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Originally Posted by ArnimS View Post
http://www.dataviz.com/products/docu...ogo/index.html

Contact dataviz and ask about plans to port to maemo.

For the maemo community here, would it be possible to set the mail app to open .doc in abiword and .xls in gnumeric?
You know, I'm glad you brought this up, because there is something Dataviz can do that could help both them and the Maemo community--port the Palm Foleo version of Docs to Go to Maemo. Here Dataviz, at the behest of Palm, ported (or more likely created from scratch) an entire office suite for a Linux-based device, and Palm went and cancelled it. I doubt it would take a lot of effort to port it to Maemo, though it's hard to say for sure since much of the Foleo APIs are still shrouded in secrecy. They also most likely would have to charge for it, but I'd actually be willing to buy a copy to thank them for the support if the fee wasn't too excessive. Hey, if ACCESS could bother porting their Garnet VM to Maemo, who's to say Dataviz wouldn't at least look at porting their office suite? Especially since Maemo will be sharing the Hildon APIs with Intel's MID/Ubuntu Mobile, the market for such a suite could be larger very soon.