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A National Archive Moves to ODF

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the real-time-case-studies dept.

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."

3 of 99 comments (clear)

  1. Get some PRIORITIES! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Open Document Format, big deal. Who gives a shit? How can we focus on that when Brian Bouchard is about to revolutionize the computing world? Linux is nothing; Brian's got this OS stuff all figured out.

  2. Re:First by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Open Document Format, big deal. Who gives a shit? How can we focus on that when Brian Bouchard is about to revolutionize the computing world? Linux is nothing; Brian's got this OS stuff all figured out.

  3. On the contrary... by mnemonic_ · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Open Document Format, big deal. Who gives a shit? How can we focus on that when Brian Bouchard is about to revolutionize the computing world? Linux is nothing; Brian's got this OS stuff all figured out. It will support ODF.