“The Malaysian government today announced plans to adopt open standards and the Open Document Format (ODF) within the country’s public sector,” Lynn Tan reports for ZDNet Asia.
“In July this year, Japan became the first country in the Asia-Pacific region to embrace open software standards. Last August, the United Nations urged countries in the region to adopt the ODF,” Tan reports.
“Published by OASIS (the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards), the ODF–or Open Document Format for Office Applications–is an XML-based open standard, enabling any office software to format, save and exchange file documents such as spreadsheets, databases and text,” Tan reports.
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “RadDoc” for the heads up.]