Novell "Forking" OpenOffice.org

l2718 writes to mention that In the wake of their recent deal with Microsoft, Novell has announced a new version of OpenOffice.org which will support Microsoft's planned Office formal, Open XML. From the article: "The translators will be made available as plug-ins to Novell's OpenOffice.org product. Novell will release the code to integrate the Open XML format into its product as open source and submit it for inclusion in the OpenOffice.org project. As a result, end users will be able to more easily share files between Microsoft Office and OpenOffice.org, as documents will better maintain consistent formats, formulas and style templates across the two office productivity suites."

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Testing RedHat

[NullProg]

Were testing RedHat as a replacement for all our SLES/SuSE clients. Testing should be done next week.
When is Novell going to compensate thier current clients that have been using OpenOffice and Samba for years? Lost sales, way to go Novell. Alienate current clients and move them to a different distribution.
There is a reason I dumped your stock after OpenSuSE.

Enjoy.