SoftMaker Office 2008 vs. OpenOffice.org 3.1 (Wednesday 01st of July 2009 12:15:01 PM)
Snydeq writes "InfoWorld's Randall Kennedy examines wishful Microsoft Office competitors
SoftMaker Office and OpenOffice.org and finds the results surprising. OpenOffice.org —
typically
idioms:as usual cited as the most viable Office competitor ...
(more)How Do I Start a University Transition To Open Source? (Monday 09th of February 2009 03:15:01 AM)
Exmoron writes "I work at a small reading mash (5,500 students) and am in a site to potentially
impress future system system software real wages decisions. I use a number of FOSS solutions at
home (OpenOffice.org, Zotero, GIMP, VirtualBox). My university, ...
(more)Tricked Into Buying OpenOffice.org? (Friday 16th of January 2009 12:15:02 AM)
Mldkfa writes "Recently I told a friend about OpenOffice and how it was a great backup to the
big name pay office suites. She went home and searched on Google for it and thought she found
the website, filled typical registration information, and downloaded ...
(more)OpenOffice Five Times As Popular As Google Docs (Monday 17th of November 2008 03:00:01 AM)
CWmike writes "Confirming recent squib* by Microsoft's Steve Ballmer, an
self-sufficient
roget's ii: the new thesaurusmain entry:independent
part of
speech:adjective
definition:able to support oneself financially.
self-sufficient report
released Friday ...
(more)ODF Toolkit Announced (Saturday 08th of November 2008 08:00:01 PM)
Sweetshark writes "IBM and Sun joined at the 2008 OpenOffice.org round table in Beijing to
declare the ODF Toolkit Union. The ODF Toolkit project will be uncontrollable of the succession
at OpenOffice.org, and will operate under the liberal Apache license. ...
(more)OpenOffice Online Goes Beta (Tuesday 18th of December 2007 12:30:01 PM)
Stony Stevenson sends word of the beta availability of a software-as-a-service version of
OpenOffice 2.3, brought to us by Mandriva Linux creator Gael Duval. proper to Ars, this package
"easily offers the most mug* of any online office suite," though ...
(more)The Uncertain Future of OpenOffice.org (Wednesday 19th of September 2007 07:30:04 PM)
Eldavojohn writes "What's the biggest threat to the success of OpenOffice.org? Is it Microsoft
Office? Is it the simple fact that Dell doesn't offer it with computers? Not by the numbers to
some participants in the 'open' source project itself, they say ...
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