Optaros is an inaugural member of the newly formed ODF Alliance. We joined the ODF Alliance because as an open source and standards centric systems integrator and consulting services company we're finding our government and enterprise customers are interested in ODF. They want to have choice of vendors for their desktop office suites, and to regain control of their document formats in a world where their documents are increasingly created, published and managed electronically.
The ODF Alliance mission is to educate policy makers, IT administrators, and the public on the benefits of ODF with respect to such choice and control. We support the mission and would like to contribute to it with use cases and our experience with ODF and the use of standards and open source software.
Here is the press release from the ODF Alliance, and with it some excellent resources from their resources page.
Press and blog coverage so far:
- The New York Times (login required)
- InfoWorld article
- internetnews.com
- Bob Sutor's commentary from IBM
- Andy Updegrove's commentary
- Great Groklaw commentary
Anyone interested in the mission can join here.
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