Lars D. Noodén wrote:
> There is a review of OOo 2 in the technology column:
>
> http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/334983/houston_chronicle_computing_column/index.html?source=r_technology
>
>
> One item that comes up there and in other places is the comment that
> OpenDocument is not yet as widely adopted as the combined sum of the
> various MS formats.
>
> To put a different spin on it, one we could promote, is that
> OpenDocument is probably as widely supported, if not more so, if one
> counts the different applications supporting it.
>
> -Lars
> Lars Nooden ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> Software patents endanger the legal certainty of software.
> Keep them out of the EU by writing your MEP, keep the market open.
No matter how you spin it, there are at least a thousand times more
documents in MS formats than in open document formats. In 28 years of
working in I.T, I've never once had anyone request a document be sent to
them in ODF. Every (and I mean every) request I've ever had was to have
it sent in either Microsoft, rtf, or csv format.
That's not to say that open document isn't better (I happen to think it
is). It's just to say what the article says. Open document format has no
where near the acceptance (yet) of the various MS formats.
I think that at least in the near future it may replace rtf and csv as a
portable format. If it ever replaces .doc or .xls it will be a long time
from now and only if enough commercial (read "formally supported")
applications embrace it.
Chuck
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