We are proud to announce the release of the most important version of eyeOS ever: the new eyeOS 1.5 “Gala”.

The new eyeOS version is the first to include full support for both the Microsoft Office and OpenOffice formats, for Documents, Spreadsheets and Presentations.
 

eyeOS 1.5 Gala also introduces new applications, such as eyeMessages (the new Internal Messaging system) and the new eyeContacts and eyeCalendar, which have been rewritten to provide a much better functionality and new features.

There are also new services and libraries available for developers, such as the new Right Click service, which has been implemented to almost all base applications and provides a much better system usage, making it more intuitive for new users.

The new version can be downloaded here and tested in the demo server.

We think that with this version, eyeOS is now Business and Production ready, providing a really stable system to develop and port specific applications for every business. All problems regarding special characters on the whole system have been resolved, providing a much more stable user experience with the desktop and the base applications.

Since some months ago, several people inside and outside the eyeOS community has told us that had plans to use eyeOS profesionnaly. But even with companies being every day more interested about Open Source Software Solutions, they still would need 3 guarantees before moving to an OSS solution :

• Being secure that the software will persist in the future
• Predictability
• Support

This is why we have decided to launch Professional Services around eyeOS, to give a strong base for spreading the eyeOS project in the business area.

We believe that being Open Source, eyeOS has great capabilities of being implemented successfully on Schools and Companies, providing Support, Personalization, Specific Development and Training to all those companies, schools and governments who are interested in.

We also announce today the availability of the new websites of :

• The new eyeOS Open Source Network: eyeOS.org which is and will be the base of the Open Source project and community
• The brand new eyeOS.com website, which offers eyeOS Based Professional Services.

The plans around Professional Services do include to contract and work collaboratively with people in the eyeOS Development Community with the new Professional Projects.

We want to thank specially in this release the whole community which has been testing the latest RC versions and making eyeOS better and better, to the people at OOOForum, who has helped a lot in the new eyeOffice connectors, and to Ricardo Galli, who has helped a lot on the best configurations for the new servers.

About the eyeOS Public Server, we will have it online back in the next hours. The new server will provide more space to each individual user and a great increase of velocity on the whole Server. It will be online tomorrow, with the new eyeOS 1.5 Gala version!

The official annouce of the new eyeOS Hosting Parters and an official press release about the new eyeOS 1.5 Gala will be available soon.