spinynorman Posted September 11, 2007 Report Share Posted September 11, 2007 IBM is joining the OpenOffice.org development community, kicking off its participation by donating code it has developed for its Lotus Notes project and promising to contribute to improving the "feature richness and code quality" of OpenOffice.org. More at The Register. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted September 12, 2007 Report Share Posted September 12, 2007 With IBMs backing, OpenOffice will definitely become more "mainstream" in the future. That's good news indeed. :) We use OOo at our newspaper already (due to the many viruses that affect MS Office and then cripple the whole Windows network by exploiting vulnerabilities) and with a lot of uccess, but if I want to share documents with outsiders, I am still forced to submit them in a MS Office compatible format (.rtf, .doc, ...) or as PDF on a regular basis, which is a downside. That could change in a few years however. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted September 12, 2007 Report Share Posted September 12, 2007 I noticed format loss when saving as .doc. I've been sending as PDF usually now due to the problems I was getting all the time. Besides, if you send in OpenOffice format, I'm sure it's easy for people to download it easily enough :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reiver_Fluffi Posted September 19, 2007 Report Share Posted September 19, 2007 Just a week later IBM and Openoffice.org are back in the news: http://www.news.com/IBM+to+offer+office+so...ml?tag=nefd.top Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mindwave Posted September 20, 2007 Report Share Posted September 20, 2007 Just a week later IBM and Openoffice.org are back in the news: http://www.news.com/IBM+to+offer+office+so...ml?tag=nefd.top and referencing my other post heres where you can get YOURS https://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/iwm/w...amp;S_PKG=lnxdl just create a free account and download away. BTW choose the alternate servers. the MAIN Linux server too 11 hours, he alternate to 20 minutes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonEberger Posted September 20, 2007 Report Share Posted September 20, 2007 (edited) i say good for IBM. i had to buy office 2007 because of research done with some govt. agencies which only take word docs. i installed this monstrous software suite (about 600 MB) which then required another 4x MB of security updates. it saves by default to the .docx format too. as of now, i still try to get used to the new "tabs" layout, but am contemplating going back to the good 'ol drop-down menu style. i cannot understand for the life of me why everyone doesn't just automatically convert to openoffice. i know that .doc, .ppt files sometimes lose formatting in teh coversion. but, seriously, it doesn't take a financial wizard to understand that if i cut out a per-seat license of office from my business budget, i will save money. especially as you consider this has to be done (seemingly) semi-annually. as arctic mentioned, it saves times as far as malicious attacks go too. btw, if you use the ooimpress presentation software, you might want to consider the ooolatex project. i use latex for my papers and publications and it's so much better than using an equation editor. sorry for the rant, jon Edited September 20, 2007 by JonEberger Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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