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Sun Joins Mac Open Office Development

Posted by kdawson on from the bye-bye-X11 dept.

widhalmt writes "In a blog post, a developer at Sun Microsystems announces that Sun will help with porting Open Office to Mac OS X. The open source office suite is well known on Linux and Windows, but does not have a native version on Mac OS. For a long time Sun did not want to join the development of that port but now they will actively push it."

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  1. Re:Not true! NeoOffice! by falcon5768 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    maybe. What Im more hoping for is the NeoOffice guys and Sun will bury the hatchet and work together on this, since the point of contention between the teams is now moot.

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  2. Amazing by Praxxus · · Score: 4, Interesting

    First we get news that Microsoft was recently acting all Mac Happy, and now Sun is acting Mac Happy. My, my, my, but these coincidences of timing in the software world never cease to boggle the mind!

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  3. Will they unarchive? by Frequency+Domain · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Sun already owns the rights to Lighthouse Design's application suite. Since these were originally developed for NeXTstep/OpenStep, they should be relatively easy to migrate to Cocoa. I'd sure like to see an Improv/Quantrix like spreadsheet tool put a stake through the heart of Excel!

  4. Improv by jefu · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Having Improv back would be wonderful. The best spreadsheet I've ever used - using Improv made using Excel or other grid based spreadsheets painful.

    But then too, there was also this oddball thing called (I think, its been some years) "Advance", I only had a couple weeks to play with a test copy. Very powerful, rather strange. I'd like to have that back to play with too.

  5. Port it all you want... by HerculesMO · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It still pales in comparison to MS Office.

    Yes, I am complimenting Microsoft -- I am sure I'll be flamed for it. But frankly, they make the best office suite, and since theirs is the standard look and feel (although the new Office is a departure), the other guys have to play catchup.

    I would love to use OpenOffice, I just hate the look and feel and have always been more comfortable in Microsoft Office.

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