![]() Created in 2000 by Sun, OpenOffice has been downloaded nearly 100 million times, according to Sun.Apache OpenOffice is an open-source office productivity software suite containing word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, graphics, formula editor, and database management applications. It is interoperable with other popular suites and may be used free of charge for any purpose, private or commercial, under its GNU Lesser General Public License. OpenOffice runs on all major platforms, including Windows, Vista, Linux, Solaris and Mac OS X, and is available in more than 100 languages. includes word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing, database and other modules and uses ODF as its native file format it also fully supports other common file formats, including Microsoft Office. ODF is a once-in-a-generation opportunity for the IT industry to unify round a standard, and deliver lasting benefit to users of desktop technology.” But equally important is IBM’s future commitment to package and distribute new works that leverage technology supporting the ISO ODF standard. John McCreesh, marketing project lead, said in a statement that the IBM move is “great news for the tens of millions of users of and the thousands of individual members of the project. The community is very happy about this and is looking forward to working with IBM.” Another benefit is that IBM will add these things into many of their existing products, which are distributed worldwide, he said. ![]() “What it’s doing for us is not only enhancing the community by expanding it,” but adding future richness and additional ODF technology to the project, Suarez-Potts said. for the project, called IBM’s announcement “extremely important.” Louis Suarez-Potts, the community manager at Sun Microsystems Inc. IBM will dedicate a core team of 35 programmers in China to the OpenOffice project, but more people will be added as needed around the world, he said. The reason for the move, Heintzman said, is that IBM is anticipates shifting demand from customers, changing specifications and wider adoption of ODF, as well as other changes expected in future office applications. All future Lotus and IBM products that incorporate OpenOffice code will use code from the community rather than from what had been IBM’s forked version of the project. “We decided that the time was right,” Heintzman said. With Monday’s announcement, the company will stop work on its own version of OpenOffice. Previously, IBM had been doing this work outside of the OpenOffice community. To build on those features from OpenOffice, IBM Lotus developers built and enhanced accessibility features for visually impaired and other handicapped users, he said. By incorporating OpenOffice features, Lotus Notes 8 gained integrated office applications that seamlessly work within the application, he said. In an announcement Monday, IBM said that by joining the effort directly, it hopes to develop feature enhancements and help push broader adoption of the OpenDocument format (ODF) standard used in the suite.ĭoug Heintzman, director of strategy for IBM’s Lotus collaboration division, said IBM has been using OpenOffice code for the past several years to create its own version of the office applications integrated into the Lotus Notes 8 collaboration suite. IBM has gotten so much from the office suite to enhance its own products that the company has decided to finally give back in a big way: It’s joining the open-source project and will contribute code, developers and other resources for free. ![]() Artificial Intelligence (816) Auto Tech (33) Blockchain (152) CanadianCIO (88) Careers & Education (4419) Channel Strategy (23) Cloud (2015) Communications & Telecom (354) Companies (760) Data & Analytics (1260) Development (659) Digital Transformation (1174) Distribution (124) Diversity & Inclusion (47) Ecommerce (83) Emerging Tech (24153) End User Hardware (31) Engineering (79) Financial (118) FinTech (80) Future of Work (319) Governance (95) Government & Public Sector (6000) Human Resources (803) Infrastructure (8492) IoT (6166) ITWC Morning Briefing (111) Leadership (4258) Legal (117) Legislation (129) Managed Services & Outsourcing (4302) Marketing (56) MarTech (3) Medical (20) Mobility (3416) Not For Profit (17) Open Source (27) Operations (68) People (101) Podcasts (1941) Privacy (586) Project Management (1099) Security (7611) Service (38) Smart Home (15) SMB (54) Social Networks (161) Software (4132) Supply Chain (111) Sustainability (79) Tech in Sports (4) Women in Tech (174) ![]()
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