● 03.14.07

●● OpenOffice Novell Edition… for… Windows?!?!

Posted in Novell, Office Suites, OpenOffice, Windows at 6:35 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

We choose not to comment on this news, but you be the judge, based on the following gist:

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Features in the Novell Edition

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Let’s consider a couple of the features that you get in the Novell Edition but are not likely to have been integrated into upstream OOo yet:Excel VBA Macro executionPerformance improvementsAGFA fontsBetter Bullets (now in upstream OOo)Simple SolverGroupWise integration

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Why a Windows Version?

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If Novell is so interested in the success of Linux, then why would they produce a Windows edition of OpenOffice.org? Isn’t that a contradiction?

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Let us not forget the controversial inclusion of Open XML.

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