Two days ago I posted about new office applications coming to the BeOS/Haiku platform. I’ll admit that the title of my post was a little bit to enthusiastic. As Oliver (the developer of OOffice) notes on his blog he is mostly working on a “Office Development Framework” and he can hardly find the time to get some code written. Also he notes that he is not going to be able to finish this alone but wants to show what is possible in a short amount of time. For Olivier his Mentor task in the Haiku GSoC is obviously much more important.

Unfortunately OSNews took my post a bit to literal and the whole story blew up making it seem like a new office suite for the Be platform was about to be released. I’d like to take the opportunity to say sorry to Olivier who got overwhelmed by questions and comments about his hobby project. I really do like the initiative he started and hope that it will attract some more developers. A decent, actively maintained, application for text and spreadsheet documents is lacking from BeOS at the moment.

Olivier writes about the discussion that OSNews and I caused on his blog, read his post here.

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