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Open Standards and ODF Implementation: Current Background and Knowledge

Open Standards and ODF Implementation: Current Background and Knowledge. Gaurab Misra MIS Practicum Lab. The Issue/Problem. Weighing Importance of Open Standards in firms, governments, organizations, vendor companies

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Open Standards and ODF Implementation: Current Background and Knowledge

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  1. Open Standards and ODF Implementation:Current Background and Knowledge Gaurab Misra MIS Practicum Lab

  2. The Issue/Problem • Weighing Importance of Open Standards in firms, governments, organizations, vendor companies • How would a user of firm make decision to implement Open Document Format into the business process? • What factors need to be considered?

  3. Significance to Industry? • ODF next “battleground” of corp computing • Consumer base resistive to vendor lock-in • Ripple effects of choosing formats to favor one vendor – likely leading to the rest of the firm’s infrastructure needing to favor that specific vendor

  4. ODF – an open-standard format • Built on XML • Highly customizable • Basically an Idealized representation of a document’s structure, written in code • Allows for avoidance of proprietary software producers becoming “co-owners” of data • Propriety formats can change between releases resulting in incompatibility • Less likelihood of changing of formatting data between systems

  5. Economic/political considerations • Industry groups say standards should not be given away • Take time and money to develop • Essential components of effectiveness + security of IS products • Issues of intellectual property law • “In the Public Domain” not same as “free of charge” • Licensing, permissions, Fair Use • Standards can be used as an asset for economic gain

  6. Opportunities in Standards • Cooperative relationshipsEx: Sun Microsystems + OpenOffice.org • StarOffice productivity suite, built on OpenOffice.org and shares code base • Consumers can buy this at considerable cost savings over MS Office, but still get Sun’s support included • Revenue Streams and price discrimination can be created • Consumer still has choice between free and proprietary.

  7. IBM’s Lotus Symphony • Free suite based on Open Standard/ODF • 100,000 downloads in first week • IBM trying to make inroads in market share • Shopping it to co’s whose functionality needs are lower in specific depts. i.e. call centers, etc. • Shares limitations with its source

  8. ODF vs. OOXML • MS – OOXML, not approved by International Organization for Standards • Has ambiguities and technical restrictions that doesn’t allow it to be implemented by other vendors. • ODF format approved by ISO • Many organizations around the world except for as yet, US, talking migration to ODF • US firms not interested in format “du jour”, but in what’s going to be the universal or default format

  9. ODF implementation/satisfaction • Increasing in use • Satisfaction levels variable • Most US firms still at “considering” level • Euro firms at “pilot” or “Migration” level • Rival format OOXML has more market traction • Case: ministry of Justice, Finland • Migration to ODF projected cost savings of $5 M Euro. • No significant drop in quality or productivity • Easily installed • Training required only one day.

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