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RSS feedsMembers of the Oasis standards consortium have launched a campaign to educate the marketplace on the value of the OpenDocument Format (ODF) standard.
The newly formed Oasis ODF Adoption Committee, which includes IBM, Novell, Oracle and Sun Microsystems, believes that raising awareness of the open file format will increase the demand for and availability of ODF-conforming products.
"The life of a document may far exceed that of a particular software product or vendor," said IBM's Don Harbison, convener and proposed chairman of the ODF Adoption Committee.
"Users have a right to retain control over their work, no matter when their documents were created or what tool was used to create them. Open standards in general, and ODF in particular, can help ensure that right.
"Our team will work to help users understand what's really at stake here and the advantages ODF offers for platform- and application-independent documents."
ODF was approved as an Oasis standard in May 2005 and was submitted by Oasis to the International Organization for Standardization International Electrotechnical Commission's Joint Technical Committee for further approval as a de jure standard.
ODF is maintained and advanced by the Oasis OpenDocument Technical Committee, which was formed in November 2002.
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