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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 myspys · · Score: 0, Troll

    I would LOVE to use NeoOffice, but the fact that it SUCKS remains I'm afraid.

    I have tried and tried to use it, but it's crap at converting/reading Word documents (might be OOo, not the actual port) but the biggest problem i have with NeoOffice is the start-up time.

    On my Intel MacBook Pro it takes well over a minute to start(!)

    (call me flamebait!)

  2. nagware, opens browser windows to author homepage by SuperBanana · · Score: 1, Troll

    NeoOffice is an independently developed version of OpenOffice.org 2.1 which runs on Mac OS X natively and without the need for X11. I've been using it for years.

    It was useable until it started opening Safari on launch and close- loading a page nagging me to give them money.

    The unprofessionalism of that is absolutely staggering. The only other application I know of that does this is Acquisition- probably the most nag-laden software ever written.

    --
    Please help metamoderate.
  3. What's "Open Office"? by Falladir · · Score: 0, Troll

    What's "Open Office"? Is it related to OpenOffice.org?