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Log: Planet run at Thu Apr 30 18:00:13 BST 2009 File Changes: Directory: /marketing/www/planet/ ================================= File [changed]: atom.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/atom.xml?r1=1.1811&r2=1.1812 Delta lines: +87 -26 --------------------- --- atom.xml 2009-04-30 11:00:55+0000 1.1811 +++ atom.xml 2009-04-30 17:00:55+0000 1.1812 @@ -5,9 +5,91 @@ <link rel="self" href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/atom.xml"/> <link href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/"/> <id>http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/atom.xml</id> - <updated>2009-04-30T11:00:23+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-04-30T17:00:22+00:00</updated> <generator uri="http://www.planetplanet.org/";>Planet/2.0 +http://www.planetplanet.org</generator> + <entry xml:lang="en"> + <title type="html">Preliminary thoughts on the implementation of ODF in Microsoft Office.</title> + <link href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/04/30/preliminary-thoughts-on-the-implementation-of-odf-in-microsoft-office/"/> + <id>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/04/30/preliminary-thoughts-on-the-implementation-of-odf-in-microsoft-office/</id> + <updated>2009-04-30T12:09:52+00:00</updated> + <content type="html"><p>To keep this post simple and clear, I would like to clarify two things: First, I have not tested the SP2 of Microsoft Office 2007, and hence I cannot relate my own experience of Microsoft&#8217;s implementation of ODF. Second, I do believe that given the information we have, and as a general principle, we should focus on the quality of the implementation. Simply put, Microsoft&#8217;s ODF implementation does either work well or does not work / is of poor quality. I will be satisfied, and so will every user of Microsoft Office, to have a good implementation of ODF inside Microsoft Office.</p> +<p>This being said, it is known that pundits were able to get some early information on <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/dmahugh/">Doug Mahugh</a>&#8217;s weblog a few months ago about how MS Office 2007 would implement ODF. The negative side, if we read Doug&#8217;s blog is that there are some inherent limitations to the implementation that seem to make Microsoft Office a clear inferior ODF capable office suite than others. At that time I found it hard to believe and believe that this would be more damageable to ODF than to Microsoft Office. I also pointed out it was the first time Microsoft had taken a sorry tone to speak about one of its products. I will however refrain to make any particular comment at this stage: Clearly, this moment is historical, and it is a happy one. Critics, if they prove to exist and be valid, will be voiced later. So perhaps the only thing to conclude with is the press release of <a href="http://www.opendocsociety.org/">the OpenDoc Society</a> that I have enclosed below:</p> +<p><em>&#8220;ODF support in Office 2007 is end of an era&#8221;<br /> +Future proof format now available to entire market</em></p> +<p>Amsterdam, April 29 2009</p> +<p>OpenDoc Society congratulates Microsoft Corporation Inc. with the<br /> +release yesterday of Microsoftâs Service Pack 2 for Office 2007,<br /> +Microsoft Office is the latest of the major Office suites to offer<br /> +native support for the OpenDocument Format (ODF). OpenDoc Society is<br /> +happy to see Microsoft finally join vendors and open source communities<br /> +like IBM, Google, Sun Microsystems, Novell, KOffice, Corel and Adobe -<br /> +which already made the switch to ODF in recent years.</p> +<p>&#8220;In a way it is the end of an era,&#8221; says Bert Bakker, chair of OpenDoc<br /> +Society. &#8220;Vendor based formats have dominated the last twenty five<br /> +years of IT to the extreme point where billions of investments in<br /> +software - even in entirely unrelated areas - were steered not by<br /> +technical and security considerations but by what was used on the<br /> +desktop productivity suites.&#8221;</p> +<p>The new released SP2 finally brings native ODF 1.1 support to Microsoft<br /> +Office 2007 (meaning it can fully replace the deprecated .doc, .docx,<br /> +xls, .xslx, ppt and pptx formats) after two years of &#8216;unofficial&#8217;<br /> +support through an add-in which was initiated and paid for (but not<br /> +formally supported) by Microsoft. It is especially important for any<br /> +Microsoft customers which adopted the deprecated Office 2007-specific<br /> +formats docx, xlsx and pptx - which were introduced as default formats<br /> +when Office 2007 appeared. Since these have meanwhile been superceded,<br /> +use of those formats is not to be recommended.