On Monday, Sam Hiser wrote two entries in the OpenDocument
Foundation's blog. --Jean
Running on ODF Inside of MS Office
http://fussnotes.typepad.com/fr0mat/2007/01/running_on_odf_.html
"Perfect Conversion Fidelity & The daVinci ODF Plugin for
Microsoft Office. ... Microsoft's Ecma-approved Open Office XML
file format specification is filled with contradictions to
existing ISO/IEC standards products. How do we reasonably migrate
from a world where Microsoft Office bound business processes
drive critically important economic, governmental and
organizational concerns? How do we migrate these processes to
OpenDocument ("ODF"), which is an international standard designed
for interoperability? And is there any possibility of converting
with acceptable fidelity the billions of binary documents trapped
in Microsoft's proprietary file formats? The world wants to move
to ODF XML. But the question is, 'Can This Be Done?' And
further, 'Can this be done without costly disruption to our day
to day business processes?'"
ODF as the Perfect MS Office File Format
http://fussnotes.typepad.com/fr0mat/2007/01/odf_as_the_perf.html
"What is the da Vinci plugin for Microsoft Word? Where did it
come from? How does it work? And can it really convert files
generated by Microsoft Word versions 97-2007 into fully
compliant, OpenDocument format-ready applications? Can it do so
so without disruption to bound business processes, dependent line
of business applications, and assistive technology add-ons? ...
The OpenDocument format ("ODF") is able to handle anything
Microsoft Office can throw at it, and handle it at least as well
as Microsoft's new EOOXML file formats. " Article includes "How
to Add native file support for OpenDocument to Microsoft Office"
and "How to: Interact with Microsoft business processes using
OpenDocument."
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