[odf-discuss] Microsoft and Novell cooperate on document formats

[Nicu Buculei]

marbux wrote:
> 
> But one of the flies in the ointment is the amount of work on OOo it 
> would take to allow it to fully support MOOX. Novell turned its back on 
> the office suite market years ago when it sold WordPerfect, QuattroPro, 
> and Presentations to Corel. The company's only relevant expertise is in 
> groupware, courtesy of the few WordPerfect developers it kept to keep 
> going what was renamed as Groupwise. It would be hard for Novell to come 
> up with enough developers with the right skills to extend OOo so far as 
> it would need to go to fully support MOOX, even assuming it had the 
> capital to do so.

Do not be so dismissive about Novell's ability to undertake major work 
on OOo, counting the developers, thy are the second corporate entity 
involved in development: 
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/DomainDeveloper
Their expertise dates back from the Ximian days and talking about 
relevant expertise, one of their recent accomplishments is the filter 
for Lotus 1-2-3.

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