</p> +<p>Many governments have actively been adopting an open standards policy,<br /> +with ODF being one of the prime drivers. Governments and customers have<br /> +grown increasingly vocal in making it clear to vendors that they would<br /> +take their business elsewhere if they did not move to support open<br /> +standards. &#8216;Moving to ODF even if you stay with the same vendor an even<br /> +the same product is plainly good IT governance, as it provides better<br /> +security, compliance mechanisms and usability while at the same time<br /> +diminishing the depencies on any single vendor&#8221;, says Michiel Leenaars,<br /> +vice-chair of OpenDoc Society. &#8220;We recommend companies, governments,<br /> +and users at large to just make the switch and set the new format as<br /> +their default as soon as possible - let&#8217;s put a halt to the creation of<br /> +&#8216;new&#8217; legacy documents as soon as possible. We&#8217;ll thank ourselves for<br /> +doing it later&#8221;.</p> +<p>With the last of the major vendors moving to ODF, OpenDoc Society notes<br /> +that this clears the way for a lot of innovation in both offline and<br /> +online office tools that were made possible by the Open Document<br /> +Format. Most notably the Society expects to see the rise of smart<br /> +documents that merge online &#8216;web of data&#8217;-like features with more<br /> +traditional desktop use. OpenDoc Society intends to actively help<br /> +these new products and services to converge and interoperate better on<br /> +behalf of users and consumers.</p> +<p>With all major office solutions now being able to use ODF, the focus of<br /> +software producers and customers should be on getting products that<br /> +generate or process documents - like electronic mail filters, content<br /> +management systems, document repositories and BI tools - to take<br /> +advantage of the many opportunities ODF brings.</p> +<p>OpenDoc Society strongly urges large document users like governments<br /> +and companies, as well as individuals, to look at the currently<br /> +proposed ODF 1.2 specification as well as the call for input for the<br /> +next major version of ODF that will follow the pending release of 1.2.<br /> +The OASIS Technical Committee currently welcomes any comments on its<br /> +committee draft [2].</p> +<p>[1] http://www.officeshots.org<br /> +[2] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/documents.php?wg_abbrev=office<br /> +</p> +<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=123&akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_123" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> +</p></content> + <author> + <name>Charles Schulz</name> + <uri>http://standardsandfreedom.net</uri> + </author> + <source> + <title type="html">Moved by Freedom - Powered by Standards » OOo Postings</title> + <subtitle type="html">A weblog by Charles-H. Schulz.</subtitle> + <link rel="self" href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/category/ooo-postings/feed"/> + <id>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/category/ooo-postings/feed</id> + <updated>2009-04-30T17:00:16+00:00</updated> + </source> + </entry> + <entry> <title type="html">Change Impress to improve all of OOo</title> <link href="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/change_impress_to_improve_all"/> @@ -29,7 +111,7 @@ <title type="html">jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader</title> <link rel="self" href="http://www.google.co.uk/reader/public/atom/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast"/> <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast</id> - <updated>2009-04-30T11:00:16+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-04-30T17:00:17+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -71,7 +153,7 @@ <title type="html">jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader</title> <link rel="self" href="http://www.google.co.uk/reader/public/atom/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast"/> <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast</id> - <updated>2009-04-30T11:00:16+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-04-30T17:00:17+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -124,7 +206,7 @@ <title type="html">jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader</title> <link rel="self" href="http://www.google.co.uk/reader/public/atom/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast"/> <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast</id> - <updated>2009-04-30T11:00:16+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-04-30T17:00:17+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -250,7 +332,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">A weblog by Charles-H. Schulz.