Enterprise Open Source News

The version 3.0 of Open office is out. Some important new fetaures

• Mac OS X Support
• ODF 1.2 support
• Microsoft Office 2007 Import Filters
• Solver
• Chart Enhancements
• Spreadsheet Collaboration Through Workbook Sharing
• 1024 Columns Per Calc Sheet (Instead of 256)
• Display of Multiple Writer Pages While Editing
• Enhanced XML support and updated XSLT based filters

If Open office 3.0 is still not at Office 2007 level (lake of Smart Shapes for example) or still copying Office 2007 mistakes (still no  TOC in Impress, as in Powerpoint), this release is a major one and is confirming that Microsoft has a real competitot when it comes to Office apps.