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  Novell Boosts OpenOffice.org and Microsoft Office Interoperability
Time: 02:05 EST/07:05 GMT | News Source: *Linked Within Post* | Posted By: Kenneth van Surksum

Novell today announced that the Novell(R) edition of the OpenOffice.org office productivity suite will now support the Office Open XML format, increasing interoperability between OpenOffice.org and the next generation of Microsoft Office. Novell is cooperating with Microsoft and others on a project to create bi-directional open source translators for word processing, spreadsheets and presentations between OpenOffice.org and Microsoft Office, with the word processing translator to be available first, by the end of January 2007.

The translators will be made available as plug-ins to Novell's OpenOffice.org product. Novell will release the code to integrate the Open XML format into its product as open source and submit it for inclusion in the OpenOffice.org project. As a result, end users will be able to more easily share files between Microsoft Office and OpenOffice.org, as documents will better maintain consistent formats, formulas and style templates across the two office productivity suites.

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#1 By 7390 (71.125.38.82) at Tuesday, December 05, 2006 11:26:16 AM
I thought that this product dies along with Novell...I am shocked that they are still around

oh how the might have fallen. I rememer having to learn Novell crap in school as part of my com sci courses. And now...this is truly sad

#2 By 37 (76.210.78.134) at Tuesday, December 05, 2006 12:19:45 PM
OpenOffice is pretty much history, not sure why they bother.

#3 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at Tuesday, December 05, 2006 03:47:29 PM
Novell is tainted with the Mark of the Beast.




 

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