Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Defending ODF against OOXML in the UK

Hi :)
Please can anyone with anything to say about ODF please post comments
to the consultation exercise
http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20140220165521599
I think you can post even if you are not English or have trouble
writing in English.  Go for it!

My view is that ODF is the only format that really has true
interoperability at the moment.  In the future i suspect it will
become MUCH more widely prevalent and files stored in almost any other
format might struggle to be opened.

People might be using DocX quite a bit at the moment but each version
of MS Office seems to give fairly different results when trying to
display files written with other versions of MS Office.  The various
different implementations of MS's OOXML have been given different
names.  2007 and 2010 were using a "transistional OOXML" (ie NOT pure
as per the ISO standard and not the same as each other).  2013 and 365
supposedly use "strict" but in the future they might well change again
with no documentation describing the changes (unlike the well
documented changes between ODF 1.2 and "extended".  Also it's unlikely
that programs can easily switch between "strict" and whichever is used
as default (unlike OO and LO)

Regards from
Tom :)





On 26 February 2014 12:36, Gordon Burgess-Parker
<gordon@gbpcomputing.co.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-02-26 at 06:59 -0500, Jim Seymour wrote:
>
> > We've avoided IT falling under control of the bean counters, where I
> > work.  If that ever changes: I'm outta here.
>
> On the other side of the coin, I was a Group Management/Systems
> accountant in a publicly-quoted IT company some years ago.
> We had J D Edwards ERM system running on AIX. (And I have a few stories
> about THAT as well!)
> The Group Finance Department wanted a reporting tool to ensure integrity
> of reporting.
> We did some research and eventually purchased Hyperion - an
> industry-standard reporting tool.
> The IT dept refused to install it, saying they hadn't been "consulted".
> One example of the organisation existing for the IT dept's benefit,
> rather than the other way round! ;-)
>
>
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