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ODF Toolkit Announced

Posted by Soulskill on from the building-blocks dept.

Sweetshark writes "IBM and Sun joined at the 2008 OpenOffice.org conference in Beijing to announce the ODF Toolkit Union. The ODF Toolkit project will be independent of the development at OpenOffice.org, and will operate under the liberal Apache license. It goes from small tools that simplify using ODF in the software development process to large ODF Java and .NET libraries that can be used within other projects. 'The future of accessing and distributing software is here today,' said Michael Bemmer, senior director of Collaboration Engineering at Sun. 'It is no longer an acceptable business practice to have silos of office document data stored in proprietary formats. The industry has moved forward and is replacing the silos with business content, such as on-premise business applications, software solutions offered over the Internet and applications supported by mobile devices that are critical in Service Oriented Architectures.' Will this help ODF to make inroads in the business world after the successes on the desktops of users at home?"

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  1. Wasn't ODF invented by shampoo? by blueZ3 · · Score: 1, Funny

    Just asking

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    1. Re:Wasn't ODF invented by shampoo? by mhall119 · · Score: 4, Funny

      This person is being extremely rude, please do something about it or I will be forced to document it excessively.

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  2. Re:Toolkit, lol by Miseph · · Score: 2, Funny

    If you really want to be modded up (or to get votes), just remember the magic words: "my friends". It almost worked for McCain.

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  3. Re:I for one... by networkBoy · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm sorry, your meme has been rejected as inappropriate to your user name.
    Please restate Soviet Russia meme in the form of you.

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  4. Re:Will this help ODF to make inroads? by .orvp · · Score: 4, Funny

    I see a PHB has modpoints, thus proving they are on Slashdot, and therefor not intelligent.

    Waaait a second there.....

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  5. Re:Beating Word will be hard by calmofthestorm · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm a big FOSS fanboi but OOo does not have mature doc support. It doesn't support any complicated documents, or most of the important embedded attachemtns being sent to me from rich businessmen in Nigeria...if you catch my drift.

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