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Title	ODF group a year old, but format still unproven
Type	News
Source	IDG News Service 03/28/2007
Summary	Tuesday marks the one-year anniversary of the ODF Alliance, an international group of organizations dedicated to promoting Open Document format for XML (ODF) as an international standard for document formats. But while the group has encouraged public agencies across the world to enact policies to support open IT standards over the last year, ODF supporters have more work to do to increase the adoption of alternatives to Microsoft Corp.'s Office suite, industry watchers said. continue

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