The Evolving ODF Environment Part II: Spotlight on OpenOffice

Posted by Andy_Updegrove on May 13, 2006 6:13 PM EDT
ConsortiumInfo.org; By Andy Updegrove
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In this second in a series of interviews with the major open source and proprietary implementations of ODF, I learn from OpenOffice.org's Louis Suarez-Potts and John McNeesh how OO compares to the competition, wherein lie its strengths, and where it will head in the future.

The purpose of this series of interviews (the first was with KOffice) is to provide a comparative picture of the evolving ODF landscape, highlighting the strengths (and weaknesses) of each current implementation, so that potential users can judge which alternative is right for them. At the same time, it will illustrate the fact that a standard such as ODF, far from limiting innovation, can instead enable a rich set of products that distinguish themselves with additional features to attract users to their particular flavor of the same software tool.

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