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From: Gerhard =?iso-8859-1?Q?H=E4ring?= <gerhard.nospam@bigfoot.de>
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Subject: Re: Future with Ada
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In article <9v7r4u$p8v$1@nh.pace.co.uk>, Marin David Condic wrote:
> [...] Developing an office suite that is available
> in source and runs on a number of diverse platforms and keeps its data in
> formats that are easily accessed by other programs is something that has
> advantages to the consumer who wants to be able to keep his options open. It
> could be a good business opportunity.

OpenOffice (http://www.openoffice.org/) and its commercial incarnation,
StarOffice 6.0 (beta available from Sun) store their documents in a zip
file containing XML and the dependencies, like images. Very neat, IMHO.

Gerhard
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