</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/category/ooo-postings/feed"/> <id>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/category/ooo-postings/feed</id> - <updated>2009-04-27T17:00:14+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-04-30T17:00:16+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -471,25 +553,4 @@ </source> </entry> - <entry xml:lang="en"> - <title type="html">OpenOffice.org 3.1 with 100 Languages</title> - <link href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/1095"/> - <id>http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=1095</id> - <updated>2009-04-07T15:34:45+00:00</updated> - <content type="html"><p>Frank Mau writes <a href="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/pootle_and_openoffice_org"><em>Pootle and OpenOffice.org</em></a>, in which he discusses continued refinements to the translation tools available for OOo native language communities. Among those tools is <a href="http://tools.services.openoffice.org/">Pootle</a>, which helps to manage translation project teams.</p> -<p>Of interest to the whole community, is the vast breadth of translations that have already been completed for the development branch of OpenOffice 3.1. Mau announces:</p> -<blockquote><p>OpenOffice.org 3.1 is knocking on the door and we are proud to deliver more languages than ever before. I&#8217;ve seen near by 100 full install-sets for m5 testing! Great to see this engagement by the community, big thanks to everyone.</p></blockquote></content> - <author> - <name>Benjamin Horst</name> - <uri>http://www.solidoffice.com</uri> - </author> - <source> - <title type="html">SolidOffice » OpenOffice.org</title> - <subtitle type="html">Home of The Tiny Guide to OpenOffice.org</subtitle> - <link rel="self" href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/category/openofficeorg/feed"/> - <id>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/category/openofficeorg/feed</id> - <updated>2009-04-29T17:00:20+00:00</updated> - </source> - </entry> - </feed> File [changed]: index.html Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/index.html?r1=1.1818&r2=1.1819 Delta lines: +79 -18 --------------------- --- index.html 2009-04-30 11:00:56+0000 1.1818 +++ index.html 2009-04-30 17:00:55+0000 1.1819 @@ -36,8 +36,86 @@ <a href="rss20.xml"><img src="rss2.gif" alt="Link to RSS 2 feed" /></a> </div> -<p><em>Bloggings on marketing topics by project members - see <a href="#disclaimer">disclaimer</a>.<br />Last updated: April 30, 2009 11:00 AM GMT</em></p> +<p><em>Bloggings on marketing topics by project members - see <a href="#disclaimer">disclaimer</a>.<br />Last updated: April 30, 2009 05:00 PM GMT</em></p> +<h2>April 30, 2009</h2> +<h3> +<a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net"; title="Moved by Freedom - Powered by Standards » OOo Postings"> +Charles Schulz</a> : +<a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/04/30/preliminary-thoughts-on-the-implementation-of-odf-in-microsoft-office/";> +Preliminary thoughts on the implementation of ODF in Microsoft Office.</a> +</h3> +<p> +<p>To keep this post simple and clear, I would like to clarify two things: First, I have not tested the SP2 of Microsoft Office 2007, and hence I cannot relate my own experience of Microsoft’s implementation of ODF. Second, I do believe that given the information we have, and as a general principle, we should focus on the quality of the implementation. Simply put, Microsoft’s ODF implementation does either work well or does not work / is of poor quality. I will be satisfied, and so will every user of Microsoft Office, to have a good implementation of ODF inside Microsoft Office.</p> +<p>This being said, it is known that pundits were able to get some early information on <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/dmahugh/";>Doug Mahugh</a>’s weblog a few months ago about how MS Office 2007 would implement ODF. The negative side, if we read Doug’s blog is that there are some inherent limitations to the implementation that seem to make Microsoft Office a clear inferior ODF capable office suite than others. At that time I found it hard to believe and believe that this would be more damageable to ODF than to Microsoft Office. I also pointed out it was the first time Microsoft had taken a sorry tone to speak about one of its products. I will however refrain to make any particular comment at this stage: Clearly, this moment is historical, and it is a happy one. Critics, if they prove to exist and be valid, will be voiced later. So perhaps the only thing to conclude with is the press release of <a href="http://www.opendocsociety.org/";>the OpenDoc Society</a> that I have enclosed below:</p> +<p><em>“ODF support in Office 2007 is end of an era”<br /> +Future proof format now available to entire market</em></p> +<p>Amsterdam, April 29 2009</p> +<p>OpenDoc Society congratulates Microsoft Corporation Inc. with the<br /> +release yesterday of Microsoftâs Service Pack 2 for Office 2007,<br /> +Microsoft Office is the latest of the major Office suites to offer<br /> +native support for the OpenDocument Format (ODF). OpenDoc Society is<br /> +happy to see Microsoft finally join vendors and open source communities<br /> +like IBM, Google, Sun Microsystems, Novell, KOffice, Corel and Adobe -<br /> +which already made the switch to ODF in recent years.