Hi :) Please can anyone with anything to say about ODF please post comments to the consultation exercise http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20140220165521599 I think you can post even if you are not English or have trouble writing in English. Go for it!
My view is that ODF is the only format that really has true interoperability at the moment. In the future i suspect it will become MUCH more widely prevalent and files stored in almost any other format might struggle to be opened. People might be using DocX quite a bit at the moment but each version of MS Office seems to give fairly different results when trying to display files written with other versions of MS Office. The various different implementations of MS's OOXML have been given different names. 2007 and 2010 were using a "transistional OOXML" (ie NOT pure as per the ISO standard and not the same as each other). 2013 and 365 supposedly use "strict" but in the future they might well change again with no documentation describing the changes (unlike the well documented changes between ODF 1.2 and "extended". Also it's unlikely that programs can easily switch between "strict" and whichever is used as default (unlike OO and LO) Regards from Tom :) On 26 February 2014 12:36, Gordon Burgess-Parker <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 2014-02-26 at 06:59 -0500, Jim Seymour wrote: > >> We've avoided IT falling under control of the bean counters, where I >> work. If that ever changes: I'm outta here. > > On the other side of the coin, I was a Group Management/Systems > accountant in a publicly-quoted IT company some years ago. > We had J D Edwards ERM system running on AIX. (And I have a few stories > about THAT as well!) > The Group Finance Department wanted a reporting tool to ensure integrity > of reporting. > We did some research and eventually purchased Hyperion - an > industry-standard reporting tool. > The IT dept refused to install it, saying they hadn't been "consulted". > One example of the organisation existing for the IT dept's benefit, > rather than the other way round! ;-) > > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
