Slashdot | UOF Vies to Be a Third Contender in ODF–OOXML Battle
Ákos Maróy
OF, for Uniform Office Format, and it has been under development in
China since 2002. Last summer, UOF was adopted as a Chinese National
Standard, and on Friday the first complete office suite based upon UOF
was released. It's called Evermore Integrated Office 2009 (EIOffice 2009
for short). How successful could this new entrant be in China? For
starters, Evermore Software Co. Ltd., its developer, is reportedly the
largest software vendor to the Chinese government. And then there's
price: Evermore's professional edition is less than a quarter of the
price of the comparable version of Office 2007. And finally, it's
clearly no coincidence that on July 11, Evermore Vice President Cao Shen
called for Microsoft to be the first target for China's new
anti-monopoly law, which will take effect in just ten days' time.