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What about Excel?
Authored by: maddys_daddy on Jan 13, '05 12:32:18AM

Or how about just OpenOffice, since it's already been ported to OS X?



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What about Excel?
Authored by: jmschaeffer on Jan 13, '05 01:26:14PM

Yes it has been ported to OS X, but not to the extent of NeoOffice. OpenOffice still requires X11 and does not run as a native app.

Here's text direct from the OpenOffice site regarding mac development:

For the last year and a half all engineering work focusing on a native Mac OS X OpenOffice.org version has been concentrated in the NeoOffice/J project, using a combination of Java and Carbon technologies to replace X11.
Due to various licensing, political, and fundamental engineering difficulties it is likely, for the near future, that native Aqua porting work will be based off of the NeoOffice.org project and not under the direct aegis of OpenOffice.org.



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