“In a May 3, 2007 blog post, Philipp Lohmann of Sun Microsystems states that Sun engineering will add it’s support to the ongoing Mac/Aqua porting effort currently underway for OpenOffice,” Switch To A Mac reports.
STAM reports, “In his post Lohmann provides a brief history about the porting effort for OpenOffice and then indicates that he another Sun engineers will assist in the porting effort.”
“Lohmann [also] cites an increase in Mac use as a reason that Sun is joining the porting effort when he states,” STAM reports.
Full article here.
Lohmann’s “OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun” blog post here.
OpenOffice info: http://www.openoffice.org/
But will it run VBA Macros in (Open Source) Excel?
YEEEEEESSSS!
Excellent. This is an attack on Microsoft’s financial base — a good target. We need to starve the beast as a strategy to kill it.
That’s the first site I’ve seen that actually looks more cluttered than MDN. Bravo.
The fact that this is the first article I’ve read from them combined with their sloppy proofing will prevent me from ever visiting the site again.
What about NeoOffice? I thought they were doing the port of OpenOffice to the Mac? It’s what I’ve been using for a while, both on PowerPC and Intel boxes
http://www.neooffice.org
Does OpenOffice have any formatting issues? When I used NeoOffice, I had issues with bullets in writer and presentation. If there were other formatting quirks in NeoOffice, I didn’t see them.
It’s “Add its support,” not “Add it’s support.”
@ Namcam,
I’m sure you are breaking hearts all across the countryside. Why don’t you start your own Mac enthusiast site? You could make it as clean as you like. Buh-Bye
Yea.
Hey ladies, gentalman, woo sound cool huh,,
PS: I like this site,
Office is a pig, ,! To make a letter take so much time etc, I use wordpad or text edit , for letters
Word is , ar
PSS: I wnt to come america,
Why do ppl use it please ,
Anthony
Are they ever going to update the OpenOffice interface? It’s so old looking, with those gray toolbars and what not. I still use it because it’s free and not ms, but it seriously needs some updating. Give me palettes, or something better!
@Awesome
I’m assuming you meant to say, “I want to come to America. Otherwise, you’re on the wrong site.
E of E
“What about NeoOffice? I thought they were doing the port of OpenOffice to the Mac? It’s what I’ve been using for a while, both on PowerPC and Intel boxes”
They are doing a port, but it’s always after the event and the core OO product always has its features tailored to Windows, Solaris and Linux. This was OSX is going to be considered at the design stage, rather than the NeoOffice people having to jump through hoops afterwards to get certain features working with Aqua.
about bloody time too, get this thing on track
It needs a two page view as NeoOffice cannot display side by side pages like MS Word.
Looking at the screen shots for the upcoming aqua version it still looks very windows like.
http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/screenshots/ooo-aqua/index.html
Yeah! Open Document format! Woohoo!
Open Office and Neo Office look like Word 1998 what is the big deal!!
@ Awsome –
Sounds like a premise for a new Screenplay….
“I want to come America” … the story of a washed out Syndicated DJ, who in a fit of rage, proclaims his dire need above and beyond his ego and into his id. A slight slip-up on the airwaves like this gets him the attention of the Pop Media and inside of 48 hours, he becomes the poster boy of the New American Angst movement seeking to remove all advertising, marketing and commercials from american media.
Driven by this new found fame, our protagonist does in fact begin to ‘come’ across america, leaving many a hotel room each day filled with heartfelt albeit horny women.
After many weeks at the #1 spot on the Arbitron ratings, a scanal erupts (err.. unfolds) when America learns that our tragic hero actually got fired from the station the day he made the comment ” I want to come America” . The radio Station had been heavily editing old recordings of his show and that he was actually sounding better in this format because of the editing. Immediately, he loses credibiltiy and withins days he is broke, poor and unemployed. (moral to the story is – if you find yourself an overnight success, don’t blow it.)