Sun Microsystems to help develop a Mac-native version of OpenOffice
May 4th, 2007 Leave a comment Visited 43 times, 1 so far today
Sun Microsystems to help develop a Mac-native version of OpenOffice
Philip Lohmann, project lead for the Graphic System Layer Project has written in a blog posting that Sun Microsystems has added its support to the effort to bring forth a Mac-native version of OpenOffice.
OpenOffice is already available on the Apple Mac platform but it currently uses X11, the windowing system designed to work with UNIX applications.
Lohmann wrote: “The MacOSX porting history is basically as old as OpenOffice.org itself. Practically from the start there was the plan to have a native version for Mac; however as a first step the community decided to produce an X11 port which – since OOo already had several X11 ports from the start – seemed to be a good way to get a version quickly as temporary solution.”
He is now going to work along with Sun developer Herbert Dürr on the Mac-native OpenOffice release. He further said that they are expecting some other Sun developers to join the project.
Lohmann further said: “Some may ask: Why is Sun joining the Mac porting project? If you look around at conferences and airport lounges, you will notice that more and more people are using Apple notebooks these days. Apple has a significant market share in the desktop space. We are supporting this port because of the interest and activity of the community wanting this port.”
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May 4th, 2007 at 02:56 pm
NeoOffice 2.1 already runs in Mac-native format and works great. Most people that use a Mac’s already know this and use it. Not sure why the writer didn’t already know this??