A National Archive Moves to ODF

Andy Updegrove writes "The National Archives of Australia (NAA) has announced that it will move its digital archives program to OpenOffice 2.0, an open source implementation of ODF. Unlike Massachusetts or the City of Bristol (which announced it would convert to save on total cost of ownership), the NAA will deal almost exclusively with documents created elsewhere in multiple formats. As a result, it provides a "worst possible case" for testing the practicality of using ODF in a still largely non-ODF world. If successful, the NAA example would therefore demonstrate that the use of ODF is reasonable and feasible in more normal situations, where the percentage of documentation that is created and used internally is much larger."

Comments

OpenOffice.org 2.0?

[Khakionion]

it will move its digital archives program to OpenOffice 2.0, an open source implementation of ODF

Wow, OOo 2.0 supports ODF? That's great news, I've been using one of the other myriad programs* that support ODF.

*Note: Said software doesn't exist.

Re: "other myriad programs*"

[rickst29]

Hey MORON, KOffice does a fine job too.

(Pure FUD... are you proudly clueless, or are you 0wn3d by criminal monopolists? If you're only a TROLL, please get off the computer and go eat some donuts.)