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ODF Toolkit Announced 71

Posted by Soulskill from the building-blocks dept.
Sweetshark writes "IBM and Sun joined at the 2008 OpenOffice.org conference in Beijing to announce the ODF Toolkit Union. The ODF Toolkit project will be independent of the development at OpenOffice.org, and will operate under the liberal Apache license. It goes from small tools that simplify using ODF in the software development process to large ODF Java and .NET libraries that can be used within other projects. 'The future of accessing and distributing software is here today,' said Michael Bemmer, senior director of Collaboration Engineering at Sun. 'It is no longer an acceptable business practice to have silos of office document data stored in proprietary formats. The industry has moved forward and is replacing the silos with business content, such as on-premise business applications, software solutions offered over the Internet and applications supported by mobile devices that are critical in Service Oriented Architectures.' Will this help ODF to make inroads in the business world after the successes on the desktops of users at home?"
Linux Business

Submission + - Real answers to the question (itwire.com)

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WirePosted
WirePosted writes: "A friend said to me recently that "Firefox is for the home, Internet Explorer is for the office." His comments reflect commonly found stigma and fears that free and open source software — and Linux too — are not suitable for a business environment. Let me set the record straight, giving real feedback from companies who have made the switch and don't look back."
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Submission + - Xena: Archive software using open formats

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solferino
solferino writes: "The National Archives of Australia has released Xena under GPL2. Xena detects the file format of digital objects and, where necessary, converts these objects into open formats. They define an open standard as 1) Full specification available without restriction, 2) Community developed, 3) Multiple implementations and 4) No licensing constraints. The list of file formats they detect and convert includes MS Word docs (converted to ODF). Their aim, as befits an archive, is the long term preservation of digital records."
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Submission + - National Archives of Australia releases Xena 4.0 (sourceforge.net)

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digipres
digipres writes: "The National Archives of Australia has had a long commitment to open standards, believing that standards based formats offer the best opportunity for the long term preservation of digital information. Their Xena digital preservation software is free and open source, and the version 4.0 release coincides with the publishing of the new Xena web site at http://xena.sourceforge.net/
Is this how you would treat records that must be understood 500 years from now?"

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