Submission + - ODF Toolkit announced
Sweetshark writes: IBM and Sun joined on the OpenOffice.org conference 2008 in Beijing to announce the ODF Toolkit Union. The ODF Toolkit project will be independent of the development at OpenOffice.org, will be licensed under the liberal apache license and goes from small tools that simplify using ODF in the software development process, over an ODF validation tool up 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, Collaboration Engineering, 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 desktop of Joe Sixpack at home?
"The future of accessing and distributing software is here today," said Michael Bemmer, senior director, Collaboration Engineering, 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 desktop of Joe Sixpack at home?