</p> +<p>“In a way it is the end of an era,” says Bert Bakker, chair of OpenDoc<br /> +Society. “Vendor based formats have dominated the last twenty five<br /> +years of IT to the extreme point where billions of investments in<br /> +software - even in entirely unrelated areas - were steered not by<br /> +technical and security considerations but by what was used on the<br /> +desktop productivity suites.”</p> +<p>The new released SP2 finally brings native ODF 1.1 support to Microsoft<br /> +Office 2007 (meaning it can fully replace the deprecated .doc, .docx,<br /> +xls, .xslx, ppt and pptx formats) after two years of ‘unofficial’<br /> +support through an add-in which was initiated and paid for (but not<br /> +formally supported) by Microsoft. It is especially important for any<br /> +Microsoft customers which adopted the deprecated Office 2007-specific<br /> +formats docx, xlsx and pptx - which were introduced as default formats<br /> +when Office 2007 appeared. Since these have meanwhile been superceded,<br /> +use of those formats is not to be recommended.</p> +<p>Many governments have actively been adopting an open standards policy,<br /> +with ODF being one of the prime drivers. Governments and customers have<br /> +grown increasingly vocal in making it clear to vendors that they would<br /> +take their business elsewhere if they did not move to support open<br /> +standards. ‘Moving to ODF even if you stay with the same vendor an even<br /> +the same product is plainly good IT governance, as it provides better<br /> +security, compliance mechanisms and usability while at the same time<br /> +diminishing the depencies on any single vendor”, says Michiel Leenaars,<br /> +vice-chair of OpenDoc Society. “We recommend companies, governments,<br /> +and users at large to just make the switch and set the new format as<br /> +their default as soon as possible - let’s put a halt to the creation of<br /> +‘new’ legacy documents as soon as possible. We’ll thank ourselves for<br /> +doing it later”.</p> +<p>With the last of the major vendors moving to ODF, OpenDoc Society notes<br /> +that this clears the way for a lot of innovation in both offline and<br /> +online office tools that were made possible by the Open Document<br /> +Format. Most notably the Society expects to see the rise of smart<br /> +documents that merge online ‘web of data’-like features with more<br /> +traditional desktop use. OpenDoc Society intends to actively help<br /> +these new products and services to converge and interoperate better on<br /> +behalf of users and consumers.</p> +<p>With all major office solutions now being able to use ODF, the focus of<br /> +software producers and customers should be on getting products that<br /> +generate or process documents - like electronic mail filters, content<br /> +management systems, document repositories and BI tools - to take<br /> +advantage of the many opportunities ODF brings.</p> +<p>OpenDoc Society strongly urges large document users like governments<br /> +and companies, as well as individuals, to look at the currently<br /> +proposed ODF 1.2 specification as well as the call for input for the<br /> +next major version of ODF that will follow the pending release of 1.2.<br /> +The OASIS Technical Committee currently welcomes any comments on its<br /> +committee draft [2].</p> +<p>[1] http://www.officeshots.org<br /> +[2] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/documents.php?wg_abbrev=office<br /> +</p> +<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=123&akst_action=share-this"; title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_123" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> +</p></p> +<p> +<em><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/04/30/preliminary-thoughts-on-the-implementation-of-odf-in-microsoft-office/";>by Charles at April 30, 2009 12:09 PM GMT</a></em> +</p> +<br /> +<hr /> +<br /> <h2>April 29, 2009</h2> <h3> <a href="" title="jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader"> @@ -415,23 +493,6 @@ <br /> <hr /> <br /> -<h2>April 07, 2009</h2> -<h3> -<a href="http://www.solidoffice.com"; title="SolidOffice » OpenOffice.org"> -Benjamin Horst</a> : -<a href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/1095";> -OpenOffice.org 3.1 with 100 Languages</a> -</h3> -<p> -<p>Frank Mau writes <a href="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/pootle_and_openoffice_org";><em>Pootle and OpenOffice.org</em></a>, in which he discusses continued refinements to the translation tools available for OOo native language communities. Among those tools is <a href="http://tools.services.openoffice.org/";>Pootle</a>, which helps to manage translation project teams.