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Hmm, me too, and Wikipedia says:

> OpenDocument - Initial release: 1 May 2005; 18 years ago

> SQLite - Initial release: 17 August 2000; 23 years ago

Wonder what gives.

OpenDocument traces it's ancestry to OpenOffice XML format, which traces it's ancestry to StarOffice, which was xmlized around the time Sun bought it in 1999

Not to be confused with Office Open XML (OOXML), Microsoft's "standard".

That's fair, I wouldn't standardize on a 1-year-old database.

Thanks for clarifying the somewhat messy history of the format!

Hah - that tallies with my instinct on ODF at least. I'm confused too, then.

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