Florian Effenberger wrote: > ... Is there also an English article available? ...
http://nrkbeta.no/2010/01/08/openoffice/ Approximate, loose, unofficial translation with errors: === NRK Rolls out OpenOffice By Øyvind Solstad - 8 january 2010 Starting on 1 March 2010 all computers in use by NRK's employees will be able to have the office suite OpenOffice. After many years with only Microsoft Office, NRK will now support open formats like ODF. OpenOffice will be the standard office suite on all production machines, Macinsoshes and terminal servers. Therewith NRK takes a large stride in supporting open source software and supporting open formats. In the document entitled "Reference Inventory for IT standards in the public sector" the Government describes the requiremenst for "...exchange of documents between the public sector, citizens and the private sector." There the following is stated: "HTML 4.01 (W3C 1999)/ XHTML 1 (W3C 2000) shall be the primary format for publishing of documented with textual content on the state's web sites. The requirement begins starting 1 January 2009" When there there are special reasons for publication in a format other than HTML/XHTML, the following standards must be used: PDF 1.4 -- 1.6, PDF 1.7 (ISO 32000-1) eller PDF/A (ISO 19005-1) for publication of finalized documents where it is seen as essential to retain the formatting. ODF 1.1 (Oasis, februar 2007), for the publication of documents intended for further editing. The requirement starts 1 January 2010. Up until that point can ODF 1.0 (ISO/IEC 26300:2006) as described in the first version of the Reference Inventory be used. (see also NRK Beta's information on that from January 2009) http://nrkbeta.no/2009/01/08/regjeringen-krever-ogg-vorbis-og-theora/ NRK has a few exceptions from that decision, because there is so much material to migrate. For sound and pictures preparations have begun, but with the condition that we will go over to H.264 for video in the next version of NRK's Internet-TV - which is fully under way. We wish to be proactive with documents and cannot turn a blind eye to the license costs for the the programs we have today. It is also so that we find that Microsoft's Office suite for Windows does not have adequate support for ODF and the Macintosh version does not support ODF even partially. These are the primary reasons that NRK now chooses to provide OpenOffice to its employees. All of NRK's 850 Macintosh PCs and a portion of NRK's 3,500 other PCs will have OpenOffice installed during the coming weeks. This applies to both the office suite, with among other things Word and Excell, the e-mail program {sic} Outlook on the Windows PC and Entourage on the Macintosh PC. For e-mail shall [1] many of NRKs employees now use Microsoft Exchange in a web browser via Outlook WebAccess[2] All administrative machines in NRK have Microsoft Office as common. NRK wishes to test how many of its colleagues can run OpenOffice in preference to Microsoft Office. Test at Tyholt During the last months P3's entire editorial staff at Tyholt has used OpenOffice as standard, and the group leader for technology at Tyholt, Steinar Bjørlykke says to NRK Beta that it has gone shockingly pain-free: "We are surprised at how easy it is, we experience extremely few if any problems" The problems have first and foremost been tied to use of VisualBasic in scripts [3] and that many of the templates which NRK has for schedules and orders don't [currently] look so nice in OpenOffice. Here it is planned that we will avoid VisualBasic where we can, and that schedules will be put on the net and tied to databases not documents. There has been a few loose ends in connection with notices from the Exchange server to the users. If you run e-mail in a window in your web browser, notices, say for example for new mail, won't pop up over the other windows as many are used to happening. There are also a few problems with filters on the server such as for example "run filters now" which does not work in a web browser. Another problem has been that it has been difficult to play MP3 files included inside documents in OpenOffice, but with help of plugins it looks that the problem can be solved. [image of OpenOffice View menu and Toolbars submenu] Of the advantages we experience are that searches on the Exchange server go much faster and that the heavy Word and Excel documents open lightning fast in OpenOffice in many cases faster than in Word or Excel. NeoOffice? And for those that wonder, yes we have considered using NeoOffice, but that is both desireable and easier if both Mac PCs and other PCs have the same programs. We have also evaluated using Apple's iWork suite to work with Word and Excel documents, but just as with Microsoft's Office suite we wish first to have top notch support for ODF, and next to have software independent of operating system and finally to reduce licensing costs. The choice has therefore arrived at OpenOffice which has all the functions we wish it to have. This article is licensed under the Creative Commons license "Navngivelse-Del på samme vilkår 3.0 Norge" http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/no/ === [1] Translator's comment: see instead Kolab or Citadel instead of MS Exchange [2] Translator's comment: Outlook WebAccess might not be said to have been designed with interoperability in mind... RoundCube or something similar might be a more practical choice for web client [3] Translator's comment: OpenOffice supports scripting with JavaScript and Python, in cases where scripting is needed. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org
