[wellylug] OpenOffice.org & IBM

[Rob Giltrap]

With version 3.0 (due out in 12 months) there is going to be some major 
performance rework including a new threading model which should 
substantially improve startup/load times especially on dual core machines.

David Harrison wrote:
> As long as these guys can make OO load itself and the documents it  
> creates as fast as MS Office can I'll be happy....
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> On 19/09/2007, at 11:16 AM, Rob Giltrap wrote:
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>> This is huge...
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>> http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/18/technology/18blue.html
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>> Finally IBM are 'officially' getting in behind OpenOffice.org and
>> releasing it as "IBM Lotus Symphony"
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>> IBM has been involved behind the scenes on OOo for quite some time but
>> now it's all go.
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>> Having used OpenOffice / StarOffice as my office suite for both  
>> home and
>> work for seven years now all I can say it is about time it is getting
>> the broader support (IBM & Google) so that it can more easily  
>> become the
>> majority supported office suite in the market.
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>> Rob
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