assigned company-paid engineers to the project.
Work on a native Mac edition of kicked into gear over a year ago, when Sun Microsystems Inc. The update will be available to all users free of charge on Jan. IWork retails for $79 for a single-user license, $99 for a five-license family pack.Īnother open-source competitor, NeoOffice, is currently at Version 2.2.5, but Version 3.0 debuts in mid-November to users who have donated $25 or more to the project since late August. also sells a suite, dubbed iWork '08, that offers a word processor, spreadsheet and presentation maker. The current Mac version, Office 2008 for Mac, starts at $149. is one of the few rivals of Microsoft Corp.'s market-leading Microsoft Office suite.
Other enhancements and additions include support for the new file formats that debuted in Microsoft Office 2007 and Microsoft Office for Mac 2008. 3.0 includes a slew of new features and improvements to the suite's word processing, spreadsheet, presentation and database applications. The new 3.0 runs only on Intel-based Macs systems powered by the older PowerPC processors can download and run an older 2.x edition that requires X11.
