OpenDocument wins more fans
News On Thursday the ODF Alliance announced that more than 280 organisations and industry bodies have joined up to support the format. The news from Malaysia continues momentum towards ODF that we are seeing around the globe," said Marino Marcich...
[July 28, 2006, 13:55]
Google joins OpenDocument group
News The group, the ODF Alliance, was formed to solve the problem of users getting locked out of files when they are using an application other than the one the document was created with. Google, whose Writely online word processing program supports ODF...
[July 13, 2006, 8:45]
OpenDocument alliance 'optimistic' about ISO certification
News The ODF Alliance is now actively supporting adoption of the Open Document Format as a worldwide standard of the International Organization for Standardisation (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC)," the group said in a...
[April 20, 2006, 12:05]
Group launched to promote OpenDocument in government
News The ODF Alliance will work to enable governments around the world to have greater control over and direct management of their documents, now and forever," said Ken Wasch, the president of the Software & Information Industry Association, which is a...
[March 6, 2006, 16:30]
ODF supporters hold 'Document Freedom Day'
News Inspired by the five-year-old Software Freedom Day, the Document Freedom Day (DFD) initiative is being driven by supporters of the OpenDocumentFormat Alliance (ODF Alliance) and other organisations, such as the Free Software Foundation Europe...
[March 27, 2008, 11:12]
Office 2007 adds Open Document support
News The ODF Alliance, a collection of supporters of that file format, praised its inclusion in the Office update. This action reflects the global market demand, particularly by governments, for open standards-based interoperability through ODF," ODF...
[April 29, 2009, 12:56]
Microsoft attacks IBM over ODF
News However, the ODF Alliance, a global group of organisations seeking to promote and advance the use of ODF, hit back at Microsoft's claims. It's not designed with one vendor in mind, unlike OXML," Marino Marcich, managing director of the ODF Alliance...
[May 10, 2007, 16:23]
There are more issues than just freedom of choice.
Talkback Having IBM, Sun, FSF, and ODF Alliance ram their standard down my throuat and around the world is offensive. I'm puzzled by what you are saying about "having IBM, Sun, FSF, and ODF Alliance ram their standard down" your throat, as all they're doing...
[February 1, 2008, 0:54]
Microsoft: OpenDocument is too slow
News But Marino Marcich, the managing director of the ODF Alliance, claimed this was not a fair comparison as it was not testing Open XML itself and only examined one implementation of ODF. The OpenDocument Format (ODF) has come under attack from...
[May 25, 2006, 12:45]
Massachusetts to use both Open XML and ODF
News One respondent, Marino Marcich, managing director of the ODF Alliance, said that, as OOXML is currently only compatible with Office 2007 and Microsoft applications and platforms, Massachusetts would effectively be locking itself into purchasing...
[August 2, 2007, 18:20]
Not really...
Talkback Read the ODF alliance's response to this Burton Group's report: http://www.odfalliance.org/resources/BurtonGroupResponseFinal.pdf ODF is a document format, by no stretch of the imagination does it "provide backward compatibility" as implied by the...
[January 29, 2008, 16:21]
Brazil says 'no' to Office Open XML
News The ODF Alliance and many in the open-source community argue that OOXML is proprietary. However, IBM uses and favours OpenDocument Format (ODF), an ISO-certified, open-source standard. Alkalay added that Brazil would adopt the ODF standard as an...
[August 24, 2007, 16:35]
Google: OOXML 'insufficient and unnecessary'
News The OpenDocument Format (ODF) has already been ratified by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), but Microsoft's alternative, Office Open XML (OOXML), is currently undergoing its second attempt to gain ISO approval.
[February 26, 2008, 10:38]
ISO's SC34: the Large Standard Collider
Blog At least fifteen countries have adopted ODF as a Government standard, according to the ODF Alliance, and we're coming up to the second International ODF Workshop in South Africa. Like that other Swiss science project, standards maker ISO has...
[October 7, 2008, 10:45]
IBM attacks Microsoft over SOA
News The ODF Alliance and many in the open-source community argue that OOXML is proprietary. IBM, however, uses and favours OpenDocument Format (ODF), an ISO-certified, open-source standard. Service-oriented architecture (SOA) links business...
[August 8, 2007, 13:37]
Groklaw, refuted Burton....
Talkback Having IBM, Sun, FSF, and ODF Alliance ram their standard down my throuat and around the world is offensive. And you sound like IBM or FSF :-) I just don't like being told by others what to do or what is good for me.whether it be my government, my...
[January 31, 2008, 6:37]
Brazil appeals ISO ratification of OOXML
News Jomar Silva, director general of the ODF Alliance Brasil and a member of the ABNT group that voted on OOXML, wrote in a blog post on Wednesday that OOXML supporters in ABNT had tried to block Brazil's appeal from within, by refusing to engage in...
[May 30, 2008, 15:03]
Becta takes Microsoft to the OFT
News Becta also recommended that schools delay any use of Windows Vista or Office 2007 until interoperability issues particularly with the open-source ODF format are ironed out. The event, at Liverpool Digital, was run by the Open Schools Alliance...
[October 19, 2007, 16:44]
IBM pushes into Africa with Ubuntu alliance
News According to IBM, the use of the Open Document Format (ODF) standard makes desktops using the new package cost around half as much per seat as Microsoft-based desktops, based on administration, licensing and maintenance costs.
[September 23, 2009, 16:52]
