Sun makes rigid pantry for Mac OS X
Apple and Sun work together at a version of the office suite rigid pantry for Mac OS X. With that gets the software package Pantry v. X of Microsoft for this steering system competition. Yet this year the first version in the stores must lie.
End this year hope to have Sun and Apple a version of the open-source variant open pantry off for the steering system Mac OS X. The office suite encompass among many a word processor, spreadsheetprogramma and a presentatieapplication. The version of open pantry is based on Java. A commercile version of rigid pantry follows then in 2003. Present its there versions of rigid pantry available for Linux, Solaris and Windows, but Mac OS X stood not yet on the calendar.
“I think that open pantry good will turn on OS X against the end of this calendar year”, says manager Tony Siress of desktopmarketing-solutions by Sun. The open-source version stood already on the planning. Last week a version was released for developers. With that takes the competition for kantoorapplications on the platform again to. Corel stopped single years ago with the support of WordPerfect for Mac OS. Only also the sale of Pantry v. X of Microsoft fell against. Instead of the hoped 750,000 specimens sold the software business yet only 300,000 copies.
Where the office suite of Microsoft between the 300 and 500 dollars expense, considers Sun its software package free of charge away to give. The cooperation with Sun can set the really all breakable relation between Microsoft and Apple further on the game. According to Microsoft for OS X partly the reasons is the marketing of Apple for the disappointing sale of Mac Pantry. Yet the developing of rigid pantry will not paired go for OS X without the necessary problems.
The two most important problems its the Aqua interface of Mac OS X and the Quartz 2D renderingengine. Sun uses until now closed the same interface for rigid pantry on all different platforms, but for Mac OS X must these possibly complete again made become. Supports of Quartz is a separate problem see works open pantry with other graphics, namely X11. That are supported only by OS X with help of special software. Round that problem more fast on to discharge, works developers of Sun and Apple together.