odf is the Danish government standard for documents, when a company wants to communicate with government entities using a Word Processor format (that's not the same as a document like pdf) then they can comply with the law of the land.
the most recent source I could find http://www.computerworld.dk/art/115407/it-ministerens-dokumentformat-er-en-sikkerhedsbombe said both odf and ooxml had been rejected due to immaturity (pdf being the proposed replacement???).
Also, I always cringe a little when I see stories like this, since the outcome is almost always the same. In about a year the story is gonna be how OOO didn't live up to the requirements and couldn't fullfil the complex use-cases of the institution, which basically means that it didn't integrate well with some proprietary piece of (MS) infrastructure. or the users didn't like it because it was to different from the office suite they have at home. My only hope is that they've actually taken a look at some of these earlier failures and tried to extract some experience from them. maybe even setting aside some of their license savings to training and integration testing and development.
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odf is the Danish government standard for documents, when a company wants to communicate with government entities using a Word Processor format (that's not the same as a document like pdf) then they can comply with the law of the land.
the most recent source I could find http://www.computerworld.dk/art/115407/it-ministerens-dokumentformat-er-en-sikkerhedsbombe said both odf and ooxml had been rejected due to immaturity (pdf being the proposed replacement???). Also, I always cringe a little when I see stories like this, since the outcome is almost always the same. In about a year the story is gonna be how OOO didn't live up to the requirements and couldn't fullfil the complex use-cases of the institution, which basically means that it didn't integrate well with some proprietary piece of (MS) infrastructure. or the users didn't like it because it was to different from the office suite they have at home. My only hope is that they've actually taken a look at some of these earlier failures and tried to extract some experience from them. maybe even setting aside some of their license savings to training and integration testing and development.