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Oracle is out this week with the Open Office 3.3 and Oracle Cloud Office 1.0 releases, introducing new features and technologies to users.

The OpenOffice.org open source office suite is a key piece of technology that Oracle acquired as part of its purchase of Sun Microsystems. Open Office is also an area of controversy for Oracle with a fork called LibreOffice already in progress.

Michael Bemmer, vice president of Oracle Office told InternetNews.com that Oracle Open Office 3.3 introduces a number of improvements for end users. Bemmer noted that that the 3.3 release includes enhanced usability for presentation editing and improved slide handling. Additionally the 3.3 release has integration with Oracle Business Intelligence, Oracle E-Business Suite and Oracle Universal Content Management solutions as well as overall improvements in performance, stability and compatibility.

Under Oracle, the former Sun Star Office team, which helped to lead OpenOffice.org development, now operates as the Oracle Office Global Business Unit.

"Oracle Office is the product family name for our products that include Oracle Cloud Office and Oracle Open Office," Bemmer said.

While Oracle now leads Open Office development, the codebase includes contributions from other vendors, including Novell. Michael Meeks, distinguished engineer at Novell, told InternetNews.com that his company contributed code for the Calc spreadsheet that enables it to handle up to 1 million rows. Novell also contributed an automatic decimal digits feature in addition to improved CSV support.

ITmanagement has the article HERE!