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"As the Regional Director for Romania, attending the Document Interoperability Initiative event in London helped me tremendously to broaden my vision over the issue of document interoperability. As a result of the London event, I am committed towards introducing the audience in this part of the world to the issue of document interoperability and raise the awareness on the related issues."
- Ciprian Jichici, General Manager, Genisoft
"Microsoft's transparency in documenting the details of how Office has implemented ODF and Open XML helps all implementers improve interoperability with Office.  We look forward to continuing to work with them on improving the interoperability of our products, and we encourage other implementers to participate as well."
- Florian Reuter, Novell
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March 29, 2008

Beijing, China

Over one hundred people attended the two day event, including government officials, e-government experts, standards body representatives, leaders in open source-oriented enterprises, and developers from 54 vendors, including architects and developers from 4 major Chinese office productivity tool vendors. Many of the Chinese vendors participating build information worker products and the discussion focused largely on the interoperability challenges between the Uniform Office Format (UOF) and OpenXML. Feedback from this event led to the launch of the effort by Beihang University to develop UOF to Open XML translators for spreadsheet and presentation documents; more information can be found at http://uof-translator.sourceforge.net/. Vendors who participated in the event stated that it is important that they come together on a regular basis to address ongoing issues and challenges associated with document interoperability.


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