Submitted by OOoCon 2005 started today in Koper, Slovenia. Anyone interested to take a part in it are welcome to join us. Everyone else are invited to OpenPages live coverage with constantly updated gallery, video and audio archive and links to live video stream from the main hall (scheduled for tomorrow). In related news, it seems that that OOo 2.0.0rc1 is close to being released.
I’ve been using only the beta2 of the OpenOffice suite for a few weeks now and I haven’t still decided whether it will replace my MS Office Suite or not. It’s all about these small things that makes you realize that the later will not be instantly forgotten (as for example MSIE): 99% compatible with Word (some embedded pics do not look the way you left them when they used to be in a *.doc), graph-ing in Calc isn’t as easy as within Excel, quite longer loading times. I hope all these things will find their way toewards the final release. As for now, I found it better to have them both.
We are still playing catch-up to MS Office. I hope the next release after this does something radically new and focuses on usability…
Solvenia.. it may as well be held on Mars.
Actually, it is Slovenia.
I would not be surprised, if you are an US citizen.
Slovenia is in the EU, near Austria and Italy. It’s not so far.
I can also add that there are a lot of osnews readers from Slovenia. You should check google earth more often
Slovenia is a very nice and warm country. Historicaly being invaded by Italians, Austrians and bordering the balkan region has a very interesting culture and habits.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovenia
OpenOffice.org 2beta is awesome. I’ve been using it for some time and it works great. They should release it already.
Just don’t try to open any HTML docs…
OOo is a great attempt…but MS is famous and popular…despite all their bad programming and bugs and so on…because they just work better I think…at least in terms of Office suites hehe. I dont think OOo is a worthy competitor…its a worthy clone…that just happens to be free and frankly I cant wait to get my copy of the upcoming Office 12.
Office 12 will probably not include OpenDocument format while OOo already supports it. I think that support of standard format will make a big difference in enterprise environment.
I forgot to mention that about popularity, there are users that still use Office 97 and each version of Microsoft Office has a broken compatibility of format. For example, Microsoft Office 12 will not use MS Office 2003 xml as default.
Check out the bt tracker:
http://borft.student.utwente.nl:6969/
No, they mean a devastated landscape as in Mars.
OOoCon2006 will be next September in New Orleans.
Ok, so my comment about the next OOoCon being held in a devastated New Orleans (much more like Mars right now than Slovenia) it’s not good but that one saying Slovenia and mars are the same it’s funny, isn’t it?
I suppose those who rated my comment with a -2 felt that my comment was out of place and inapropiate. Same as that one about Slovenia.
Well done!
BTW: I am Spanish, not Slovenian.
I’m form Slovenia and am thinking of moving to Spain.
I am from Slovenia. ( http://www.slovenia-tourism.si ), from Maribor ( http://www.maribor-tourism.si ). And Slovenia is nice and small. In 3 hours you can see Alps and Mediteranian See.