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French Police Find Open Source Arresting
News French police are planning to switch from Microsoft Office to open source productivity suite OpenOffice.org, a spokesman confirmed on Wednesday. It is understood that a total of 80,000 PCs will eventually be migrated to the open source productivity...
[January 19, 2005, 12:10]
StarOffice Meets Star Wars
News StarOffice, Sun's open source productivity application suite that includes word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, and database applications for the Solaris, Windows and Linux platforms, would replace Applix on more than 10,000 of DISA's...
[June 26, 2001, 14:50]
Novell To Support Microsoft Office Documents
News Novell, a business software maker, distributes its own edition of the open-source desktop productivity suite OpenOffice. By January, Novell said, users of the OpenOffice word processor will be able to read documents saved in the Office Open XML...
[December 5, 2006, 9:36]
OpenOffice Makes Government Inroads
News Two significant government bodies, the Israel Department of Commerce and the City of Austin, Texas, are moving toward replacing Microsoft Office installations with the OpenOffice.org productivity suite.
[December 18, 2003, 13:25]
Free Office Suite Reaches Milestone Release
News OpenOffice.org developers have put the finishing touches on their productivity suite, as end-users and businesses continue to show interest in alternatives to Microsoft software. Partly because of this, Gartner believes StarOffice has a chance of...
[May 2, 2002, 13:08]
Microsoft Dismisses Becta Criticism
News The Becta report called on PC suppliers to offer schools the choice of at least one open-source office-productivity suite. In a report released on Wednesday, Becta recommended that schools should not upgrade to Microsoft's latest operating system...
[January 10, 2008, 11:28]
The CIO 'born And Bred' In The IT Department
News It has, however, tested one potential replacement for Microsoft desktop software - Sun's office productivity suite, on which the open source OpenOffice.org productivity suite is based. We have a lab that runs a LAN of open source technologies...
[August 18, 2005, 15:50]
Microsoft Limits Support For Office On Linux
News Many enterprises are hesitant to switch to an open source platform for fear of losing compatibility with the productivity suite. CrossOver Office allows Microsoft Office XP's productivity suite -- with the exception of Access and Outlook components...
[April 24, 2003, 8:10]
Sun To Push StarOffice For Apple's OS X
News My experience is that StarOffice is just not a widely popular productivity suite," said Technology Business Research analyst Tim Deal. However, ThinkFree sells a $50 Office suite using Java. X suite for Macintosh.
[July 29, 2002, 8:55]
China Dictates Purchase Of Local Software
News The move, aimed at breaking the dominance of US-based Microsoft on desktop computers, will eliminate Microsoft's Windows operating system and Office productivity suite from hundreds of thousands of Chinese government computers in a few years' time.
[August 18, 2003, 9:30]
Microsoft Talks Up 'entry-level' Windows
News Speaking at the Singapore launch of Office System 2003 productivity suite last November, Oliver Roll, Microsoft general manager for Asia-Pacific and Greater China, said that while the single-price policy won't change, the company was willing to...
[February 9, 2004, 9:15]
Open Source PCs Take A Passage To India
News The computers will be pre-loaded with either Microsoft Windows or Linux and a number of open source products, including the OpenOffice.org productivity suite, the Firefox browser and the Columba email client, according to Raman.
[November 16, 2005, 13:40]
South Korean Govt Goes Open Source
News Thousands of computers in ministries, government-linked organisations and universities in South Korea will replace the Microsoft Windows operating system and Office productivity suite with open-source alternatives under the plan, according to the...
[October 1, 2003, 9:30]
OpenOffice.org
Downloads The product is a multiplatform office productivity suite. OpenOffice.org is both an open-source product and a project. Written in C++ and with documented APIs licensed under the LGPL and SISSL open-source protocols, OpenOffice.org allows any...
[May 8, 2008, 3:47]
OpenOffice.org
Downloads The product is a multiplatform office productivity suite. OpenOffice.org is both an open-source product and a project. Written in C++ and with documented APIs licensed under the LGPL and SISSL open-source protocols, OpenOffice.org allows any...
[May 8, 2008, 3:53]
Korea, China, Japan Start Open-source Collaboration
News Thousands of computers in ministries, government-linked organisations and universities in South Korea will replace the Microsoft Windows operating system and Office productivity suite with open-source alternatives under the plan, according to the...
[April 1, 2004, 12:30]
The Novell Migration To Linux: Real Business Value
White Papers Novell set out to revolutionize its entire IT infrastructure to take advantage of all Linux has to offer while integrating the strengths of NetWare and the rest of the Novell product suite. Like any other company today, Novell is always on the look...
[October 4, 2005, 0:00]
Killing Microsoft's Clippy With Open Source
News As a distinguished engineer and architect at Novell, Meeks is tasked with tackling interoperability between Novell's OpenOffice.org productivity suite and Microsoft Office, a job made easier as a result of the high-profile tie-up between the...
[September 27, 2007, 18:30]
OpenOffice.org Reveals Marketing Ambitions
News The developers of OpenOffice.org, the open-source office productivity suite, have unveiled details of a major marketing push to coincide with the OpenOffice.org Conference, which has been taking place in Berlin, Germany, this week.
[September 24, 2004, 18:10]
Open Standards Push Mannheim To Linux
News We migrated from Microsoft Exchange Server 2005 to Oracle Collaboration Suite because it [OCS] supports open standards - it is proprietary software but it uses standard protocols," says Armbruster, talking to ZDNet UK about his plans.
[November 29, 2005, 17:15]
