ODF open source

To Google's recent purchase of Writely, a Web-based word processor; the creation of Google Spreadsheet; and the release of Google Calendar, you can now add impending broad support for the ODF (Open Document Format) to Google's online office moves. Read more at http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS3382356746.html

IN A major victory for the Open Document Format (ODF) Alliance spearheaded by Sun Microsystems, IBM, Novell, Red Hat and Oracle in India, and a setback to Microsoft, several government departments in Delhi have decided to switch over to the freely available, ODF-based free source suites from proprietary office suites (mostly MS Office).

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