Thursday, October 13, 2005

Coalition to promote OpenDocument

Emboldened by the state of Massachusetts' decision last month to require the use of open-standard document formats in all state offices by Jan. 1, 2007, a group of open standards advocates Monday created a special interest group to <A HREF="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1869808,00.asp?kc=ewnws101205dtx1k0000599">promote the OpenDocument format.</A> OpenDocument is an open-standards document format created by the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards to store data from desktop applications, such as word processing, presentation, and spreadsheet software. OpenDocument is used by the open source OpenOffice.org desktop business application suite and is supported by Sun Microsystems' StarOffice 8.

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