On which day OpenOffice.org 3.2 will be finally released? 2010/1/7 Alexandro Colorado <[email protected]>
> > > On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 7:15 PM, Spartacvs <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I'm a 46 y/o guy working on a 2nd career in New York.. >> >> >> I did a search on the archive and only saw one post that pertained to this >> topic from 12/2007. >> >> At >> this point the ipod touch has changed quite a bit and I was wondering >> if there's been any interest in creating openoffice apps for the iPod. >> >> OpenOffice is a great piece of work and it's open source ideals should be >> included on the iPod. Where do we start? >> >> Best Regards, >> Spartacvs >> > > I am not sure how Ipod represent a great oportunity. Mobiles change way > faster than desktop OS, not only that but Ipod would be WORST platform to > try to develop upon since is very tightly controlled by Apple. Android and > Maemo from Nokia represent a much better area since there is no penetrartion > barrier to enter plus has a better way to interact. However, OOo is a 17 > million line code app, so changing the platform is not trivial and could > become a very hard task to achieve especially since most of the code is C++ > and already using many of our resources to mantain it. I did a calculation > and would cost around 50 million dollars just to have a cludge app running > on mobiles. > What I am looking at is that many phones like the NeoRunner already are > running a Native Linux implementation which will include OOo. There was also > companies doing remote machine to include FLOSS software like OOo and Gimp. > Doing a googling also found viewers that can read ODT on the iphone (but > not edit) > http://www.digidna.net/fileapp/ > > For Symbian OS there is also VisorODF from spanish consortium CENATIC > http://visorodfmovil.morfeo-project.org/ > > For Blackberry it seems IBM is taking the lead supporting ODF under their > Lotus platform: > > http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Mobile-and-Wireless/RIM-Now-Supports-IBM-Lotus-Quickr-Lotus-Symphony-on-Smart-Phones/?kc=EWKNLWMU01222009STR1 > > Finally for MaemoOS (which is linux) you can see Nokia sponsoring KOffice > to create a full KOffice suite on Maemo: > > http://www.phonesreview.co.uk/2009/11/25/koffice-21-released-and-for-nokia-n900/ > > Android can arguably benefit from the MaemoOS move from KOffice but also > use a project created by the JODConverter guys Offiviewer: > http://artofsolving.com/node/46 > > -- > Alexandro Colorado > OpenOffice.org Español > IM: [email protected] > > -- Marius Popa
