On Nov 19, at 9:34 AM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer wrote: > Please explain "Open Office"
Open Office [1] is a freeware office suite containing a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation program, database and more. It can read and write Microsoft Office files, although that is not its native file format. It is open source and completely free. Since it originated in the Unix world, the purest form of Open Office is designed to run under X-windows, the graphical user interface for most Unix machines. Since most non-Unix types don't want to run the X-windows version, people have ported Open Office to other windowing systems such as Microsoft Windows. NeoOffice [2] is the most advanced port to Mac OS X available right now. (There is a native X-windows version [4] for the Mac and a native Aqua version [3] in development.) NeoOffice is a Java- based front end and it sometimes shows this by taking its time starting up on slower machines, although this has been greatly improved in newer releases. All versions of Open Office have the same features and use the same file formats so there is no problem sharing NeoOffice files with others using a different flavor of Open Office. [1] <http://www.openoffice.org/> [2] <http://www.neooffice.org/> [3] <http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/download/aqua.html> [4] <http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/download/index.html> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 2452 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20071119/257ae065/attachment.bin
