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- Is There Life After Office?
- Attempts by several state governments to dump Microsoft Office have died quiet deaths because of internecine squabbles within the open source community, a testament to vendor greed and a depressing reminder that the public interest often takes a back seat to moneyed interests. In 2005, the Commonwealth...
- Blog posts 2009-06-09
- Microsoft Patent Lawsuit Could Spell Trouble for Open-Source Format
- Microsoft Word was ruled in violation of an XML-related patent by a Texas judge, who ordered Microsoft to stop selling its productivity suite and pay a small Canadian company, i4i, nearly $300 million. However, the lawsuit could also present trouble down the road for XML-based OpenDocument Format, an open-source alternative...
- News items 2009-08-13
- NeoOffice 3.0.1 delivers Snow Leopard compatibility
- Changes in Snow Leopard broke all previous versions of NeoOffice, the Mac-friendly version of the OpenOffice.org open source office suite. Version 3.0.1 provides compatibility with Mac OS X 10.6, along with a couple of new features. Please enable JavaScript in your browser to post your comment!
- News items 2009-10-27
- OpenOffice Mouse Offers 18 Programmable Buttons
- A mouse from OpenOffice.org and WarMouse, retailing for $75, offers 18 programmable buttons and default profiles for the five core OpenOffice.org applications. A computer mouse designed by WarMouse, in collaboration with OpenOffice.org, will feature 18 programmable buttons and is designed for a variety of software applications, including Adobe Photoshop, Autodesk...
- News items 2009-11-09
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- Is OpenOffice.org a 'dying horse'?
- By Eileen Yu, ZDNet AsiaPosted on ZDNet News: Jan 12, 2009 7:56:32 AM Coining it a "dying horse" and "profoundly sick project", Meeks called for Sun to distant itself from OpenOffice and reduce its ownership of the codebase. While contacted, Sun was unable to respond by press time. In an...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Pentaho Adds Reporting Solution to OpenOffice.org
- Pentaho Corp ., creator of the world's most popular open source business intelligence BI suite, in cooperation with Sun Microsystems , today announced plans to integrate Pentaho's reporting engine into future releases of the OpenOffice.org suite. The enhancement, planned to be available with OpenOffice.org 2.3,...
- Research articles 2007-04-19
- CollabNet Marks Five Years of Providing OpenOffice.org Project with Essential Collaboration Tools and Community Infrastructure; Record Levels of Community Participation Achieved
- BRISBANE, Calif. -- CollabNet, the leading provider of on-demand SaaS distributed software development solutions, today announced its continued support for the OpenOffice.org community. Record levels of open source and corporate participation have grown the community to more than 272,000 registered users and in excess of 10 million web visitors per...
- Research articles 2005-10-17
- CollabNet Helps OpenOffice.org Surpass 170,000 Registered Members
- CollabNet, the leading provider of on demand distributed software development solutions and host to the OpenOffice.org community, today announced it has helped OpenOffice.org surpass its 170,000 registered member mark, further solidifying its place as the world's most successful corporate-initiated and sponsored open-source project.
- Research articles 2004-10-27
- OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta and Extensions Show Strong Momentum; Office Productivity Suite Delivers Document Accessibility for Mac Users with Disabilities
- Advanced Integration of OpenOffice.org with Apple VoiceOver, ODF Editing is Now Accessible on All Key Desktop Platforms; More Than 100 Extensions Available for OpenOffice.org
- Research articles 2008-05-29
- OpenOffice.org Office Suite Available for Use on Any U3 Smart Drive; U3 to Release Framework for Open Source Development on U3 Platform
- LAS VEGAS -- U3TM LLC today reaffirmed its commitment to providing consumers a way to carry and access their office documents on any computer with the release of U3 smart versions of OpenOffice.org's popular suite of office productivity software. Users can now edit and view their Office documents, presentations and...
- Research articles 2006-01-04
- U3 Adds New Software from OpenOffice.org, Maxthon, ThinkFree Plus New U3 Smart Drives from Clever-Stuff, SanDisk, PQI and TwinMOS
- LAS VEGAS -- One year since its debut at the International Consumer Electronics Show, U3TM LLC returns to Las Vegas with a bevy of hardware partners offering U3 smart drives, thousands of software companies registered to develop U3 smart applications and a host of new announcements. U3 revealed today that...
- Research articles 2006-01-04
- j2 Global Offers eFax Solution for Users of Sun Microsystems' StarOffice, StarSuite and OpenOffice.org Productivity Suites
- LOS ANGELES -- j2 Global Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ:JCOM) is offering eFax online faxing service to the users of Sun Microsystems' StarOfficeTM, StarSuiteTM software and the leading open-source productivity suite, OpenOffice.org.
- Research articles 2007-10-30
- Get More from OpenOffice with Writer's Tools Extension
- If you took my advice (and you always do, right?) and dumped Microsoft Office in favor of OpenOffice 3.0, here's a cool way to juice it up: The Writer's Tools extension for OpenOffice lets you back up documents, look up and translate words and phrases, manage text snippets, keep tabs...
- Blog posts 2008-10-22
- OpenOffice 3.0 Beta Adds Mac, Docx Support and More
- Seems like just a month ago that Microsoft Office competitor OpenOffice.org trotted out version 2.4. Today the open-source office suite debuted its long-awaited 3.0 version albeit in beta form, adding native support for Mac OS X, import filters for Office 2007, an updated interface, and countless other tweaks and...
- Blog posts 2008-05-09
- Will i4i Go After OpenOffice with XML Patent?
- Open-source productivity suites such as OpenOffice.org rely on the format, which Microsoft has also pledged to support. But the suit won by i4i opens the door to some nasty possibilities. Case in point: XML is a public-domain format, and i4i's patent focuses on "custom XML,". But the ruling also could...
- News items 2009-08-15
- Oracle Backing Microsoft Office Rival
- Oracle's OpenOffice.org development team is testing a new user interface that resembles the "ribbon" interface that Microsoft introduced with Office 2007. This is far from the first attempt at breaking into the Microsoft desktop monopoly, but given Oracle CEO Larry Ellison’s insatiable desire to beat Microsoft at...
- Blog posts 2009-08-07
- Replace Pricey Microsoft Office with Free OpenOffice 2.4
- Replace Pricey Microsoft Office with Free OpenOffice 2.4NeoOffice for MacYou can run OpenOffice on a Mac under X11, but there is a better way. NeoOffice is based on OpenOffice, but it has the normal Mac Aqua interface (Agua is the name of the usual Mac application style. It is not...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-30
- New Google Docs Gadget a good offline step, falls short
- Alt: Google Docs offers a solid set of "productivity in the cloud" features that allow users to get basic office work done with nothing but a browser. Earlier this year, Google took steps towards improving one of Google Docs' weakest areas—offline access—and now it's taking another with a new gadget...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Recover Lost or Damaged Data with Free (or Nearly Free) Recovery Tools
- Recover Lost or Damaged Data with Free or Nearly Free Recovery ToolsMac toolsDoes anyone have any suggestions for Mac friendly tools? I have a friend whose hard drive has stopped working and she has lost all sorts of important files.If you know of anything it will be a great relief.Regards,RhonaRE:...
- Discussion threads 2008-02-18
- Microsoft Would Be Nuts to Acquire Sun [Updated]
- My colleague Michael Hickins has made the argument that Microsoft should acquire Sun Microsystems now that talks have apparently broken down between Sun and IBM. I've got to disagree. Even though Microsoft could clearly afford the price tag, it would be a foolish choice for almost more strategic reasons you...
- Blog posts 2009-04-06
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