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28.01.2010.
MultiRacio became a member of OASIS

MultiRacio joined OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards), a non-profit consortium that drives the development, convergence and adoption of open standards for the global information society. We are participating also in the work of the OpenDocument Technical Comittee.

27.01.2010.
EuroSymphony Spellchecker available for Lotus Symphony

EuroSymphony Spellchecker is a Lotus Symphony 1.3 extension developed by MultiRacio. It provides an alternative spell checker engine. It requires Lotus Symphony version 1.3, and works both on Windows (32-bit, 64-bit) and Linux (32-bit) operating systems. It supports seven languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Polish and Hungarian. For more information please visit our site or the IBM Lotus Symphony plug-ins site.

14.12.2009.
EuroOffice MapChart Pro in Austrian magazine

Issue 115 of GW Unterricht, an Austrian education journal published an article of Hartwig Hitz és Alfons Koller: iGuess - Integrating GIS Use in Education in Several Subjects; Darstellungsformen der Erde; EuroOffice Map Chart Professional. The article presents our map chart tool in detail (pages 52-67), emphasizing its usefulness in education.

14.12.2009.
Download center for students and staff of universities ELTE and SZTE

MultiRáció started a six month special period in cooperation with Eötvös University and Szeged University according to the April 28, 2009 statement of the Hungarian Rectors' Conference. During this period, students and staff of the two universities can freely download and install the software made available by MultiRacio including the commercial versions of the EuroOffice extensions. The special period began at December 1, 2009 and ends at May 31, 2010.

30.09.2009.
EuroOffice 2009 in Orvieto: ODF Plugfest, OOoCon2009

MultiRáció presents the new version of EuroOffice, built on OpeOffice.org 3.1.1, for an ODF compatibility test on the ODF Plugfest in Orvieto, Italy. The annual OpenOffice.org Conference is held at the same time in Orvieto, where we hold presentations about the joint research and development activities of MultiRacio and its partner University of Szeged. Our company and the University of Szeged is also sponsoring the annual conference of the OpenOffice.org community. During the conference we present our new product, EuroOffice 2009 Professional.

02.09.2009.
Public procurement procedure won

The consortium created by FreeSoft Company, Kventa Ltd. and MultiRacio Ltd. won the public procurement procedure for software applications based on open source standards.

The government opened the software market at the beginning of april, 2009. This resulted in the decision that the government will purchase open standard applications in the next 4 years, for 4 billion Ft in the government institutions and for 2 billion Ft in the educational institutions through this public procurement procedure (id. number TED 2009/S 73-106067). During this procedure the following office applications have been chosen:

The next EuroOffice 2009 Pro version will be suggested as a new office application by MultiRacio.
The winners of the suppliers in this public procurement procedure: The consortium created by FreeSoft Company, Kventa Ltd. and MultiRacio Ltd. is in the first place in the civil service and in the education, that is the institutions can order products and services directly from them. The contracts were signed on 25. august and are available on this government website from 28. august.

24.07.2009.
InfoPólus 2009 wins support of National Development Agency

The project proposal of InfoPólus 2009 for the GOP-1.1.2-08 programme (support of innovation clusters) of the National Development Agency (NFÜ) was accepted on July 1, 2009.

InfoPólus 2009 Ltd. was founded in March 2009 by members of the cluster "Dél-Alföldi Szoftveripari Innovációs Pólus", inluding MultiRáció. The project with the title "Developing a software quality assurance platform and business applications based on the competences of SIKK (Software Industry Research Center) and the development and marketing experience of the business partners", wins 830 million HUF (3.1 million EUR) support - reports the website of MAG Zrt.. MultiRacio takes part in the research of source code based quality assurance methods and applies these methods on its EuroOffice extensions and other add-on products.

23.06.2009.
EuroOffice 2008 presented on ODF Plugtest, Netherlands

As we reported earlier (03.06.2009.), the Dutch government has organized a conference on 15-16 June about the interoperability of ODF based applications. MultiRacio, the developer of the ODF based office program, EuroOffice 2008, was also invited to the workshop. Zsolt Bagoly and Daniel Darabos, leading developers of MultioRacio, presented EuroOffice 2008. This event was part of a process that resulted in the decision that Dutch government organizations may purchase only open, ODF based office applications since 24 November, 2008. (more: www.odfworkshop.nl). More information about the conference participants, the applications involved in the interoperability test and the results of the investigations can be found on the conference webpages. There is also a photo album on the conference.

