Mozilla to deliver calendar functionality for OpenOffice.org
Michael Bemmer, Sun Microsystems' StarOffice/OpenOffice.org Director Software Engineering, announced (PDF) during the latest OpenOffice.org Conference that addressing OOo future OpenOffice.org (an open source office suite) versions will feature email and calendar functionality based on Mozilla Lightning, a project that aims to deliver Sunbird calendar functionality into Thunderbird as an extension.
Among expected functionality:
- Schedule appointments / meetings
- Address book, Invitations, Free / Busy information
- Timezone support
- Access rights including delegation
- Backup / Restore of calendar and config data
- Sun Java System Calendar Server
- At a later time: Microsoft Exchange and offline mode to sync with Notebook/PDA support.
According to Bemmer's presentation, this will address a main feature set requested by users through surveys, will solve Microsoft license issues and will allow a complete migration to an open solution.
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Mozilla to deliver Ligthning functionality to OpenOffice.org « Firefox Extension Guru’s Blog
[...] I am really excited to see Mozilla partnering with Sun Microsystems to add Mozilla’s Lighting functionality in the future to OpenOffice.org (OOo). For those not familiar with Mozilla Lighting, it is a Thunderbird extension which adds the currently missing calendar and scheduler features to Thunderbird. This is going to give OOo an edge over Microsoft as presently OOo does not have scheduling/calendar functionality. Lean more at mozilla links » Mozilla to deliver calendar functionality for OpenOffice.org [...]
Leon Kackman
Friends,
This looks like a great idea. I am currently using Thunderbird and Sunbird together (with Openoffice)and would use Lightning but cannot get the calendar to show when the software starts. Apparently it is supposed to be able to start in calendar view but that functionality is broken. I hope that feature is fixed if it is released with OO.
Thanks,
Leon
Dr.T
This is wonderful! This last link to the functionality of MS office will a quantum leap. Thanks a lot!
Venkata Rama Krishna Boddu
I’m using the Open Office from last six months and feeling the deficiency of outlook feature in it.
Thanks to Bemmer, Thanks for Calender feature integration
Now, I can use Open Office for my entire range of Office work
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