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Openoffice.org to port a mac-native version soon

Great news for mac users! The open source office suite is coming to a Macintosh near you, Sun is planning to port a native version of OO.o for aqua.

When I was on a mac, I used neo office, a distro of OO.o tailored for the mac, but I guess having the original would be a much better idea. Neo office did crash often and was in constant beta. I am not on an ubuntu box which comes pre-installed with the Openoffice.org suite of apps – a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation app and a database app – all of them, even if they’re not as user friendly as MS office, are very stable and get the work done, I suppose an aqua open office would be much better to look at than the one on ubuntu or windows.

From the announcement on Sun’s blog:

Some may ask: Why is Sun joining the Mac porting project? If you look around at conferences and airport lounges, you will notice that more and more people are using Apple notebooks these days. Apple has a significant market share in the desktop space. We are supporting this port because of the interest and activity of the community wanting this port. The new invigorated effort in Mac/Aqua-porting (basically since CWS aquavcl01) is an obvious indicator. I think this is the right way to go to make OOo on Mac as good as or even better than the other ports. Add in the growing Mac community as a whole and suddenly from Sun’s point of view Mac has a higher value since our strategy is to be multi-platform capable.

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