FileMaker Pro 11 has arrived, and we had a chance to try out some of the new features.
The community that produces the free productivity software suite is scheduled to launch OpenOffice.org 2.4 on Thursday, with several stated improvements including a few to its Calc spreadsheet application. (The release notes can be found here.
On that same day, OOo will put a feature freeze and user interface freeze into effect on its development of OpenOffice.org 3.0 - - which is scheduled to launch in September.
OOo still has a sliver of the overall market, even as giants Microsoft and Google duke it out to expand their productivity software offerings in the online world in full Software as a Service mode. Within the last few days, Google has even instituted some UI improvements to Google Docs, making it look more Word-like than before. Whether OOo can break through the Microsoft-Google noise remains to be seen, and will be interesting to watch.