Open Office gets a boost from 35 IBM programmers

IBM has joined the Open Office project with 35 programmers dedicated to working with the Open Office code to add accessibility and feature enhancements.

IBM has already made use of the Open Office source code for its Workplace suite. Their packaging and distribution of future code could help Open Office and the OpenDocument Format (ODF) standard become more competitive with Microsoft Office products. For the full press release visit Openoffice.org.

Open Office.org is a free open source office suite that includes word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, illustration, and database software.

Last month Google began offering Sun’s Star Office 8 free as part of their free Google pack. Star Office is the premium version of Open Office and is being sold by several suppliers including Sun for $70.

Click the link below to download Star Office 8 free directly from Google or read our Star Office review.