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Novell backs OpenDocument to the hilt
January 23, 2006, 9:40 pm |
Novell backs OpenDocument to the hilt
Next version of enterprise desktop will have full support
for XML-based file format
Robert Jaques, vnunet.com 17 Jan 2006
Novell has promised to support the XML-based
OpenDocument file format in
its current and future products.
The Linux firm first delivered OpenDocument support in its SuSE Linux
distribution in March 2005, but its most recent announcement promises to
integrate complete support for the format in the next edition of its
enterprise desktop scheduled for this year.
OpenDocument is a standardised XML-based file format specification for
office applications.
The open, application-independent format can be implemented within any
software program, and covers the features required by text,
spreadsheets, charts and graphical documents.
In a thinly veiled reference to Microsoft ,
Novell pointed out that OpenDocument files can be opened by any
OpenDocument-compliant application regardless of language, thereby
"freeing users from the shifting product directions of any one vendor".
The firm added that it is working with Google ,
IBM , Red Hat , Sun
Microsystems and others to promote the standard
across the open source community and the marketplace.
"True open standards like OpenDocument are subject to public inspection
and contribution and are unencumbered by property rights and the
individual agendas of specific vendors," said Jack Messman, chairman and
chief executive at Novell.
Novell is a member of the Oasis Open
Document Format for Office Applications technical committee which
manages and publishes the OpenDocument standard.
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