Free open source office suites to read, write, convert or replace industry-standard Microsoft Office document formats are in ample supply. Yet their use in business and government, especially in the U.S., lags far behind proprietary products. The Document Foundation, creator of the LibreOffice variant of OpenOffice, recently joined the Open Source Business Alliance to help deploy the free office suite on larger scales within companies and organizations. The Open Source Business Alliance aims to help ensure compatibility and interoperability.
I cannot verify the validity of the claim, but engineers at my company say that Calc cannot handle some of the equations that they use. They are Excel power users deluxe. I am not in an IT position, I just asked why they didn't try OpenOffice out of curiosity.
In the U.S., the reality is that open office suites have to accommodate the Microsoft Big Foot in order for users to conduct business. I wish I could use ODF but can't. The current best strategy is to continue with MS compatibility.
>"ODF format and open source office suites clearly have not played a prominent role in the U.S.
"We can't judge why this is the case, but it seems that the U.S. agencies are more focused on moving to cloud services -- which is generally fine, if they do not establish yet another set of vendor lock-in and long-term negative effects," said Dyroff.
Clueless Users"
MORE LIKE CLUELESS DEVS..
what are they doing to compete against office 365?
Where is their cloud road map?
In the cloud is more even field as you deal much less with extensions. In fact most users should never deal with that in the cloud.
Sharing, collab is instant.
Sadly we have blind devs and project admins trapped into a dumb cycle.
GET YOUR ARSSE TO MARS! sorry I mean the cloud ;)
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger total recall
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The Long Slog to Level the Document Playing Field
Posted by: Jack M. Germain January 6, 2015 05:22 PMFree open source office suites to read, write, convert or replace industry-standard Microsoft Office document formats are in ample supply. Yet their use in business and government, especially in the U.S., lags far behind proprietary products. The Document Foundation, creator of the LibreOffice variant of OpenOffice, recently joined the Open Source Business Alliance to help deploy the free office suite on larger scales within companies and organizations. The Open Source Business Alliance aims to help ensure compatibility and interoperability.
"We can't judge why this is the case, but it seems that the U.S. agencies are more focused on moving to cloud services -- which is generally fine, if they do not establish yet another set of vendor lock-in and long-term negative effects," said Dyroff.
Clueless Users"
MORE LIKE CLUELESS DEVS..
what are they doing to compete against office 365?
Where is their cloud road map?
In the cloud is more even field as you deal much less with extensions. In fact most users should never deal with that in the cloud.
Sharing, collab is instant.
Sadly we have blind devs and project admins trapped into a dumb cycle.
GET YOUR ARSSE TO MARS! sorry I mean the cloud ;)
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger total recall