Comments on: A decent office app on the Mac?

By: Steve Jacobs

Steve Jacobs — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 14:19:22 +0000

Projity has released an open source replacement to Microsoft Project that runs on Mac’s This complements OpenOffice and the others since Project is part of the “Office family” http://www.openproj.org

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 10:51:07 +0000

Thanks Eric. Wow, it’s great to get feedback from the lead Mac OpenOffice.org developer!

I’ve updated the post to mention the second snapshot.

Great work with the Aqua port - I’m really looking forward to seeing how it turns out. And the best of luck with the project.

By: ericb

ericb — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 10:37:22 +0000

Hello,

I’m surprised to see you only mention the first development snapshot of Aqua OpenOffice.org, while a second one is available since more than a month.

Please have a look at :http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/news/index.html

FYI, we’ll present a Carbon version for OOocon2007 ( Barcelona 18th September), but Cocoa ( real Cocoa port) already started. A lot has to be done, but it already works.

Developers are warmly welcome

And if you wan’t to contribute (donations), feel free to use the Paypal button you’ll find: http://www.cusoo.org/spip/ (don’t forget to mention this is for Mac OS X port )

Eric Bachard
Mac OS X porting project Lead, for OpenOffice.org project

By: Si

Si — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 09:08:46 +0000

This is totally true. Most of the current Office apps are just poo. Best of the bunch so far for me is iWork, which feels like it should be on the mac, is relatively speedy and doesn’t cost a bomb.

I think I’ve reconciled myself t the fact that .doc and .xls are effectively the industry standard. I don’t moan about .PSD files after all…