</p> -<p>Of interest to the whole community, is the vast breadth of translations that have already been completed for the development branch of OpenOffice 3.1. Mau announces:</p> -<blockquote><p>OpenOffice.org 3.1 is knocking on the door and we are proud to deliver more languages than ever before. I’ve seen near by 100 full install-sets for m5 testing! Great to see this engagement by the community, big thanks to everyone.</p></blockquote></p> -<p> -<em><a href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/1095";>by Benjamin Horst at April 07, 2009 03:34 PM GMT</a></em> -</p> -<br /> -<hr /> -<br /> <a id="disclaimer" name="disclaimer"></a> <p><em>Disclaimer: all views expressed on this page are those of the individual contributors, and may not reflect the views of the File [changed]: opml.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/opml.xml?r1=1.1811&r2=1.1812 Delta lines: +1 -1 ------------------- --- opml.xml 2009-04-30 11:00:56+0000 1.1811 +++ opml.xml 2009-04-30 17:00:55+0000 1.1812 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ <opml version="1.1"> <head> <title>Marketing Planet</title> - <dateModified>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 11:00:23 +0000</dateModified> + <dateModified>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:00:23 +0000</dateModified> <ownerName>Marketing Project</ownerName> <ownerEmail>[email protected]</ownerEmail> </head> File [changed]: rss10.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/rss10.xml?r1=1.716&r2=1.717 Delta lines: +70 -9 -------------------- --- rss10.xml 2009-04-29 17:00:55+0000 1.716 +++ rss10.xml 2009-04-30 17:00:55+0000 1.717 @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ <items> <rdf:Seq> + <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/04/30/preliminary-thoughts-on-the-implementation-of-odf-in-microsoft-office/"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/c67a26f1ea195d2a" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/6817d3cc21ef7139" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=1132"; /> @@ -32,11 +33,79 @@ <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=1106"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-6095230073761259370" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=1101"; /> - <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=1095"; /> </rdf:Seq> </items> </channel> +<item rdf:about="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/04/30/preliminary-thoughts-on-the-implementation-of-odf-in-microsoft-office/";> + <title>Charles Schulz: Preliminary thoughts on the implementation of ODF in Microsoft Office.</title> + <link>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/04/30/preliminary-thoughts-on-the-implementation-of-odf-in-microsoft-office/</link> + <content:encoded><p>To keep this post simple and clear, I would like to clarify two things: First, I have not tested the SP2 of Microsoft Office 2007, and hence I cannot relate my own experience of Microsoft&#8217;s implementation of ODF. Second, I do believe that given the information we have, and as a general principle, we should focus on the quality of the implementation. Simply put, Microsoft&#8217;s ODF implementation does either work well or does not work / is of poor quality. I will be satisfied, and so will every user of Microsoft Office, to have a good implementation of ODF inside Microsoft Office.</p> +<p>This being said, it is known that pundits were able to get some early information on <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/dmahugh/">Doug Mahugh</a>&#8217;s weblog a few months ago about how MS Office 2007 would implement ODF. The negative side, if we read Doug&#8217;s blog is that there are some inherent limitations to the implementation that seem to make Microsoft Office a clear inferior ODF capable office suite than others. At that time I found it hard to believe and believe that this would be more damageable to ODF than to Microsoft Office. I also pointed out it was the first time Microsoft had taken a sorry tone to speak about one of its products. I will however refrain to make any particular comment at this stage: Clearly, this moment is historical, and it is a happy one. Critics, if they prove to exist and be valid, will be voiced later. So perhaps the only thing to conclude with is the press release of <a href="http://www.opendocsociety.org/">the OpenDoc Society</a> that I have enclosed below:</p> +<p><em>&#8220;ODF support in Office 2007 is end of an era&#8221;<br /> +Future proof format now available to entire market</em></p> +<p>Amsterdam, April 29 2009</p> +<p>OpenDoc Society congratulates Microsoft Corporation Inc. with the<br /> +release yesterday of Microsoftâs Service Pack 2 for Office 2007,<br /> +Microsoft Office is the latest of the major Office suites to offer<br /> +native support for the OpenDocument Format (ODF). OpenDoc Society is<br /> +happy to see Microsoft finally join vendors and open source communities<br /> +like IBM, Google, Sun Microsystems, Novell, KOffice, Corel and Adobe -<br /> +which already made the switch to ODF in recent years.