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Montag Mai 08, 2006

"True Data Interoperability for Office Applications"
"The OpenDocument OASIS Standard, a format which enables users of varying office suites to freely exchange documents, has been approved for release as an ISO and IEC International Standard. OpenDocument was balloted through the Joint Technical Committee on Information Technology (JTC1) of the International Standards Organization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). The OASIS OpenDocument submission has been given the designation, ISO/IEC 26300.

OpenDocument defines a genuinely open XML file format for office applications. Suitable for text, spreadsheets, charts, graphs, presentations, and databases, the standard frees documents from their applications-of-origin, enabling them to be exchanged, retrieved, and edited with any OpenDocument-compliant software or tool. The standard will facilitate access, search, use, integration, and development of document content in new and innovative ways."

Found here.
( Mai 08 2006, 05:57:46 PM CEST ) Permalink

Excellent Sun Ray review by eWeek
Here is an excellent review by eWeek of the new Sun Ray 2FS ultra-thin client. The product got an "excellent" rating for interoperability and power consumption. I hope to get one at home sometime soon as well. I'm using my laptop less and less since the Sun Ray technology supports global hot desking. I just continue to use the same session in Santa Clara, California that I used one day before in Hamburg, Germany. Thus, the mobility concept illustrated by me here really is reality at Sun today.
( Mai 08 2006, 05:44:20 PM CEST ) Permalink Kommentare [1]

New OpenOffice.org Solutions Page
A new OpenOffice.org solutions page is under development. The page can be found here, and tries to help users find and create solutions that allow migrating to OpenOffice.org and OpenOffice.org-based products.
( Mai 08 2006, 05:35:07 PM CEST ) Permalink