[ale] Fwd: [tdf-announce] The Document Foundation launches LibreOffice 3.3

[Greg Freemyer]

Jim,

If I want to send a client 200,000 rows of info and I don't know what
software they have, what database format would you recommend?

fyi: I really do send large files like that from time to time.
Currently I send it as a Excel 2007 file (.xlsx) most of the time.
Most of my clients can work with that.

Greg

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 1:35 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> 1 million rows. That's a database not a spreadsheet!
>
> My M$ colleague and I were laughing about how people abuse
> spreadsheets as databases and page layout tools .
>
> congrats to LibreOffice on the outstanding effort.
>
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Stephen R. Blevins
> <stephen.r.blevins at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Stephen R. Blevins
>> stephen.r.blevins at gmail.com
>>
>>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: [tdf-announce] The Document Foundation launches LibreOffice 3.3
>> Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 12:06:36 +0100
>> From: Florian Effenberger <floeff at documentfoundation.org>
>> Reply-To: noreply at documentfoundation.org
>> Organization: The Document Foundation
>> To: announce at documentfoundation.org, discuss at documentfoundation.org,
>> marketing at libreoffice.org, marketing at us.libreoffice.org
>>
>> The Document Foundation launches LibreOffice 3.3
>>
>> The first stable release of the free office suite is available for download
>>
>> The Internet, January 25, 2011 - The Document Foundation launches
>> LibreOffice 3.3, the first stable release of the free office suite
>> developed by the community. In less than four months, the number of
>> developers hacking LibreOffice has grown from less than twenty in late
>> September 2010, to well over one hundred today. This has allowed us to
>> release ahead of the aggressive schedule set by the project.
>>
>> Not only does it ship a number of new and original features, LibreOffice
>> 3.3 is also a significant achievement for a number of reasons:
>>
>> - the developer community has been able to build their own and
>> independent process, and get up and running in a very short time (with
>> respect to the size of the code base and the project's strong ambitions);
>>
>> - thanks to the high number of new contributors having been attracted
>> into the project, the source code is quickly undergoing a major clean-up
>> to provide a better foundation for future development of LibreOffice;
>>
>> - the Windows installer, which is going to impact the largest and most
>> diverse user base, has been integrated into a single build containing
>> all language versions, thus reducing the size for download sites from 75
>> to 11GB, making it easier for us to deploy new versions more rapidly and
>> lowering the carbon footprint of the entire infrastructure.
>>
>> Caolán McNamara from RedHat, one of the developer community leaders,
>> comments, "We are excited: this is our very first stable release, and
>> therefore we are eager to get user feedback, which will be integrated as
>> soon as possible into the code, with the first enhancements being
>> released in February. Starting from March, we will be moving to a real
>> time-based, predictable, transparent and public release schedule, in
>> accordance with Engineering Steering Committee's goals and users'
>> requests". The LibreOffice development roadmap is available at
>> http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleasePlan
>>
>> LibreOffice 3.3 brings several unique new features. The 10 most-popular
>> among community members are, in no particular order: the ability to
>> import and work with SVG files; an easy way to format title pages and
>> their numbering in Writer; a more-helpful Navigator Tool for Writer;
>> improved ergonomics in Calc for sheet and cell management; and Microsoft
>> Works and Lotus Word Pro document import filters. In addition, many
>> great extensions are now bundled, providing PDF import, a slide-show
>> presenter console, a much improved report builder, and more besides. A
>> more-complete and detailed list of all the new features offered by
>> LibreOffice 3.3 is viewable on the following web page:
>> http://www.libreoffice.org/download/new-features-and-fixes/
>>
>> LibreOffice 3.3 also provides all the new features of OpenOffice.org
>> 3.3, such as new custom properties handling; embedding of standard PDF
>> fonts in PDF documents; new Liberation Narrow font; increased document
>> protection in Writer and Calc; auto decimal digits for "General" format
>> in Calc; 1 million rows in a spreadsheet; new options for CSV import in
>> Calc; insert drawing objects in Charts; hierarchical axis labels for
>> Charts; improved slide layout handling in Impress; a new easier-to-use
>> print interface; more options for changing case; and colored sheet tabs
>> in Calc. Several of these new features were contributed by members of
>> the LibreOffice team prior to the formation of The Document Foundation.
>>
>> LibreOffice hackers will be meeting at FOSDEM in Brussels on February 5
>> and 6, and will be presenting their work during a one-day workshop on
>> February 6, with speeches and hacking sessions coordinated by several
>> members of the project.
>>
>> The home of The Document Foundation is at http://www.documentfoundation.org
>>
>> The home of LibreOffice is at http://www.libreoffice.org where the
>> download page has been redesigned by the community to be more user-friendly.
>>
>>
>> *** About The Document Foundation
>>
>> The Document Foundation has the mission of facilitating the evolution of
>> the OOo Community into a new, open, independent, and meritocratic
>> organization within the next few months. An independent Foundation is a
>> better reflection of the values of our contributors, users and
>> supporters, and will enable a more effective, efficient and transparent
>> community. TDF will protect past investments by building on the
>> achievements of the first decade, will encourage wide participation
>> within the community, and will co-ordinate activity across the community.
>>
>>
>> *** Media Contacts for TDF
>>
>> Florian Effenberger (Germany)

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> James P. Kinney III