</p> +<p>&#8220;In a way it is the end of an era,&#8221; says Bert Bakker, chair of OpenDoc<br /> +Society. &#8220;Vendor based formats have dominated the last twenty five<br /> +years of IT to the extreme point where billions of investments in<br /> +software - even in entirely unrelated areas - were steered not by<br /> +technical and security considerations but by what was used on the<br /> +desktop productivity suites.&#8221;</p> +<p>The new released SP2 finally brings native ODF 1.1 support to Microsoft<br /> +Office 2007 (meaning it can fully replace the deprecated .doc, .docx,<br /> +xls, .xslx, ppt and pptx formats) after two years of &#8216;unofficial&#8217;<br /> +support through an add-in which was initiated and paid for (but not<br /> +formally supported) by Microsoft. It is especially important for any<br /> +Microsoft customers which adopted the deprecated Office 2007-specific<br /> +formats docx, xlsx and pptx - which were introduced as default formats<br /> +when Office 2007 appeared. Since these have meanwhile been superceded,<br /> +use of those formats is not to be recommended.</p> +<p>Many governments have actively been adopting an open standards policy,<br /> +with ODF being one of the prime drivers. Governments and customers have<br /> +grown increasingly vocal in making it clear to vendors that they would<br /> +take their business elsewhere if they did not move to support open<br /> +standards. &#8216;Moving to ODF even if you stay with the same vendor an even<br /> +the same product is plainly good IT governance, as it provides better<br /> +security, compliance mechanisms and usability while at the same time<br /> +diminishing the depencies on any single vendor&#8221;, says Michiel Leenaars,<br /> +vice-chair of OpenDoc Society. &#8220;We recommend companies, governments,<br /> +and users at large to just make the switch and set the new format as<br /> +their default as soon as possible - let&#8217;s put a halt to the creation of<br /> +&#8216;new&#8217; legacy documents as soon as possible. We&#8217;ll thank ourselves for<br /> +doing it later&#8221;.</p> +<p>With the last of the major vendors moving to ODF, OpenDoc Society notes<br /> +that this clears the way for a lot of innovation in both offline and<br /> +online office tools that were made possible by the Open Document<br /> +Format. Most notably the Society expects to see the rise of smart<br /> +documents that merge online &#8216;web of data&#8217;-like features with more<br /> +traditional desktop use. OpenDoc Society intends to actively help<br /> +these new products and services to converge and interoperate better on<br /> +behalf of users and consumers.</p> +<p>With all major office solutions now being able to use ODF, the focus of<br /> +software producers and customers should be on getting products that<br /> +generate or process documents - like electronic mail filters, content<br /> +management systems, document repositories and BI tools - to take<br /> +advantage of the many opportunities ODF brings.</p> +<p>OpenDoc Society strongly urges large document users like governments<br /> +and companies, as well as individuals, to look at the currently<br /> +proposed ODF 1.2 specification as well as the call for input for the<br /> +next major version of ODF that will follow the pending release of 1.2.<br /> +The OASIS Technical Committee currently welcomes any comments on its<br /> +committee draft [2].</p> +<p>[1] http://www.officeshots.org<br /> +[2] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/documents.php?wg_abbrev=office<br /> +</p> +<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=123&akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_123" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> +</p></content:encoded> + <dc:date>2009-04-30T12:09:52+00:00</dc:date> +</item> <item rdf:about="tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/c67a26f1ea195d2a"> <title>GullFOSS: Change Impress to improve all of OOo</title> <link>http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/change_impress_to_improve_all</link> @@ -258,13 +327,5 @@ </span></p></content:encoded> <dc:date>2009-04-09T14:34:54+00:00</dc:date> </item> -<item rdf:about="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=1095";> - <title>Benjamin Horst: OpenOffice.org 3.1 with 100 Languages</title> - <link>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/1095</link> - <content:encoded><p>Frank Mau writes <a href="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/pootle_and_openoffice_org"><em>Pootle and OpenOffice.org</em></a>, in which he discusses continued refinements to the translation tools available for OOo native language communities. Among those tools is <a href="http://tools.services.openoffice.org/">Pootle</a>, which helps to manage translation project teams.