OpenOffice.org Down Under!

Well, it has not been long since writing my previous article (ODF Superceded by OOXML?) where it looked like OOXML was supposedly taking over as the new standard from ODF, things have changed. There were a number of news articles coming out hinting that Microsoft were changing their view and direction for ODF and would start supporting it more natively in the near future (early 2009).

This is a short response to an article that was published in an Australian online news site about a talk from OpenCebit in Sydney this week. The link to the article is http://www.itnews.com.au/News/76442,red-hat-australia-missed-ooxml-oppor... and provides an interesting read.

The general overview of the article is good and talks about a presentation made by Frank Feldmann, Red Hat's Asia Pacific Senior Product Manager. The article mentions Frank talking about the approval of OOXML and how that could be detrimental to the innovation of new collaborative standards.