16.06.2009.
Adaptive software R&D project of MultiRacio wins support of National Development Agency

The project proposal of MultiRacio for the KMOP-1.1.1-2008/1 programme of the National Development Agency (NFÜ) was accepted on May 20, 2009. The aim of the project is to develop a new, intelligent software engineering environment. The development environment will support OpenOffice extension module development and testing, and the porting of existing applications to the new extension model of OpenOffice. The adaptive extensions may decrease the distance between computer and user, because the system monitors user interaction, analyses and applies the results automatically. The larger user database will be helpful for the software developers to decide on user interface development projects. The project results will be applied also in the development of our EuroOffice product family.

06.06.2009.
EuroOffice extensions in German and Dutch cumputer magazines

As we reported earlier ( The latest article of LinuxIdentity, New articles about OpenOffice.org 2.4 and EuroOffice 2008 Extensions), special versions of EuroOffice extensions were published on the DVD-s of the French and US editions of the LinuxIdentity magazine. In March 2009 Computer Technik (c't) published review articles and special versions of EuroOffice extensions on DVD and its website. Since May 12, one of Europe's most important computer magazines, Computer Bild included EuroOffice Dictionary among its recommended downloads. On June 6, in the Dutch edition of c't, Ralf Nebelo and Marcel van der Meer published an article about useful extensions of OpenOffice.org Calc, presenting in detail our EuroOffice Map Chart extension (Kantooruitbreiding, OpenOffice.org: Calc-extensies pp. 100-102). We express them here our acknowledgment for helping us to localize for Dutch the EuroOffice Map Chart extension.

03.06.2009.
ODF Plugtest (ODF Interoperability Workshop) 15-16 June

The Dutch government is organizing a conference on 15-16 June about the interoperability of ODF based applications. MultiRacio, the developer of the ODF based office program, EuroOffice, is also invited to the workshop. (www.odfworkshop.nl/plugfest-I-invitees). Our company will be represented by Zsolt Bagoly and Daniel Darabos leading developers. This event is part of a process that resulted in the decision that Dutch government organizations may purchase only open, ODF based office applications since 24 November, 2008. (more: www.odfworkshop.nl).

21.05.2009.
Hungarian Rectors' Conference supports ODF based EuroOffice and its extensions

MultiRacio Ltd. presented its ODF based product, EuroOffice, and its innovative extensions on the February 24, 2009 General Meeting of Hungarian Rectors' Conference (HRC). We also made a proposal for taking part in the "Clean Software Program" with an appropriate licence constuction. The Presidency of HRC formulated a supporting statement on its April 28 meeting. Read more on the website of HRC (www.mrk.hu).

20.05.2009.
ELTE-Soft gets National Development Agency support

ELTE-Soft's project proposal was accepted for funding by the National Development Agency on April 30, 2009, in the framework of the Regional Development Operative Programme.

ELTE-Soft Ltd. was created by ELTE University, MultiRacio, AITA, Netvisor and CityLog in November, 2008. The project proposed for NDA funding is a joint research and development activity of the member companies and the university. Multiracio's role is to take part in the analysis of economic time series data and in the work of the Adaptive Software Lab. The results of the research and development project will be incorporated in the EuroOffice product family and the statistical software products of the company.

19.04.2009.
New generation of our Map Chart extension program

MultiRacio Ltd. and the Regional Knowledge Centre (RET) of Eötvös University, Budapest, started a joint project on the development of a new generation of our Map Chart extension program. The project includes integration of Map Chart with MS Excel and Google Map, as well as implementing the program as a web service. The R&D project is also supported by the National Office for Research and Technology (NKTH).

04.03.2009.
OpenOffice.org 2010 - Conference in Budapest

The 2010 annual OpenOffice.org conference will be held in Budapest, Hungary on the campus of ELTE University. More details here and here . OpenOffice decided on next two years' conference locations based on the votes of community members. The first place was won by Orvieto, Budapest came second. So the 2009 Conference will be in Orvieto, the 2010 conference in Budapest. MultiRacio had a leading role in preparing the tender documents. (see here). Our company was a premium supporter of OOoCon Barcelona, and took part with presentations also on OOo Beijing.

12.02.2009.
2008 ODF Alliance Report

The Open Document Format (ODF) Alliance published its 2008 Annual Report. This report lists all ODF based office applications, including MultiRacio's EuroOffice. More details in the report.

03.02.2009.
ELTE Innovation Day 2009

MultiRacio presented the results of a joint research and development project with ELTE University on the "Innovation Day 2009" conference, organized by the University. The three year project ( eScience RET) included the development of new statistical procedures that can be used in the estimation of labor force data on the small area level. The new methods were implemented in a new estimation software system (SAUS2). The presentation in pdf format.

