Mozilla Messaging. OpenOffice 3.0 Wants to Compete with Outlook - CyberNet News. I was just over at the OpenOffice site browsing through some of their marketing materials to see if there was anything interesting. I came across a presentation that was given on September 19th at the OpenOffice 2007 Conference. The presentation was called “OpenOffice.org 3.0 and Beyond,” and it walked through some of the most notable features that are expected to be released in the next big OpenOffice milestone. The presentation was actually pretty interesting to flip through, but the one thing that really caught my attention was their reference to including a Personal Information Manager (PIM). More specifically the presentation mentions bundling Thunderbird with their Office Suite, and refers to it as an “Outlook replacement.”
This is all assuming that Thunderbird recently losing two of it’s main developers doesn’t affect the decision, because I’m sure OpenOffice wants to ensure that Thunderbird will continue to progress before including it. IBM Joins OpenOffice.org Community. Edinburgh, UK (PRWEB) September 10, 2007 The OpenOffice.org community today announced that IBM will be joining the community to collaborate on the development of OpenOffice.org software. IBM will be making initial code contributions that it has been developing as part of its Lotus Notes product, including accessibility enhancements, and will be making ongoing contributions to the feature richness and code quality of OpenOffice.org. Besides working with the community on the free productivity suite's software, IBM will also leverage OpenOffice.org technology in its products. "This is great news for the tens of millions of users of OpenOffice.org and the thousands of individual members of the community", said John McCreesh, OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Lead.
"We welcome IBM's contributions to further enhancing the OpenOffice.org product. "IBM is very pleased to be joining the OpenOffice.org community. OpenOffice.org® is the leading open-source productivity suite. Press Contacts Links. OpenSAM Simple Ajax Mashup Techniques. Daniel Carrera on the Web. Watching the ODF - OOXML Debate - O'Reilly XML Blog.