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OpenOffice.org and the State of Massachusetts

 

  • What is the problem?
    • The better is the enemy of the good
      • Electronic documents age, because file formats loose support
      • Valuable data turns into digital bit soup.
  • What is not a solution?
    • Backup and coping of media alone
    • Keeping old versions of applications around
      • Old application does not run on new OS
      • Old OS does not run on new hardware/printer/...
  • What is the solution?
    • The State of Massachusetts says:
      • Open document formats that are free to be used by programs
      • Preferably open source applications, because a format specification is only a fraction of the value of a running application in source. (porting is less work than implementing to read and convert(?) an old format).
  • What does it mean for the State?
    • New ETRM 3.5 mandates beginning of 2007 all new documents are stored in PDF or ODF
    • Old documents are converted as much as possible
    • Practical consequence support for ODF for Office applications
      • MS refuses to support ODF
      • OASIS works on MS Office plug-ins back to Office 97 to read and write ODF. Testing by the state in progress.
      • Open source office suites, such as OpenOffice.org, KOffice, AbiWord, ...
      • Also supporting are Lotus Notes, IBM ...
  • What does it mean for the citizens of Massachusetts
    • The good news is their state documents are future proof
    • The not so bad news is they might get documents in ODF and need the means to process them (OASIS PlugIn for MS or OpenOffice.org, etc.)
  • What does it mean for the average geek?
    • What file formats do you store data in, you want to keep?
      • Personal Wiki?
      • Photos, Images?
      • E-Mail (Contacts!)

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