[odf-discuss] BE, NL: governments will not use ISO OOXML

[Russell Ossendryver]

*Belgium and the Netherlands will not yet consider OOXML, Microsoft's format
for electronic documents, it appears from comments by the Belgian Federal
ICT advisory body Fedict and the Dutch ministry of Economic Affairs.
*
Asked to comment on last week's ISO approval for OOXML, Fedict's chief IT
architect, Peter Strickx, said: "There will have to be multiple
implementations, in order for us not to become dependent on a single vendor.
It will also have to be compatible with open standards that we already use,
in this case Open Document Format ODF."
Strickx explained these are the rules for any new standard to be considered
for the country's public services.
http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/7562
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