OpenOffice 3.0 – online
One of the significant news for the Future of Documents last week was of course the launch of Open Office 3.0 which was very successful – if not too successful !
It’s free, works on all major platforms – Linux, Solaris, Mac, and of course Windows. Many improvements, including better image, table, and note management, an improved User Interface, makes it well worth trying. It can read its main competitor’s (Microsoft 2007) file formats. It can also output documents into Office 2003 files – although you probably want to stick to using ODF, which is the future XML standard for documents, and should ensure long-term portability and preservation of your native electronic documents.
But what’s even more interesting is that it can also be made available through your browser – Ulteo, a new Open Source project that delivers software applications to web browsers, gives full access to OpenOffice 3.0 in a browser, and adds its virtual desktop and on-and offline syncing capabilities!
Definitely worth the test – provided your corporate firewall is not blocking access…
