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Freitag Oktober 28, 2005

"Novell steps up support for Open Document format"
"We've been working a lot on this project. Now we feel that we can best serve the project by taking a role on the board," Greg Mancusi-Ungaro, director of Linux and open source marketing for Novell told vnunet.com.
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"Novell is committed to helping develop and embrace durable open standards that serve as a better underpinning for computing going forward. The OASIS group is one of the standards that we think has merit," Mancusi-Ungaro said.

The full article can be found here.
( Okt 28 2005, 06:42:23 AM CEST ) Permalink

"A Glimpse of OpenOffice 2.0"
"Once an open-source project really gets rolling, as has OpenOffice.org, it is tough for closed-source developers to beat it -- even the Microsoft Goliath. As you have noticed at this OpenOffice 2 level we still are viewing Microsoft Office as the standard and looking to see how OpenOffice 2 matches up against the standard. It would not be surprising at all if by the time OpenOffice 3 is released that OpenOffice is the standard and people will be looking to see if Microsoft Office comes up to the OpenOffice standard for office suite software."

The full article can be found here.
( Okt 28 2005, 06:10:25 AM CEST ) Permalink