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Open Office Plans To Party Like It's Version 3.0 396

Posted by timothy on Saturday October 11, 2008 @08:11PM from the undervalued dept.

penguin_dance writes "The Register reports that 'OpenOffice.org is throwing a launch party in Paris on 13 October' to celebrate eight years, and hopefully announce the release of version 3.0. Some notes: [OpenOffice.org 3.0] will support the OpenDocument Format 1.2 standard, and be able to open files created by MS Office 2007 and Office 2008 for Mac OS X." As maj_id10t notes, though the OO.o site does not yet carry an announcement, "Lifehacker has posted an entry stating the final release of OpenOffice 3.0 is available for download via their distribution mirrors."

Comment Re:Not completely certain. (Score 1) 415

by Tintagel on Friday May 26, 2006 @06:43AM (#15408436) Attached to: Is Silicon Valley Reproducible?

Uhh, you know, ARM is a Cambridge company, as is WorldPay (now owned by RBS).

It's mandatory at this point to mention that the great pioneers were from Oxbridge: in hardware, Maurice Wilkes at Cambridge, and in software, Christopher Strachey and Tony Hoare at Oxford.

But none of it produced a damn thing for the British economy. You can't move in Cambridge for corporate research labs and companies in the Science Park doing tech for financial services and mobilecomms. All of that is great for PhD grads but doesn't lift productivity in the general economy in the way that US tech firms have enabled.

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