Pages or openoffice

Hi
I'm thinking of replacing our MS Office suite with pages (iwork) or Open Office.
There are a few reasons I would like iwork but there is one thing that bothers me and thats the proprietary fileformats. I would like to be able to use python, perl, java to be able to access files. Furthermore, if one uses iwork for a few years and decide to go with say Open Office or MS Office is there a way to do bacth conversions of pages and numbers files?
Anyone have any other thoughts on this?

Thomas
This has just been discussed a few posts previously:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2211751&tstart=0
…and the choice is hardly MsOffice, the clones or iWork:
http://www.freeforum101.com/iworktipsntrick/viewtopic.php?t=47&mforum=iworktipsn trick
Peter

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