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Re: Free office ! IBM Lotus Symphony

From: Martin Rowe

Symphony is built on the OpenOffice.org 1.x code base, whereas
OpenOffice.org is now at (as of this week) 2.3. I'm assuming with
IBM's announcement of 35 developers to work on OOo that there will be
a relatively quick catch up process. OOo 2.3 is quite an improvement
on the old 1.x versions, and it seems to cope much better with MS
Office files (though doing better still would be welcome).

Martin, I still don't fully understand the relationship between Eclipse,
Open Office and Symphony. I want to get some more information about this
because it seems to me that IBM would have done much better to release
Symphony on the newest (or at least a newer) OOo codebase.

Joe



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