CNET News: Novell to Support Microsoft Office Documents

"Novell said Monday it is participating in an open-source project designed to bridge rival document formats and thus enable its OpenOffice.org customers to work with Microsoft Office documents.

"Novell, a business software maker, distributes its own edition of the open-source desktop productivity suite OpenOffice. The programs in it save documents in the OpenDocument format, or ODF, which is a standard created by several companies..."

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