The approval of the OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications
(OpenDocument) standard starts a new era in business productivity
software, and levels the playing field for a whole new generation of word
processing software products.
While the majority of the software industry is gathering around this new
standard, the notable exception has been Microsoft and its
industry-dominating Microsoft Office suite of products. Whether this is
due to lack of demand, technical difficulty or specific intent does not
matter.
What does matter is that the resulting product lock-in represents one of
the most significant barriers to anyone wishing to migrate to OpenDocument
products like OpenOffice.org and other products, both free and
commercial. It is hard to justify moving away from Office if the rest of
the Office-using world can't read your documents.
And as the use of OpenDocument files becomes more common, the lack of
OpenDocument capabilities will be an increasing headache for Microsoft
Office users unable to access these types of documents.
OpenOpenOffice (or simply "O3") is the quickest and most immediate
solution for these problems, bringing OpenDocument support to Microsoft
Office users. More importantly, it is a simple and elegant solution that
can be implemented in weeks instead of months or years, solving the most
pressing needs of Office users ASAP.
http://o3.phase-n.com/index.html
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Alexandro Colorado
CoLeader of OpenOffice.org ES
http://es.openoffice.org
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