Lending significant credence to this rumor is the fact that IGG Software has just renamed their time management/invoicing app, from “iWork” to “iBiz”, offering no explanation other than a small print statement that iBiz is “Formerly IGG Softwares ‘iWork’”.
Interesting developments in Apple world (well not as interesting as those juicy Cinema Display price drops). I know a couple of people who are only comfortable switching to a Mac because they can get Office on it. Does this hurt or help Apple? Maybe it does neither and if that’s the case then they most definitely should go for it.
If OpenOffice does a good job with Office documents then I don’t see why anything Apple created could do any worse. Interesting to see how this one develops.
I wouldn’t expect this will void MS office’s utility, at least not immediately, just replace Appleworks with something a bit more modern. But if it is well enough received, perhaps it may end up following itunes to windows… I’d love to use Keynote, for example, without having to take my ibook to meetings
If it doesn’t help them, they should go for it? Uhhh…?
I have to say I downloaded NeoOffice/J last week, and it is progressing quite well. It loads OpenOffice.org via java rather than x11 on the Mac.
It seemed to be quite usable as an free Office Package.
Of course I’d still like to have an Apple package, but given the last status of Apple Works it would take a lot of work to get a good project. Unless they have secretly be working on the OpenOffice.org port or something.