Content Management Matters ™

In English this time: IBM has joined OpenOffice.org, reportedly to "collaborate on software development for the Open Document Format (ODF), an ISO standard that governs the creation, storage, and exchange of documents," says Mark Long of newsfactor.com.

IBM will start by sharing the code it's been developing for its Lotus Notes software, including certain accessibility fixes that may allegedly help OpenOffice "reach parity" with Microsoft's current offering for disabled workers via Office.

Critics are making much ado about Microsoft's Open XML format, which may be adopted as an international standard this weekend.

To loosely paraphrase any of a handful of these naysayers, the new format is -- at best -- a ploy to keep customers nailed to the Windows cross.

'Til death do us part.