The lack of formula specificity in ODF 1.0 meant that certain aspects of storing spreadsheet formulas were up to the application developer to define, which could lead to incompatibility between documents created with dif?íferent ODF implementations. The latest ver?ísion of ODF includes accessibility and metadata enhancements, as well as a means of specifying spreadsheet formulas that’s more detailed than what was laid out in ODF 1.0. supports the new?íest version of the OpenDocument file format, ODF 1.2. Previous itera?ítions required the X11 server to run, which made a bit of a misfit on the OS X desktop. New in version 3 is native support for Apple’s OS X. Both the Windows and Linux flavors of are available in both 32- and 64-bit x86 editions. Since is free to download and take for a spin, it’s certainly worth giving the suite a run in your environment to judge for yourself.Īs in previous versions, OpenOf?í 3.0 runs on Windows, Linux, Solaris x86 and Solaris Sparc. I also tested a beta release of StarOffice 9, which is the commercial version of for which Sun offers support and intellectual property indemnification.Īs with previous versions of the suites, the extent to which OpenOf?Ã or StarOffice can serve effec?Ãtively as a replacement to Microsoft Office will depend on the features and documents you use in your orga?Ãnization. I tested 3.0 in a near-final RC3 version, and was pleased with the progress that the project has made toward improving format compatibility and feature parity with Microsoft Office. While hasn’t achieved the same measure of mainstream adoption as its ideological cousin, the Firefox Web browser, the freely available office suite has helped advance the state of file format standardization, to the extent that Microsoft first developed its own open file format and is now prepared to include support for the ISO-standard OpenDocument format in Office 2007. Now, nine years later, Sun is on the verge of a major 3.0 release of the project that grew up around that code base,. When Sun Microsystems bought the little-known StarOffice productivity suite in 1999, and soon thereafter released the product’s code base as open-source software, it was unclear how far the arguably quixotic initiative might reach-and what damage it could possibly wreak on Microsoft’s ironclad grip on the office productivity market.
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