You remember yesterday when I was pushing back on the often heard in recent weeks argument, the one that contended that “The Open Document Format is not supported by any currently shipping products?” And I said that was true at least for a few “weeks?” Well, I actually meant hours. As Erwin covers here, the commercial version of Open Office, Sun’s Star Office 8 Suite , is now shipping with full support for the Open Document Format. So if you’re scoring at home, go ahead and scratch that argument off the list of acceptable objections to the ODF (not that I felt it was credible in the first place).
While the new iterations of the traditional office productivity tools are news given the context of the of the Massachusetts/ODF mandate, I’m more interested in some of the Enterprise tools in the release. I caught a demo of these while I was at the NC event in NYC a couple of weeks back, and the SO folks were kind enough to give me a copy to play with. I’ll have more on those as soon as I get a chance to run them on some of the content I have at hand, but they were at first glance quite adept at identifying and easing some of the more typical migration pains customers like Massachusetts will experience. Interesting stuff.