</p> -<p>Of interest to the whole community, is the vast breadth of translations that have already been completed for the development branch of OpenOffice 3.1. Mau announces:</p> -<blockquote><p>OpenOffice.org 3.1 is knocking on the door and we are proud to deliver more languages than ever before. I&#8217;ve seen near by 100 full install-sets for m5 testing! Great to see this engagement by the community, big thanks to everyone.</p></blockquote></content:encoded> - <dc:date>2009-04-07T15:34:45+00:00</dc:date> -</item> </rdf:RDF> File [changed]: rss20.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/rss20.xml?r1=1.716&r2=1.717 Delta lines: +70 -9 -------------------- --- rss20.xml 2009-04-29 17:00:56+0000 1.716 +++ rss20.xml 2009-04-30 17:00:55+0000 1.717 @@ -8,6 +8,76 @@ <description>Marketing Planet - http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/</description> <item> + <title>Charles Schulz: Preliminary thoughts on the implementation of ODF in Microsoft Office.</title> + <guid>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/04/30/preliminary-thoughts-on-the-implementation-of-odf-in-microsoft-office/</guid> + <link>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/04/30/preliminary-thoughts-on-the-implementation-of-odf-in-microsoft-office/</link> + <description><p>To keep this post simple and clear, I would like to clarify two things: First, I have not tested the SP2 of Microsoft Office 2007, and hence I cannot relate my own experience of Microsoft&#8217;s implementation of ODF. Second, I do believe that given the information we have, and as a general principle, we should focus on the quality of the implementation. Simply put, Microsoft&#8217;s ODF implementation does either work well or does not work / is of poor quality. I will be satisfied, and so will every user of Microsoft Office, to have a good implementation of ODF inside Microsoft Office.</p> +<p>This being said, it is known that pundits were able to get some early information on <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/dmahugh/">Doug Mahugh</a>&#8217;s weblog a few months ago about how MS Office 2007 would implement ODF. The negative side, if we read Doug&#8217;s blog is that there are some inherent limitations to the implementation that seem to make Microsoft Office a clear inferior ODF capable office suite than others. At that time I found it hard to believe and believe that this would be more damageable to ODF than to Microsoft Office. I also pointed out it was the first time Microsoft had taken a sorry tone to speak about one of its products. I will however refrain to make any particular comment at this stage: Clearly, this moment is historical, and it is a happy one. Critics, if they prove to exist and be valid, will be voiced later. So perhaps the only thing to conclude with is the press release of <a href="http://www.opendocsociety.org/">the OpenDoc Society</a> that I have enclosed below:</p> +<p><em>&#8220;ODF support in Office 2007 is end of an era&#8221;<br /> +Future proof format now available to entire market</em></p> +<p>Amsterdam, April 29 2009</p> +<p>OpenDoc Society congratulates Microsoft Corporation Inc. with the<br /> +release yesterday of Microsoftâs Service Pack 2 for Office 2007,<br /> +Microsoft Office is the latest of the major Office suites to offer<br /> +native support for the OpenDocument Format (ODF). OpenDoc Society is<br /> +happy to see Microsoft finally join vendors and open source communities<br /> +like IBM, Google, Sun Microsystems, Novell, KOffice, Corel and Adobe -<br /> +which already made the switch to ODF in recent years.</p> +<p>&#8220;In a way it is the end of an era,&#8221; says Bert Bakker, chair of OpenDoc<br /> +Society. &#8220;Vendor based formats have dominated the last twenty five<br /> +years of IT to the extreme point where billions of investments in<br /> +software - even in entirely unrelated areas - were steered not by<br /> +technical and security considerations but by what was used on the<br /> +desktop productivity suites.