Membership in the OpenDocument Format Alliance has almost quadrupled over the past month.The Alliance, a coalition of organizations from across the world whose goal is to enable governments to have direct management and greater control over their documents, was launched on March 3 with 36 initial members, but that has now grown to 138 members worldwide.

The Alliance is trying to promote and advance the use of the ODF (OpenDocument Format), which it says will allow the exchange of documents to take place without regard to the application or platform in which the document was created—both now and in the future.

And that is the reason it is giving for its rapid growth and the "groundswell of support" that has developed behind the ODF. >>>>

Key Benefits of OpenDocument Format:

• As a fully open standard, ODF provides users with enhanced access by ensuring that documents are usable in the future by anyone, at any time.
• By providing complete interoperability among office suites, ODF provides consumers with greater choice due to competition among vendors, including both proprietary and open source applications.
• By providing the standardized basis for interoperable document formats, ODF promotes innovation in the market for office applications.

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