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Louis Suarez-Potts: OOXML Has Zero Effect On ODF
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| ODF as a default format was first adopted by OpenOffice.org (OOo). Naturally,
| when OOXML’s approval cast a doubt on ODF, we sought reactions of the OOo
| team, on how they viewed the future of OOo, ODF and OOXML. Thus, this
| interview, which was conducted over a series of e-mails, with Louis
| Suarez-Potts, community manager, OpenOffice.org.
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http://www.efytimes.com/efytimes/26489/news.htm
Spreadsheet file format performance
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| Can someone explain to me why Microsoft Office needs almost 10 minutes to
| load an ODF file that OpenOffice can load in 14 seconds?
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http://www.robweir.com/blog/2008/05/spreadsheet-file-format-performance.html
Recent:
BE, NL: governments will not use ISO OOXML
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| Asked to comment on last week's ISO approval for OOXML, Fedict's chief IT
| architect, Peter Strickx, said: "There will have to be multiple
| implementations, in order for us not to become dependent on a single vendor.
| It will also have to be compatible with open standards that we already use,
| in this case Open Document Format ODF."
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http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/7562
DE: German Foreign Ministry will not use ISO OOXML
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| In the weeks prior to the second round of votes last September,
| irregularities were reported in the standard committees in many participating
| countries. These claims continued until after the final discussion, in
| February and March this year.
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| The European Commission has started an investigation into the allegations.
| The Commission sent a letter to all EU national standards committees in
| Europe, requesting information about the process. Sources at the Commission
| declined to comment, as the investigation is on-going and no official
| position has yet been adopted.
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http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/7561
Related:
Just a coincidence?
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| According to Davide Dozza, Chairman of Associazione PLIO: "The numbers are
| exactly the same. If it's just a coincidence, it's a very strange one.
| Downloads of the Italian version of OpenOffice.org were 800.000 in 2006 and
| 1.800.000 in 2007: the difference is exactly in the million of Italians
| that - according to Microsoft - have downloaded the trial version of Office
| 2007. We think that these users have decided to switch to OpenOffice.org as
| soon as they have realized that the effort to get used to the new ribbon
| interface is higher than the effort to migrate to the open source suite. In
| 2007, the majority of information requests has been about the compatibility
| with Windows Vista, and the trend stays unchanged in 2008".
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http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2008/01/just-coincidence.html
German penal institutions looking into OpenOffice.org
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| It looks like that OpenOffice.org is also being used in areas where many of
| us don't expect it, or wouldn't research for. I have reports that some German
| penal institutions are looking into OpenOffice.org for their daily office
| work.
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http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2008/02/german-penal-institutions-looking-into.html
[German] Federal Employment Office switches to Linux
http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/102218
French police deal blow to Microsoft
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| The French paramilitary police force said Wednesday it is ditching Microsoft
| for the free Linux operating system, becoming one of the biggest
| administrations in the world to make the break.
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http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iU4Lq7tOR_WVOJLZ3IeRaIH03x6w
German county adopts OpenOffice.org
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| According to this German article, the German county "Friesland" is adoption
| open source including OpenOffice.org. OpenOffice.org will be installed on the
| majority of the client systems.
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http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/german_county_adopts_openoffice_org
German ERP software vendor adds OpenOffice.org support
http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/german_erp_software_vendor_adds
German portfolio analysis software supports OpenOffice.org
http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/german_portfolio_analysis_software_supports
Sun Adds New Twinkle to StarOffice, OpenOffice
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| Roughly 1 million copies of OpenOffice.org are downloaded per week, not
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| including distributions through vendors such as Google, Herring said.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/60767.html
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