OpenOffice9 the year’s harvest is long be about to replace Office

October 11, 2008

[news of plan world network] (diversiform-leaved poplar is compiled) the Jason Brooks of EWEEK lab says, after company of Sun small system buys StarOffice company 9 years, openOffice.org(OOo) plans to prepare to roll out its 3 release edition. Buildup format compatibility and function make OpenOffice.org can be rivalled with the Office photograph of Microsoft.

When Sun small system company bought little known StarOffice office package 1999 and very fast when regarding source software as the code library of this software, people does not know this open to question plan that is full of an illusion can go much further, and the position that this software will give Microsoft keep a firm hand on office software market brings how old destruction.

Now, went 9 years, sun is about to release the 3 version of this plan. This is around OpenOfficeorg code the library grows the product that rise. Although OOo did not achieve red fox browser,the mainstream of the sort of same standard uses rate, but, this kind of free office software has helped the development that promoted file format to standardize condition, so that drove Microsoft to develop his open file standard above all, and prepare now the OpenDocument form of this international standard supports in Office 2007.

Brooks says, he checked OOo 3.0 to be close to finish the 3rd await anthology release edition, improving compatibility and the functional field place that rival with Microsoft Office to obtain progress to feel very satisfactory to this software. He still tested StarOffice 9 test version. This is the commercial version of OOo. Sun offerred the disclaimer of technical support and intellectual property for this software.

The Mac OS X of OpenOffice.org gives birth to supportive version to will be released in next year formerly

December 18, 2007

OpenOffice.org is preparing to provide primary strange support to Mac OS X, and the OOo of Linux and Windows platform is early had moved old.
Since 2005, OOo can move on OS X, but the support that needs X11 environment, and this summer, development staff had offerred the OOo of version of the first former unripe OS X, in other words, it can resemble normal OS X procedure very quickly same independence is installed and moving, and won’t appear below X11 again all sorts of peculiar problems. The product will be released in next year.

OpenOffice 2.3.0 is released formally

December 3, 2007

OpenOffice.org just released newest office to cover a 2.3 edition, can have downloaded now, core component is included multinomial new function and increase, and solved a batch of safe problems.
This is main newer, recommend all users to install, notable is it still supports Extensions library. You can use those who include P2P inside a variety of methods will obtain.

Latest news: IBM joins OpenOffice.org to offer Lotus Notes code

November 28, 2007

In the development efforts group that blue giant had brought into him OpenOffice software, become this the most welcome office opening a source to cover one of authors.
The contract that comes from Big Blue alleges, they will offer the source code that comes from Lotus Notes to give OpenOffice, in order to strengthen the function of OOo, at the same time IBM also will use the technology in OOo, progress jointly.