documentation versioning

[Derek Neighbors]

> I'm interested in having a version control system for our business
> documents. I liked Abiword, since it stored it's documents in XML, which
> made it very easy to use with CVS. However, I like the rich set of

Open Office also stores in XML format, it is just compressed. 
Unfortunately current releases dont let you work with documents not in the
compressed format.

One thing you could do is write a cvs script that on checkin/out
compress/decompresses the document, though this is ugly.

> features that StarOffice and OpenOffice.org have. I noticed that
> StarOffice has built-in version control. What other alternatives are
> there? Keep in mind that this is a heterogeneous environment, so it must

While it does interal document versioning, I dont think it would suffice
for a replacement to more collaborative versioning.

> be MS friendly.
> I'm leaning toward StarOffice since i can save-as MS word documents and
> let the microsoft weened people do their work in MS-word, give it to me,
> and i can merge it with StarOffice.

-Derek