Dear OpenOffice Team, I wonder about postings about resource shortage and allocation to something else in the development mailing list for the mac aqua port regarding a delay to version 3. Did Sun realize the increase in apple mac sales and popularity? Some companies had been already late in Linux and open source on servers. Apple was always pioneering new technologies in the market. Their customers are the trendsetter best described in Malcolm Gladwells book "the tipping point". X11 on mac is a hurdle, printing is a surprise regarding colors, shortcuts are Unix like and the look is rough. I really do appreciate Open Office and the undergoing development of a bibliography functional for every day scientific publishing. Microsoft Office was not really stable on my previous powerbook, now I use NeoOffice an a Intel Macbook. Beside a native mac port I consider the educational and university system a good starting point to delight more users with the overall very usable and stable OO suite, resp. Sun StarOffice. In other words: with limited power and resources the way to spread innovations is the snowball pattern;-) Ordinary consumer trust the advice of experts in their circle of friends but are shy to leave the MS dictatorship on their own.
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