Novell has agreed to add support for Ecma Open XML in the OpenOffice suite by leveraging the open source translator project that we kicked-off several months ago. The support for Open XML is slated for early 2007.

Late last week, Corel also announced support for Open XML in Word Perfect. Once these projects are complete, users will have the ability to read and write Open XML documents from 3 major office productivity suites. Additionally, there are several interesting projects going on in the developer community that leverage the interoperability benefits of Open XML currently. Many of these can be found at http://www.openxmldeveloper.org.