To Educate About the Importance of ODF and Open Standards
Document Freedom Day 2010 is March 31st and there will be events all over the world. Document Freedom Day (DFD) is a global day for document liberation. It will be a day of grassroots effort to educate the public about the importance of Open Document Formats (ODF) and Open Standards in general. Learn more about DFD and how to get involved by visiting the DFD\’s main page.
First Desktop to Web to Mobile Solution Based on ODF Standard
A rebranding is in store for StarOffice and StarSuite, and a web-based office suite is in the works that will be tightly integrated with the OpenOffice.org desktop version, allowing users to access their documents from basically any browser and from any device. This information is from Michael Bemmer, former Sun staffer and now head of the new Office Global Business Unit at Oracle, who presents a brief summary of the future of OpenOffice.org and office productivity at Oracle, along with how the Sun Oracle merger will benefit customers and users.
Numerous Enhancements Made for Speed and Stability
OpenOffice.org 3.2 for Windows, Mac OS, Linux, and Solaris is now available for download. This version is both a feature and bug release offering faster start up times, enhanced ODF 1.2 compliance, improved MS Office compatibility and support, and over 750 bug fixes. Numerous enhancements have been made in both stability and speed. For example, Writer and Calc have both reduced ‘cold start’ time by 46% since version 3.0 was released just over a year ago, the OpenOffice team reports.
New Guide Offers Best Practices, Steps on Adopting ODF and Coexisting with MS Office
The OpenDocument Format (ODF) is an XML-based file format for representing electronic documents such as spreadsheets, charts, presentations and word processing documents. The ISO and IEC International Standard is gaining momentum as more enterprises, governments and organizations adopt it. A January 2010 guide offers suggestions on how to develop an action plan for ODF adoption and collaborate with Microsoft Office users, work with a PDF in an ODF environment, and use connectors for content management systems.
Danish Hospital Reports Key is Sun ODF Plugin for Microsoft Office
Exchanging ODF-based documents with users of Microsoft Office 2003 has proven to be not only easy but a real cost saver for the Danish Arhus University Hospital in Risskov. An OpenOffice.org facility for the past five years, the hospital has experienced the improvements the open source software suite has made in the exchange of ODF documents with Microsoft’s proprietary alternative and reported in a recent article that the free Sun ODF plugin has solved any issues.
Glenn Brunette Examines Security Features in Latest Solaris 10 OS Update
For the convenience of users wishing to be kept abreast of the latest security features in the just-released Solaris 10 OS 05/2009 (Update 7), Sun Distinguished Engineer Glenn Brunette has provided both an OpenDocument Format (ODF) and a pdf of his mediacast on what’s new in security with the new release of Solaris 10 OS. Of particular interest, Brunette suggests, is a new slide focused on IPsec and IKE.
Allows Microsoft Users to Make ODF their Default File Format
The Sun ODF Plugin for Microsoft Office gives users of this office productivity suite the ability to import and export to the Open Document Format (ODF), which is an OASIS and ISO/IEC international standard. The newest version is Sun ODF Plug-in 3.1 which offers support for Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 2, and the disabling of automatic registration and product updates - important to businesses with large deployments of ODF Plug-in such as enterprises and governments.
Encryption Process Explained, Demonstrates Strength
Malte Timmermann answers questions about OpenOffice.org for Open Document Format (ODF) documents. He specifically delves into the encryption process, asserting that it can be considered quite strong. ODF is an XML-based file format for representing electronic documents such as spreadsheets, charts, presentations and word processing documents. ODF documents are Zip archives, Timmermann explains, and the encryption is applied to all ODF relevant streams, and not to the zip archive itself.
Will Jointly Promote OpenOffice.org, Open Document Format (ODF)
Sun and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) announced they will be working together to promote the use of open source technologies as a low-cost way to improve education with universal access to information and knowledge. Under a collaborative agreement, the two also plan on developing knowledge societies in emerging and developing economies and creating a Center of Excellence for Adoption of Open Technologies that promotes adoption of OpenOffice.org and Open Document Format Tools.
