What Does Open Office 3.0 have?
The Open Source community is celebrating another major achievement with the recent release of the final version of OpenOffice 3. OpenOffice has been very successful since its introduction.
The hype surrounding OpenOffice is understandable because it is long touted as the software which could potentially challenge the dominance of one of the most profitable business softwares ever produced – Microsoft Office.
OpenOffice has several major advantages over Microsoft Office.
- It is a free software and can be used for any purposes without licensing fee obligations.
- It is available for various platforms such as Windows, Linux, Solaris and even Apple Mac.
- Due to its open source nature, anyone can participate in its development and improvement, making it easier to eliminate bugs and request new features.
OpenOffice 3 is a suite consisting of 6 applications: word proccessor Writer, spreadsheet Calc, presentations program Impress, database program Base, equation editor Math and graphics program Draw. Read the rest of this entry →
