ODF Finds Support in a Growing Number of Apps

• By John K. Waters
• April 3, 2006

Last week I mentioned that I knew of only two office suites that currently support OASIS's Open Document Format for Office Applications (ODF): StarOffice and OpenOffice.org. Sun's ever-helpful chief open-source officer, Simon Phipps, let me know today about a few more, as well as some other types of applications that support the open file format. The source for the following list is Wikipedia, which, of course, I could have consulted myself... if I'd thought of it. My bad.

Along with the aforementioned office suites, a number of apps support the ODF, including:

• Akshar Naveen (multilingual office suite)
• Aukyla (document management system)
• DocMgr (document management system)
• eZ publish (free OS content management system)
• GNOME Office (free collection of desktop productivity apps)
• IBM Workplace (client-side framework for creating server-managed business applications)
• Knomos (workflow and knowledge management application for law firms)
• KOffice (free office suite for KDE)
• Lenteja (text document repository)
• NeoOffice (a port of OpenOffice.org to the Mac OS X)
• Scribus (OS desktop publishing app)
• SoftMaker Office (German office suite)
• TEA (text editor)
• Visioo Writer (OpenDocument file viewer)
• Writely (Web-based word processor, currently in beta)

Several search tools also support the ODF. Among them:

• Beagle
• Copernic
• Google Desktop Search
• Kat Desktop Search Environment
• Windows Desktop Search

And there's planned support in the following:

• Software602's 602PC Office Suite
• JustSystem's Ichitaro office suite, which the Wikipedia identifies as the second most common Japanese office software
• Mozilla Firefox

More details on this Wikipedia page.