topic Re: Open Office ? in Operating System - OpenVMS

Open Office ?

nipun_2 — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 16:24:42 GMT

Hi,
Do we have openoffice or similar package freely available for OpenVMS. If yes can anyone please let me konw.

I have Alpha openvms 7.3-2

Regards,
Nipun

Re: Open Office ?

Volker Halle — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 01:18:38 GMT

Nipun,

a port of OpenOffice to OpenVMS is under way, see:

http://www.oooovms.dyndns.org/

Volker.

Re: Open Office ?

nipun_2 — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 20:25:46 GMT

Thanks a lot Volker.
Nipun

Re: Open Office ?

Peter Zeiszler — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 17:44:04 GMT

So I wonder if we have to consider open office viruses now on the VMS system. I would have to assume there would be macro code enabled on the OpenOffice suite.

Anyone know anything about this possibility? Or possibly allowing a system administrator to disable the macro coding by default?

Re: Open Office ?

Peter Zeiszler — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 17:46:06 GMT

Sorry - couldn't edit previous message. I didn't want to come off as bad mouthing open office. I use that on my home system. Its a little memory hungry and slower to load than office but its got the majority of the features I have learned to use from MS Office.