OpenDocument unanimously approved for file format standard

See CSDN News Today: OpenDocument through the ISO/IEC vote passed, think only that this came too late, in fact, this is also a signal, that is open format easier to accept the standard of recognition, and the industry's support. The IT industry is not the same as it used to be by a single person, a single organization and a single company can do well, and the community and its similar unions will play a greater role. The commercial profit model and the development pattern also has the very big change, I understand is ibm,borland and so on the company is has many outstanding products to build in the open source Eclipse,apache project, and more and more companies have adopted similar strategy.

Hope that the future of OpenDocument products to do better. There will be more and more of this happening, it will become more and more complex competition.

here are some summaries of the article:

May 2, the International Standards Organization (ISO) formally and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) vote, the Sun and IBM and other companies submitted by the open Document format OpenDocument listed as a standard file format. The move represents an important step towards standardizing the opendocument. OpenDocument, an ISO standard, will have more users around the world.

At present, the Office software that supports OpenDocument has open source OpenOffice.org, Sun company StarOffice and IBM Company workplace. Microsoft does not support the standard, and they individually submit an open XML-centric Document System, and OpenDocument competes for common standard status.

Microsoft says it will support the file interoperability of office and OpenDocument, and does not oppose OpenDocument being listed as a standard by other organizations. However, Microsoft's standard-dealing official, Josen Matusso, has made another remark: "The OpenDocument format is limited by the features and performance of OpenOffice.org and StarOffice and does not meet the needs of today's Microsoft Office users. "

A representative of the American Standards Association said the OpenDocument standard content will be announced soon.

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