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[News] High Worldwide Momentum for OpenDocument Format and Office Alternatives

  • Subject: [News] High Worldwide Momentum for OpenDocument Format and Office Alternatives
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 05:24:11 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
South Africa, Netherlands and Korea striding toward ODF

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| France is making the strongest move to ODF and its native office suite, 
| OpenOffice. Nearly half a million government employees are being switched to  
| OpenOffice. 
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=1351236114&rid=-50


Related:

ODF Alliance hails record growth in application support for ODF

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| In total, there are now more than two dozen ODF-supporting text, spreadsheet, 
| and presentation applications announced in the past three months 
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http://enterpriselinuxlog.blogs.techtarget.com/2007/10/26/odf-alliance-hails-record-growth-application-support-for-odf/


ODF a National Standard in Korea

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| The proposal for ODF to be accepted as a Malaysian Standard by SIRIM, 
| Department of Standards Malaysia and ultimately the Minister of Science, 
| Technology & Innovation is dormant for more than a year now. Four months 
| after the Malaysian proposal went to sleep, Italy made ODF a National 
| Standard. Eight months after that, Korea has followed suit. With this Korean 
| news, perhaps the Malaysian proposal will be awakened.     
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http://www.openmalaysiablog.com/2007/11/odf-a-national-.html


Obama Voices Support for ODF

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| OpenDocument Format supporters are welcoming presidential hopeful Sen. Barack 
| Obama's promise to put government data online in universally accessible 
| formats should he be elected.ODF a National Standard in Korea  
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2219248,00.asp


Open IT has arrived: US presidential candidates campaigning for it

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| When U.S. presidential candidates start promoting their open-source and 
| open-document platforms, you know that the open-source movement has finally 
| arrived.  
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9820884-16.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5


South Africa adopts ODF as govt standard

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| The South African government yesterday announced the adoption of OpenDocument 
| Format (ODF) as a standard for government communications. 
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http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=$id&src=digg


Malaysia formally embraces open doc format

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| The Malaysian government today announced plans to adopt open standards and 
| the Open Document Format (ODF) within the country's public sector. 
| 
| [...]
| 
| In July this year, Japan became the first country in the Asia-Pacific region 
| to embrace open software standards. Last August, the United Nations urged 
| countries in the region to adopt the ODF.  
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http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/software/0,39044164,62030781,00.htm


Government of Japan Embraces Open Software Standards

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| The OpenDocument Format Alliance (ODF Alliance), the leading organization 
| advocating for openness and accessibility to government documents and 
| information, today congratulated Japan for adopting a policy under which 
| government ministries and agencies will solicit bids from software vendors 
| whose products support internationally recognized open standards.    
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http://www.govtech.com/gt/126612?topic=117674


Netherlands Picks ODF

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| Frank Heemskerk, Minister of Economic Affairs, announced today that ODF will 
| be the standard for reading, publishing and the exchange of information for 
| all governmental organisations. The deadline is January 2009.  
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http://gotze.eu/2007/09/netherlands-picks-odf.html


OpenDocument and Qt fonts goodness

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| Like South Africa Adopts ODF, German Foreign Office comes out in favor of ODF 
| and there are various articles going over how Holland and Belgium are 
| steadilly switching governments but also schools over to ODF.  
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http://labs.trolltech.com/blogs/2007/11/10/opendocument-and-qt-fonts-goodness/


Opendocument_adoption

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| Contents
| 
|     * 1 United States
|           o 1.1 Massachusetts
|                 + 1.1.1 References
|           o 1.2 Other states and organizations in the US
|                 + 1.2.1 References
|     * 2 Europe
|           o 2.1 EU Definition of an open standard
|           o 2.2 United Kingdom
|                 + 2.2.1 Bristol City Council
|           o 2.3 Belgium
|           o 2.4 Finland
|           o 2.5 Slovakia
|     * 3 Other governments
|           o 3.1 Australia
|           o 3.2 India
|           o 3.3 Japan
|           o 3.4 Malaysia
|           o 3.5 Peru
|           o 3.6 Vietnam
|           o 3.7 Other
|     * 4 See also
|     * 5 References
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opendocument_adoption

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