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● 06.25.08

●● Uruguay’s University of the Republic Embraces OpenDocument Format

Posted in Formats, Free/Libre Software, ISO, Office Suites, Open XML, OpenDocument, OpenOffice at 4:31 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Under most people’s noses, University of the Republic at Uruguay officially embraced ODF. Here is the automated English translation:

=> ↺ University of the Republic at Uruguay | ↺ officially embraced | ↺ English translation

The University will use open standards ODF and PDF to manage office documents
The Central Board of Directors approved the document “Standards file format office” presented by the Commission Sector Development Computer recommends that the use of open standards ODF and PDF for the creation, storage and exchange of documents in the office and udelen in its relationship with the rest of society.

While the whole world speaks about the astounding download rates of Firefox 3, OpenOffice boasts an increasing download pace that currently exceeds 1.2 downloads per week, on average.

=> ↺ OpenOffice boasts

The OpenOffice.org 2.4.1 is on the way and I believe it will break our previous download-numbers. Looking at Firefox and their version number 3, I hope we will also have a big success with our upcoming OpenOffice.org 3.

This hopefully shows why Microsoft is so afraid of ODF, which is here to thrive. █

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