Open Office News & Articles

Dutch-based O3Spaces BV (news, site) has just released the latest version of its document management system and with it continues the development of a product that the company says is a real and viable alternative to SharePoint.

For anyone following us here, this would not be the first time that a company made similar claims. However, the company is not claiming to have the weight to replace the Microsoft heavyweight, just that it is a viable alternative to people looking for a document collaboration system, and an open source one at that.

The kicker is that it provides tight integration of its collaborative abilities into OpenOffice.org, StarOffice and MS Office.

In more standards news the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) recently announced that their members have approved OpenDocument Format (ODF) for Office Applications version 1.1 as an official OASIS Standard.

OpenDocument is a royalty-free, XML-based file format that covers features required by text, spreadsheets, charts, and graphical documents.

This newest update provides users with important accessibility enhancements, ensuring that the OpenDocument format takes care of addressing the particular needs of people with disabilities.