At Long Last, NeoOffice/J 1.1 Released

VValdo writes "After nearly five years of development, NeoOffice/J has made it to its first stable release. NeoOffice/J 1.1 is a Mac OS X-integrated office suite based on OpenOffice.org 1.1.4 that includes word processing, spreadsheet, presentation and drawing applications. Key Macintosh features include a standard Mac OS X installer, a native Aqua menu bar, use of the native printing system, full clipboard support, drag-and-drop, Mac "command" key shortcuts, mouse scrolling, integration with major Mac email clients and native support for Mac fonts. The full announcement is here."

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5 Years???

[Anonymous Coward]

Key Macintosh features include a standard Mac OS X installer, a native Aqua menu bar, use of the native printing system, full clipboard support, drag-and-drop, Mac "command" key shortcuts, mouse scrolling, integration with major Mac email clients and native support for Mac fonts.

That took as long as 5 years? That's just sad. If they had outsourced that project to india or china they would made it in 5 months (I guess reading trivial patents made them lose so much time :-])

Ahh.. "trivial patents".. I live in europe and I'd already adapt to use them as an excuse for everything that goes slow or wrong.

Re:What if it were written in Java?

[m50d]

If it were written in Java you'd need an 8-way machine to run it. And it would look like ass. And it wouldn't be free enough. Java only relies on the base runtime being ported, yes, but it can only really be ported by Sun, and they're in no hurry to port it to obscure systems. Look at the trouble the BeOS people are having with it.

The great advantage of free software is that you have the source, so you can compile it on any platform. That lets it run faster too.

For free software that works on multiple platforms without recompiling I use python and tkinter or qt for the gui. I think the community as a whole is going for mono though.