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OpenOffice.org being distributed to Portuguese schools
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| I was just made aware of this Portuguese blog entry. CDs including
| OpenOffice.org will be distributed to Portuguese schools again. Great news!
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http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/openoffice_org_being_distributed_to
Another ODF-compliant office suite:
Ashampoo Office 2008 review
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| Ashampoo TextMaker 2008 enjoys a decent number of formatting options, and
| useful tools such as a synonym button, as well as the usual suspects: tabs
| and spellcheck included. Import from and export to Microsoft Word and
| OpenDocument files is pain free.
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http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/reviews/index.cfm?reviewid=2181
OASIS Launches SAML XML.org Online Community
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| The OASIS international standards consortium today introduced a new XML.org
| online community web site dedicated to supporting the Security Assertion
| Markup Language (SAML). The site (http://saml.xml.org) will serve as the
| official information resource for the SAML OASIS Standard, which provides an
| XML-based framework for online partners to exchange user authentication,
| entitlement, and attribute information.
|
| [...]
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| SAML XML.org is the newest addition to the XML.org family of web sites
| devoted to supporting communities around open standards; other sites are
| devoted to BPEL, DITA, ebXML, IDtrust, OpenDocument, and UDDI.
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http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20080617005930&newsLang=en
http://tinyurl.com/6fvwpv
A world without standards (think Vienna):
Whatever Happened to Greek Civilisation?
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| You probably don't care much about the Greek National Land Registry unless
| you're Greek or have land in Greece, but I think we can all be saddened by
| the following from its site:
|
| Η εφαρμογή είναι διαθέσιμη αποκλειστικά για Internet Explorer.
|
| [Google Translate: The application is available exclusively for Internet
| Explorer.]
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2008/06/whatever-happened-to-greek-civilisation.html
Recent:
French hospital migrates to OpenOffice.org
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| According to this French article, the French hospital of Thiers is migrating
| its 150 desktops to OpenOffice.org in order to spend money on training
| instead of licenses.
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http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/french_hospital_migrates_to_openoffice
Huge Success for the ODF Community
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| OpenOffice.org, which is just one implementation of ODF, is currently being
| downloaded more than 1.2M times per week and being distributed by popular
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| hardware products like the Asus Eee PC. Government organizations around the
| world are adopting OpenOffice.org and/or ODF and have started to help each
| other with their adoption challenges. Thus, ODF has become a "market force"
| that can't be ignored anymore. Thus, again, congratulations and thank you to
| all the people who have contributed to the success of OpenOffice.org and ODF
| so far! Well done!
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http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/huge_success_for_the_odf
ISO process slammed
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| Rob Weir, co-chairman of the OASIS Open Document Format (ODF) technical
| committee, says the blatant committee backing around the world to have the
| standard ratified was disconcerting. He says in several countries, countries
| voted yes at the last minute and were “heard of no more. It makes a mockery
| of the system.”
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http://www.itweb.co.za/sections/software/2008/0806131046.asp?O=FPTOP&S=Legal%20View&A=LEG
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