10.12.2008.
MultiRáció lead consortium wins support of National Technology Programme

A MultiRacio lead consortium (including IBM partner Polygon Ltd., Sun Microsystems Hungary, Eötwös University, Szeged University and Budapest University of Techology and Economics) applied for support of the National Technology Programme of the National Office of Reserach and Technology for a project "Software quality assurance service-package for open document format applications" on Sep 15, 2008. The programme supports large scale strategic research and development projects with international applications. Our proposal was accepted and won a support of 565 million HUF. The project is planned for 3 years starting on Jan 1, 2009. (Read more in these odt and pdf files.)

04.10.2008.
EuroOffice presentation on OpenOffice.org conference

Daniel Darabos, leading developer of MultiRacio Ltd. will hold a presentation and developer workshop about developing Python based extensions on November 5, in the OpenOffice.org conference in Beijing. He will also present EuroOffice Extension Creator, MultiRacio's open source extension developer toolkit.

13.08.2008.
OOoCon2008 Beijing

Dániel Darabos, leading developer of MultiRacio Ltd. will take part on this year's OpenOffice.org conference in Beijing, China (OOoCon2008), holding a presentation with the title "Python Extension Development". The presentation will show details on how our Add-on programs have beed developed as Python extensions to OpenOffice.org.

28.06.2008.
Global Add-on application extensions

Some of the most important software development companies, such as IBM and SUN Microsystems, developed special technologies to involve the independent software developers to satisfy all needs of the users. IBM was the first leader with starting service-oriented architecture (SOA), but SUN followed them rapidly with SOA-based UNO models of OpenOffice.org. The OASIS organization approved Open Document Format (ODF) as the ISO standard file format for office applications in 2006, so these applications have a 100% compatibility. The independent software developers can join these applications with several Add-on components or extensions.
In 2007, MultiRacio Ltd. joined and developed a new version of the OpenOffice.org-based EuroOffice package supporting 7 languages (English, German, French, Spain, Italian, Polish and Hungarian). It contains add-on components instead of the integrated functions, so they are available as any extensions. The ODF-based EuroOffice 2008 Pro is already released in this structure. So we have developed 4 add-on extensions that can be applied globally and used everywhere in the world with OpenOffice.org reaching 2 million downloads/week last month.
Read more...

11.12.2007.
Adaptive Software: EuroOffice 2008, Press Conference in Info Park, Budapest

On December 11, MultiRacio Ltd. and the Informatics Research and Education Center of Eötvös University, Budapest held a joint press conference about the EuroOffice 2008 office software and how the results of the research and development activities of the Adaptive Software Laboratory of the university were integrated in the product.
The R&D project at the Adaptive Software Laboratory was funded by MutiRacio with support of the 1st National Development Plan of the Hungarian government. The results of the research were built into the software version just about to be released (EuroOffice 2008).
The press conference was held by Imre Kátai, director of the Informatics Research and Education Center, Miklós Banai, leader of MultiRacio, Zsolt Bagoly, leader of the Adaptive Software Laboratory, and Dániel Darabos, software developer at MultiRacio.
The press conference was also attended by Péter Paál, CEO of IBM Hungary, András Pettkó, Member of Parliament, from the Informatics Subcomittee, and László Kozma, Head of the Infromatics Department of Eötvös University. (more inormation in the press release, currently only in Hungarian, English translation coming soon).

15.07.2007.
Conference in Barcelona
MultiRacio Ltd and the Open Source Laboratory of the Szeged University is a premium sponsor of the 2007 OpenOffice.org Conference taking place in Barcelona, from September 19 to 21. MultiRacio presents EuroOffice 2007 in the form of an exhibition and a presentation. The new features of EuroOffice 2007 (map diagram, Optimizer, Morphologic language tools, Dictionaries, Adaptive GUI, etc.) are developed in the form of OpenOffice.org extensions. This makes the new features available also to OpenOffice.org or StarOffice users all over the world. We also present OpenOffice++, a joint project of Szeged University and MultiRacio. The goal of OpenOffice++ was the development of a professional source code quality assurance and monitoring system tailored for OpenOffice.org.
The presentation about EuroOffice 2007 extensions ( "Benefits of Extensions") will be held by Daniel Darabos on September 20 in the Development section. The presentation also includes the results of a research project in Adaptive Software Laboratory, ELTE IKKK, supported by MultiRacio. The presantation about OpenOffice++ project results ( "OpenOffice++: Improving the Quality of Open Source Software") will be held by Rudolf Ferenc (Department of Software Engineering, Szeged University) also in the Development section.