Ni Guangnan, an academician with the Chinese Academy of
Engineering wrote an article recently to promote the
China-developed document format, Uniform Office Format (UOF).
China is planning to integrate UOF with Open Document Format
(ODF), an international document format standard developed by
several international companies. Microsoft's monopoly in the field
of document software will be broken if UOF successfully merges with
ODF and the new format is approved as an international standard, Ni
argues. As a result, the market of document software will embrace
fair competition in the future, he predicts in his
article.?
Several Chinese software companies, in collaboration with the
Institute of Software of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, developed
UOF in 2002. It was approved by the Chinese authorities in April of
2007, becoming a national standard. China will begin to promote the
standard across the nation this September.
For more details, please read the full story in Chinese. (
http://www.china-cbn.com/s/n/000004/20070717/000000073171.shtml)
(China.org.cn July 17 2007)
