The Open Document Alliance welcomes Google

by Chris Gilmer on July 13, 2006 at 11:35 AM

google joins open document allianceGoogle recently joined the Open Document Alliance. Google recently launched Google Spreadsheets, and purchased the online word processor, Writely, made the move to support the alliance in the development of the open document industry.

The Open Document Alliance is a relatively new organization that launched March of 2006. Its goal is to help the move from paper to electronic. Promoting and enhancing the use of the OpenDocument Format (ODF).

The Alliance's current members include:
  • Corel
  • Google Inc
  • IBM
  • Novell
  • Oracle
  • Red Hat Inc
  • Sun Microsystems Inc
In another move in the Open Doc world, Microsoft announced support for the ODF extension with plug-in translators with their office applications.

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