Open Document Format Alliance

The OpenDocument Format Alliance is an association for the promotion of the Open Document Format, based in Washington, DC.

It was founded on March 3, 2006 by 36 companies and had mid-July 2006 and already 277 members in June 2007 already 412 members in over 50 countries. The most important IT companies in the alliance are IBM, Oracle, Sun Microsystems and Google. In addition, Novell, Opera Software, Red Hat, and other well-known names are found. In addition, the Massachusetts High Tech Council and the Massachusetts Network Communications Council participate.

The ODF Alliance wants to convince especially governments and authorities from the future to use the OASIS defined OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications.

She has the standardization process for the Open Document Format with the International Organization for Standardization ( ISO) ( draft standard ISO / IEC DIS 26300 ) supported. Meanwhile, the format has been certified by the ISO. It is already being used by many governments.

As a kind of counterweight Microsoft co-founded Apple, Intel and Toshiba, the Open XML Formats Developer Group to promote their own development Open XML.