&#8221;</p> +<p>The new released SP2 finally brings native ODF 1.1 support to Microsoft<br /> +Office 2007 (meaning it can fully replace the deprecated .doc, .docx,<br /> +xls, .xslx, ppt and pptx formats) after two years of &#8216;unofficial&#8217;<br /> +support through an add-in which was initiated and paid for (but not<br /> +formally supported) by Microsoft. It is especially important for any<br /> +Microsoft customers which adopted the deprecated Office 2007-specific<br /> +formats docx, xlsx and pptx - which were introduced as default formats<br /> +when Office 2007 appeared. Since these have meanwhile been superceded,<br /> +use of those formats is not to be recommended.</p> +<p>Many governments have actively been adopting an open standards policy,<br /> +with ODF being one of the prime drivers. Governments and customers have<br /> +grown increasingly vocal in making it clear to vendors that they would<br /> +take their business elsewhere if they did not move to support open<br /> +standards. &#8216;Moving to ODF even if you stay with the same vendor an even<br /> +the same product is plainly good IT governance, as it provides better<br /> +security, compliance mechanisms and usability while at the same time<br /> +diminishing the depencies on any single vendor&#8221;, says Michiel Leenaars,<br /> +vice-chair of OpenDoc Society. &#8220;We recommend companies, governments,<br /> +and users at large to just make the switch and set the new format as<br /> +their default as soon as possible - let&#8217;s put a halt to the creation of<br /> +&#8216;new&#8217; legacy documents as soon as possible. We&#8217;ll thank ourselves for<br /> +doing it later&#8221;.</p> +<p>With the last of the major vendors moving to ODF, OpenDoc Society notes<br /> +that this clears the way for a lot of innovation in both offline and<br /> +online office tools that were made possible by the Open Document<br /> +Format. Most notably the Society expects to see the rise of smart<br /> +documents that merge online &#8216;web of data&#8217;-like features with more<br /> +traditional desktop use. OpenDoc Society intends to actively help<br /> +these new products and services to converge and interoperate better on<br /> +behalf of users and consumers.</p> +<p>With all major office solutions now being able to use ODF, the focus of<br /> +software producers and customers should be on getting products that<br /> +generate or process documents - like electronic mail filters, content<br /> +management systems, document repositories and BI tools - to take<br /> +advantage of the many opportunities ODF brings.</p> +<p>OpenDoc Society strongly urges large document users like governments<br /> +and companies, as well as individuals, to look at the currently<br /> +proposed ODF 1.2 specification as well as the call for input for the<br /> +next major version of ODF that will follow the pending release of 1.2.<br /> +The OASIS Technical Committee currently welcomes any comments on its<br /> +committee draft [2].</p> +<p>[1] http://www.officeshots.org<br /> +[2] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/documents.php?wg_abbrev=office<br /> +</p> +<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=123&akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_123" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> +</p></description> + <pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:09:52 +0000</pubDate> +</item> +<item> <title>GullFOSS: Change Impress to improve all of OOo</title> <guid>tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/c67a26f1ea195d2a</guid> <link>http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/change_impress_to_improve_all</link> @@ -244,15 +314,6 @@ </span></p></description> <pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:34:54 +0000</pubDate> </item> -<item> - <title>Benjamin Horst: OpenOffice.org 3.1 with 100 Languages</title> - <guid>http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=1095</guid> - <link>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/1095</link> - <description><p>Frank Mau writes <a href="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/pootle_and_openoffice_org"><em>Pootle and OpenOffice.org</em></a>, in which he discusses continued refinements to the translation tools available for OOo native language communities. Among those tools is <a href="http://tools.services.openoffice.org/">Pootle</a>, which helps to manage translation project teams.</p> -<p>Of interest to the whole community, is the vast breadth of translations that have already been completed for the development branch of OpenOffice 3.1. Mau announces:</p> -<blockquote><p>OpenOffice.org 3.1 is knocking on the door and we are proud to deliver more languages than ever before. I&#8217;ve seen near by 100 full install-sets for m5 testing! Great to see this engagement by the community, big thanks to everyone.</p></blockquote></description> - <pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:34:45 +0000</pubDate> -</item> </channel> </rss> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
