News
2011-12-20: Experimental Calligra Installer for Windows Available
KO GmbH has made the first experimental (alpha) version of its Windows installer package for the Calligra Suite available. You can find the packages on our Download page. Please be aware that this is a very early version and that some things do not work as expected. This work has been sponsored by the NLnet Foundation.
2011-11-15: KO and SKF Will Integrate Calligra Words into SKF Design Tool Orpheus
KO GmbH and world leading ball bearing manufacturer SKF have signed a contract to integrate Calligra Words into SKF's design tool Orpheus. Orpheus helps SKF engineers design ball and roll bearings in cooperation with customers and partners. Calligra Words will be used as an embedded report generation tool that will make it possible to automatically generate and regenerate tables, figures and images.
About SKF: SKF Group is the leading global supplier of products, solutions and services within rolling bearings, seals, mechatronics, services and lubrication systems.
2011-11-03: New WebODF White Paper Published
KO GmbH has published a white paper on the technology behind WebODF. WebODF is a collection of JavaScript routines that lets you show office documents in the Open Document Format in a web browser. It can also be used to add Open Document viewing to an application using an embeddable browser component such as WebKit.
2011-10-25: Calligra is Released as Office Application in the Nokia N9 Smartphone
Mobile giant Nokia has just released the Linux based N9 model. Among the applications that are bundled with the smartphone the user will find the office application Harmattan Office.
Harmattan Office is a document viewer based on the Calligra Office Engine which is part of the open-source Calligra Suite and developed in cooperation with KO GmbH. This application provides an advanced viewer for documents in the OpenDocument Format, binary Microsoft Office documents, and Microsoft OOXML documents, as well as PDF. Read more at the home page of the Calligra Suite.
2010-12-06: KOffice becomes Calligra
Recognizing that the KOffice core engine is these used in many places, and for many kinds of applications, the KOffice community have decided to use the migration from subversion to git to also rename the suite to Calligra.
2010-12-01: WebODF Screencast Demo Available
There is now a screencast video available showing WebODF in action and explaining some technical background.
2009-11-24: KOffice 2.1.0 Released
KOffice version 2.1 was announced today, 6 months after the first release of the 2.x series. This version brings many bugfixes and improved stability to all components. As examples of new features, we see text tables for KWord and support for SVG filter effects in Karbon. Krita and Karbon are now considered mature enough for real work. See the official announcement for more details.
2009-10-11: Office Viewer on the Nokia N900 uses KOffice as Engine
At the Maemo Summit 2009 in Amsterdam, it was announced that the Office Viewer application for the Nokia N900 will be based on KOffice. At the conference, Suresh Chande of Nokia gave a presentation on the office viewer applications, and used the viewer on the device itself to give the presentation.
2009-05-30: KO Gmbh Invited by Dutch Government to ODF Plugfest
KO Gmbh, the leading support company for KOffice was today invited to take part in a major interoperability event for OpenDocument based office applications: the ODF Plugfest. The invitation was extended by Frank Heemskerk, Netherlands Minister for Foreign Trade. The event will take place in the Hague at June 15th and 16th.
2009-05-28: KOffice 2.0.0 Released
After more than 3 years of development, KOffice 2.0.0 was finally released today. This release is a so called "platform release", which is aimed at developers rather than end users. Still, it is a very important milestone in the life of KOffice, and KO congratulates the KOffice team for the achievement. See the official announcement for more details.
2008-01-09: KO GmbH Founded
KO GmbH with
main offices in Magdeburg, Germany, today starts its activity in
Germany, Sweden, and the Netherlands. KO GmbH will offer
professional services around the open source
OpenDocument-based KOffice office
suite. KO GmbH will allow KOffice to be used in
companies and organizations that demand high quality support and
training for OpenDocument
deployment.
See the full press release
2007-12-10: KO Founder Speaks at KDE Release Event
Inge Wallin, co-founder of KO GmbH was today announced as a speaker at the KDE release event in Mountain View, California on january 18th 2008. Inge will speak about the future of KOffice.
