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Today the IDA, an administration of the European Union, published the answers of his inquiry on the office suite productivity, and especially, the file formats.
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Today the IDA, an administration of the European Union, published the answers of his inquiry on the office suite productivity, and especially, the file formats.
European Union through the IDA, does support the use of open file formats and namely the Open Office file format designed by the Open Office technical committee of the OASIS industry standards body and firstly implemented by OpenOffice.org / StarOffice.
After having talked to Sun, Microsoft and IBM, as well as other organizations, the European Union wants to bring all this one step further and recommends that the Open Office file format get approved and certified by the ISO standards body.
You may find the official answers here:
[HYPERLINK@europa.eu.int]
Bottomline: Sun scored a nice one today, thanks to some very talented and discrete people inside it, and thanks to the Valoris consulting group.
IBM joins the ball. Heh, it's never too late...
And what about MS? well, after they've acknowledged that their file formats were "a bit proprietary", they're now left alone in the morning sun.
More on this here [http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/webmink]
It's a major victory for OpenOffice.org and a great day for FOSS today. Full Story |
