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Norwegian Standards Council Recommends Mandatory use of ODF and PDF

by Andy Updegrove, ConsortiumInfo.org

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OpenOffice Taps Business Smarts

by Sean Michael Kerner, InternetNews.com

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Sun's McNealy Calls for Merger of ODF and China's UOF

by Andy Updegrove, Consortium Info

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OASIS Creates Discussion List for Document Standards Interoperability TC

An open discussion list has been created to explore interest in forming an OASIS Document Standards Interoperability Technical Committee. The proposed TC is intended to address the development and documentation of scenarios for cross-standard content sharing; a specification for  an interoperability framework, including mappings from participating standard formats to the framework; and requirements on participating standards to improve interoperability.

The new discussion list is open to members and non-members and may last up to 90 days.

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Malaysia suspends ODF approval process: Sirim BHD's head wants end to feuding between ODF, Open XML advocates

By Eric Lai, Computerworld

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