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A project to provide change control for OpenOffice.org documents via SVN. Transparently checks in internal changes in files and allows users to recover any previous version, view logs and compare with older versions. Works under Unix/Linux and Mac OSX.

some of the anti-Open XML case has been built on naively faulty assumptions about the miraculous power of ODF to disrupt Microsoft

Les Etats américains traînent les pieds à transcrire dans leur législation l'adoption du standard ODF. Un lobbying appuyé, de lentes procédures et une complexité technique sont pointés du doigt. Pour IBM, la réponse est davantage dans la nature d

L'éditeur propose un "plug-in" open source permettant d'ouvrir et de sauvegarder avec Office 2007 des fichiers au format OpenDocument. Un projet similaire est en cours de développement pour Excel et PowerPoint.

People want to know how easy it is to convert from the kind of XML they generate into other purposes. So I loaded a simple HTML file with headings, paragraph, table and list and converted it to various office XML(ish) formats: HTML (through Word 2000), WordML (through Word 2003), pre-standard ODF (SWT, through Open Office 2.0.2), ODF (through Open Office 2.0.2), as XML from the Office 2007 beta, and to XSL-FO using HTML2FO.

“OpenXML represents a paradigm shift not only in its architecture but also in the customer needs it serves, opening organizations’ existing documents to take advantage of new content management and collaboration scenarios that weren’t possible even as recently as a few years ago ,” said Frédéric Bon, CEO of Clever Age. “Through the documentation Ecma International is creating and work such as the Open XML Translator project, customers will soon have the confidence that Open XML and ODF formats can coexist and new document scenarios will flourish. We are looking forward to working with the community of developers and businesses interested in XML documents.”