Erwin's StarOffice Tango

Microsoft Invites to ODF Workshop in Redmond
This is probably my last blog post on blogs.sun.com (see this in case you wonder why), but I wanted to share with you my excitement about the success of ODF. The news of the last few days together with numbers like the OpenOffice.org download data clearly show, that ODF can't be ignored anymore. According to this invitation on the OASIS ODF TC mailing lists, Microsoft is inviting to an ODF Workshop in Redmond. Maybe this invitation has something to do with Microsoft's public "ODF has clearly won" statement at a recent event. Thus, if Microsoft has to support ODF in their products due to market demand, what ISV can still ignore supporting ODF? I guess none! Anyway, OpenOffice.org is just one implementation of ODF and is facing more than 1.2M downloads per week (!!!) on average (since the beginning of 2008) with most recent download numbers having been close to 2M. In addition, Asus, Acer and HP are now shipping laptops with OpenOffice.org pre-installed, and more and more organizations deploy OpenOffice.org in a large scale. Finally, according to Google file type searches like this one and this one, ODF is still clearly the market leading editable XML document file format. Thus, I'm sure ODF and OpenOffice.org have a bright future!
( Jun 23 2008, 06:22:43 AM CEST ) Permalink Kommentare [2]

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Erwin, we've never met, but your blog here has caught my eye. Will you have a blog at your new place, or on your own space? Best wishes to you for your future.

Gesendet von Carolyn am Juni 23, 2008 at 07:59 AM CEST #

Erwin, i enjoyed your posts relating OpenOffice, StarOffice and open source.

Good luck and keep posting about it in your new job!

Greetings from Argentina

Gesendet von orlando_ombzzz am Juni 23, 2008 at 02:00 PM CEST #

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