[odf-discuss] Comparison of ODF and MOOXML uptake

[marbux]

Erwin Tenhumberg has a very nice paragraph illustrating that MOOXML
does not yet have any significant uptake and that ODF does.
<http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/higher_costs_due_to_increased>. He
links Google queries for ODT, DOCX, ODP, and PPTX. All one need do is
to check the number of hits returned by each. The paragraph reads
(links omitted):

"Finally, the anti-ODF document says "ODF, on the other hand, was
designed to represent information created by two applications,
StarOffice and OpenOffice, that are not widely used." The statement is
wrong in two ways. First, ODF was not designed to be application
dependent but application and vendor agnostic. Check out this ODF
white paper for details about the openness of ODF. Second,
OpenOffice.org is already widely used! Just look at this wiki page or
do Google searches like this one, this one, this one, or this one.
Also read this ("Science cannot at present accept files in Word 2007's
.docx format.") and this ("We currently cannot accept files saved in
Microsoft Office 2007 formats."). You will notice that Microsoft's
OOXML does not play a significant role, yet. In contrast, ODF is
already used widely as the hundreds of published ODF documents proof."

Highly useful for rebutting those who claim that MOOXML has a whopping
market share.

Best regards,

Paul