RE: [odf-adoption] XML 2007

I’d like to submit the abstract
today?

 

Dee Schur

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Subject: Re: [odf-adoption] XML
2007

 

> If we talking "demo" here, don't forget
the case of MS Office + plug-in ...

> may be important for market share, but also as an eye-opener to a

> larger audience outside the open source/open standards arena:

That's
a good point.  Using the Sun Plugin would give a simply way to include
interop with MS Office.   

We
could also take the document and gmail it to someone and show it in Google
Docs. 

I'd
like to fit in more intelligent processing of documents.  I think that is
the real advantage of open standards like ODF.  In the old world,
documents were opaque and could only be processed easily on Windows clients
that had Office installed.  With ODF,anyone with zip code an an XML parser
can read/write/modify ODF.  That is were things get interesting.  Jean-Marie
suggested business intelligence apps like BIRT or Jasper.  I have not used
either of these.  Do they support ODF today? 

-Rob

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Rob Weir

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wrote on 09/27/2007 09:25:37 AM:

> 

> 

>   "Oh, does this actually work in my
accustomed Microsoft Word too?

>    I thought this ODF thing was
only relevant for open source geeks."

> 

> (I attend "geekdinners" so not too
shy to use that word on myself and others)

> 

> HTH,

> 

> Peter