Friday, October 21, 2005

More OpenDocument Filter News

Following on from the story "OpenDoc plug-in for MS Office users" CNet posts more details on the filter:
"Phase N intends to do exactly that, a task which it expects to take a few hundred hours of development time. It calls its project OpenOpenOffice.

Rather than client-side software to do the conversion, OpenOpenOffice relies on a server running a Perl application, according to the technical description.

The company hopes to have an open-source project started on SourceForge shortly."
http://news.com.com/2061-10795_3-5906971.html

Phase N has their description of the server side solution:
http://www.phase-n.com/openopenoffice/

Previous story:
http://ooonewsletter.blogspot.com/2005/10/opendoc-plug-in-for-ms-office-users.html