Mr. Galka Hard stats for use of ODF are not available. It would seem that several European municipal governments have standardized, or are about to, on ODF for submittal and storage of documents and data. The EU does, in fact, embrace the ODF: http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/3428/556 http://europa.eu.int/idabc/en/document/3761
In the Americas, the various local and federal government agencies of Brazil seems to be leading the path to ODF (at least according to several former classmates that work south of the Amazon). While I have read of several U.S. and Canadian cities planning to convert to ODF, but I have knowledge of only two municipal governments that officially use ODF. There is much uncertainty in the U.S. (on use of other than MS Office formats) because of the powerful political influence exerted by some large software companies. It is known that some corporate and governmental IT departments quietly convert data and documents without any official policy statements. One of the most egregious forms of platform-specific data format (at least to me) is UL's presentation of their EIS and plastic databases. I have submitted requests to UL web admins that their CGI servers not emit application or platform-dependent code, but they do not seem to care about non-standard XML/HTML and JavaScript. Also, Mr. Woodgate commented that "either people have 100% commitment or nearly 0%". I have noted the emotional attachment that some people develop for their Macs, but was not aware that there were "radical" supporters of the ODF. This is not good; data and file format selection must be based on the most practical long-term solution for the greatest number of users. I see no reason for companies to convert to ODF where there is a competent IT department that understands these issues. I see many reasons that governments and tax-supported institutions should discontinue use of "closed" data formats. luck, Brian > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Piotr > Galka > Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 6:08 AM > To: EMC-PSTC; John Woodgate > Subject: Re: Wordwide Frequencies and Power Levels for 802.11 > > John, > > > Brian posted a number of URLs where information on Open > Document Format > > can be obtained. But my comment about it is, I think, > justified insofar as > > it is by no means widely used at present. > > > > You may be right, but may be wrong. I have no statistic > information, but > some arguments only. > In our small firm we always had Word and Excel at only one > PC. We had it > only because people used to send files in that formats > (always the latest > version). I always supposed someone pays them for making us > to buy the new, > and new, and new Microsoft Office version :-). > But Open Office we have at all 12 of our PCs. > So our small statistic is 12:1 for ODF :-) > > Piotr Galka - This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to [email protected] Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas [email protected] Mike Cantwell [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: [email protected] David Heald: [email protected] All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________
