Wednesday, December 27, 2006
And then there were three...
ODF, OOXML and now, UOF. This story broke back in November, with some good coverage including:
On the technical side there is some important progress on harmonization, some preparatory work done in a joint research program between Peking University and IBM. The results of this year-long effort are now available:
- Andy Updegrove: Another Open Document Format – From China and More on China's Uniform Office Format (and much more)
- Jeff Kaplan: Is China Pulling a Bill Gates on ODF?
- David Berlind: China's own document standard: A clear message to US IT vendors?
- Rick Jelliffe: Why China's UOF is good
- Stephen Walli: Open Standards, IPR and Innovation Conference, Beijing (2006)
- Neil McAllister: China aims to set a new office doc standard
- Luyi Chen: China's Own Office Document Format Aiming to Harmonize with ODF
- Evan Leibovitch: Debate over document formats not just academic
On the technical side there is some important progress on harmonization, some preparatory work done in a joint research program between Peking University and IBM. The results of this year-long effort are now available:
- A 150-page report (in English and Chinese) called "A Comparison Between ODF and UOF". This document compares the two standards feature-by-feature and explains how to map data between the two.
- A UOF-ODF Convertor, an open source Java-based tool, licensed under the LGPL, which provides bi-directional conversions of the three office document types (word processor, spreadsheet and presentation).
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