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The
Open Document Format
The
Open Document Format was developed by the OASIS
group to have a standard, open, patent-free file format that is
available across applications and across time. Across
applications is important, because there is a world beyond
Microsoft and its frequently discovered security holes. Across
time is important as applications come and go. Try to read the
file you wrote in 1985 using WordStar, the dominant word processor
of the day. We can read the paper Gutenberg Bible, but not
some computer files of 10 years ago. What happens to
government public records as they become computerized? We can
read the old paper deed books, but will we have to pay Microsoft a
royalty to read public records stored in DOC format? Saving
your documents now using OpenOffice.org as ODF files could make it
more likely that you can still read them 20 years down the road.
The file extension depends on which application you're using.
For example, word processing documents use Open Document Text (ODT),
and spreadsheets use ODS (open document spreadsheet). More
info at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument.
--This content provided by Herbert Tull, President of Batchnet
Corporation, a systems integrator and computer services provider
located in Raleigh, NC.
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