Open Office 3.0 Released
OpenOffice.org ver.3 is a freely available, full-featured office suite. OpenOffice can be run on number of different Operating Systems. It supports OpenDocument (ODF) format and Microsoft Office office( ‘97 - 2003) document format as a file format. The software suite includes word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation tools similar to the Microsoft Office suite.
The main features are highlighted as follows:
- A global collaboration suite with WEB 2.0 functionalities.
- New Personal Manager replaces Outlook
- Web 2.0 support: Creates WebLog and Wiki
- Calendar Client for Thunderbird: Connector to the Sun Java System Calendar Server, iCal, WeDAV and Goolge calendar. Also supports local and server based calendar.
- Support for PDF import, Hybrid PDF, PDF/A
- Creates Database report using the report engine “JFree”
- Provides new chart type like Regression Curve, 3D Exploded pie and better logarathim scale
- MS Office XML 2007 import
- Supports new platform Mac OS X
- Build openoffice.org integration with Netbeans more efficiently.