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Advantages of the OpenOffice.org XML File Format Used by the StarOffice Office Suite

Overview The StarOffice office suite is based on an open source project that was founded by Sun Microsystems and the OpenOffice.org organization. As a result, both the StarOffice and OpenOffice.org office suites use exactly the same file format. This white paper looks at the benefits and business aspects of an extensible Markup Language (XML) file format.

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Publisher	Sun Microsystems	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	April 2004	Downloads	502
Format	White Papers
Topics	Back-Office, XML, Linux - Open Source

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