Comments on: Novell uses ODF http://avi.alkalay.net/2007/06/novell-uses-odf.html Digital Awareness and Flying Spirit Fri, 05 Feb 2010 10:57:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Béranger http://avi.alkalay.net/2007/06/novell-uses-odf.html/comment-page-1#comment-44251 Béranger Thu, 14 Jun 2007 07:51:52 +0000 http://avi.alkalay.net/2007/06/novell-uses-odf.html#comment-44251 Maybe. Or maybe not. <a href="http://www.novell.com/licensing/price/index.html" rel="nofollow">Novell Buying Programs</a> has <b>all the price lists as XLS files!</b> None of them is duplicated as either ODT or SXW! This tells volumes on their "integration" with Microsoft. In times of NLD9, they had that objective of having <a href="http://beranger.org/index.php?article=136&page=3k" rel="nofollow">all Novell employees on Linux and OpenOffice by Q1 2005</a>. Yeah, sure. Maybe. Or maybe not. Novell Buying Programs has all the price lists as XLS files! None of them is duplicated as either ODT or SXW! This tells volumes on their “integration” with Microsoft. In times of NLD9, they had that objective of having all Novell employees on Linux and OpenOffice by Q1 2005. Yeah, sure.

]]> By: Nicu http://avi.alkalay.net/2007/06/novell-uses-odf.html/comment-page-1#comment-44235 Nicu Thu, 14 Jun 2007 05:59:04 +0000 http://avi.alkalay.net/2007/06/novell-uses-odf.html#comment-44235 A few months ago (March) I got some files (business related) from someone in Red Hat and they were in .sxw format (OpenOffice.org 1.x). I guess tis make sense as they probably were standardized internally to RHEL 4, which does not have OpenOffice.org 2.x, so no ODF support, but in the meantime RHEL 5 was released and probably they will move/already moved to ODF. A few months ago (March) I got some files (business related) from someone in Red Hat and they were in .sxw format (OpenOffice.org 1.x).
I guess tis make sense as they probably were standardized internally to RHEL 4, which does not have OpenOffice.org 2.x, so no ODF support, but in the meantime RHEL 5 was released and probably they will move/already moved to ODF.

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