{"id":561,"date":"2006-03-28T11:05:01","date_gmt":"2006-03-28T18:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp\/?p=561"},"modified":"2006-03-28T11:05:01","modified_gmt":"2006-03-28T18:05:01","slug":"on-odf-openoffice-and-redmonk-as-a-three-man-three-platform-three-timezone-shop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/on-odf-openoffice-and-redmonk-as-a-three-man-three-platform-three-timezone-shop\/","title":{"rendered":"On ODF, OpenOffice and RedMonk as a three man, three platform, three timezone shop"},"content":{"rendered":"

Great post<\/a> yesterday about ODF and distributed team-working by Stephen.<\/p>\n

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Taking advantage of the time zone differential between Denver and London, James processed the document in the morning his time, and when I opened my laptop first thing this morning I was delighted to see a reply from him with a revised and updated attachment (I would have used Writely, but I wrote most of it on planes over the weekend). Because RedMonk’s a cross-platform shop (I’m on Linux, Cote’s on OS X, and James is on Windows XP<\/strong><\/em>), the Open Document Format makes the most sense for us – for offline pubs, anyway. This deliverable was no exception, and the version I’d created was ODF and that’s what he returned to me.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, his version of Star Office \/ Open Office somehow corrupted the file on save. The edited version that he sent me this morning would not open, returning me the message pictured. When I first pinged him, I was holding out hope that it was simply a transmission error in email, or some other error on my side, but he quickly reported back that his version of the file was no more readable than mine.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Stephen quickly found the fix for corrupted OpenOffice files<\/a>, which was goodness.<\/p>\n

Obviously we wouldn’t recommend that most smaller companies pursue a multiplatform strategy by design. A de jure interoperability first<\/strong> approach makes a great deal of sense for us though because we’re an analyst firm covering multiple platforms.<\/p>\n

Cote is thinking through some related issues, concerning time zone and event scheduling.<\/p>\n

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A constant problem for us at RedMonk is scheduling meetings. We each have different OS’s, but more importantly, 99% of our scheduling is with people outside of our organization. so you can imagine that the Exchange\/Outlook approach doesn’t work too well.<\/p>\n

Now, you can imagine that we could put a calendar on a web page that showed when we were free and busy: it might even say what we were doing at the time, contain links to relevant things (like follow-up blog posts)…you know, the Web 2.0 calendaring wet dream ;> Upcoming<\/a>, eventful<\/a>, and others are good initial cuts at a UI for a calendar (the next steps are integrating with more applications and services, like Exchange and iCal, or dodgeball<\/a>.).<\/p>\n

What gets tricky is if some application — say Outlook — wants to use that calendar web page to help someone schedule time with RedMonk. Good luck with that. At best you’d have to screen-scrape and someone hook up with Outlook<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

RedMonk: We’re loosely-coupled. With ODF we can maintain content across multiple platforms across multiple time zones, without worrying if the specific ODF implementation we’re using at a given time crashes. Its a good feeling, the confidence gained through multiple implementions of a content spec. Here is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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