On Sun, 30 Sep 2007, d ash wrote:
> Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 03:04:39 -0700 (PDT)
> From: d ash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [twincling] IBM launched free office tools
>
> hello everybody
>
> As mentioned about the "OpenOffice"
>
> what is the technical difference between "OpenOffice"and"MS Office" ?
>
> how is the usability different between the two applications ?
>
> thank u
> Ashwini.
>
Hello Ashwini:
OpenOffice.org project aim is to create - as a community,
the leading international office suite that will run on
. "all" major platforms and
. provide access to
. "all" functionality
. "all" data through open-component based APIs
and an XML-based file format
It has also pioneered the ISO/IEC standard OpenDocument file formats(ODF)
which it uses natively, by default.
Technically speaking, the OpenOffice API is based on a component technology
called 'Universal Network Objects (UNO). It consists of a wide range of
interfaces defined in a CORBA like IDL (interface definition language).
Please, take a look at
http://udk.openoffice.org/
I have been a user of OpenOffice since 2001 and it works fine on
FreeBSD, Linux, MacOS, Microsoft OS among others.
All the TWINCLING Society documentation, slides and brochures are prepared
using OpenOffice.
For information on MS Office, please visit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Office
thanks
Saifi.
