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Tuesday, April 29, 2008

The propulsion group of ODF, "switching over" - - "ODF compared to CDF is a promising future", that group staff speaks to the format of W3C propulsion

1 Tsuga of the propulsion group which designates the spread of Open Document Format (ODF) as the flag-symbol, abandoning ODF, it started supporting the document format of W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) propulsion. Because of this, you say that it spreads the standard file format which can be handled with all office software "崇 it is about high" goal probably to release in the foam.

OpenDocument Foundation of the ODF propulsion group in purpose was established the fact that the general-purpose file format is urged to all documents regardless of the software and the hardware and the device, in 2002, to recently devoted to ODF which is the meaning of existence. ODF is approved, with International Organization for Standardization (ISO) as standard already presently standardization under supervising the standardization group OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) is advanced.

However, the vise President and the business charge director of OpenDocument Foundation, sum high the - the person, to contribute opinion to, that around ahead, Compound Document of W3C Format (CDF) there is a promising future as general-purpose format than ODF explained as follows concerning the reason.

First, in order to be the general-purpose format, Microsoft for the Office suite which it propels as the standard format of ODF opposition format "Office Open XML (OOXML)" is included, complete compatibility of thermat of the same company is required. In addition,(focus conversion) of the desktop and the server and the device and portability of the cross platform, we have assumed even in the point such as independence from the vendor that CDF has satisfied condition.

High the - the person rather than the United States Sun Microsystems which is ODF largest support enterprise October 29th, vis-a-vis the telephone interview of the IDG News Service, in the February this year, leaving compatibility of the Office format to ODF, to state that the open source software "OpenOffice.org" which, becomes "the StarOffice" suite and the base of the same company the Office format of Microsoft in the thing which is made interchangeable there is an interest said that, it became the opportunity which starts losing ODF support.

As for the same person, "as for Sun we receive the payment of 20 hundred million dollars from Microsoft in regard to the compatibility of Java, and the like isn't the fact that interest is lost in the compatibility improvement of OOXML and ODF which are the default file format for Office 2007 that something to be a relationship?", that we doubt.

High the - vis-a-vis the comment of the person, as for the corporate standard group charge manager and Doug Johnson of Sun, "as for that it is completely misunderstanding", that you have expressed. According to Johnson, Sun even now has supported ODF in the many IT basis, directing to the compatibility of ODF and the other document format, it continues and it says that it is the policy of keeping endeavoring.

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