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Macs more likely to be used on your network but you didn't pay for them
Comment Alternatives such as OpenOffice.org and Apple's iWork may be able to satisfy the casual user who needs to do some basic writing, spreadsheet, or presentation work. silicon.com's CIO Jury doesn't expect IT departments to... [21 Sep 2009]
Microsoft wants to be teacher's pet with new software deal
News Under SESP, schools will not be required to pay licence fees for systems that aren't being used for educational needs, such as admin; that run non-Microsoft software - such as Mac OS X, Linux or OpenOffice; are incapable... [08 Jul 2009]
OpenOffice V3.x Security Design Weaknesses
White Paper However, the recent evolution of office suite towards free software exact level of risk of the OpenOffice suite with respect to document malware, this paper presents an up to date in-depth evaluation of its security... [30 Jun 2009]
Sun launches second version of OpenSolaris
News New third-party software includes file indexing and search tool Tracker, the Songbird media player and the Transmission BitTorrent client, as well as Firefox 3 and OpenOffice 3.0. Sun has launched the second release of... [08 Dec 2008]
Generating Generic XForms for OpenOffice
White Paper Because OpenOffice's internal representation is ODF XML, it is natural to generate ODF from other XML formats using an XSLT transformation. An XSLT Filter combines an XSLT stylesheet and some OpenOffice... [30 Nov 2008]
Photos: A first look at Canonical's Intrepid Ibex
Photo Ubuntu comes with a variety of applications, including OpenOffice.org (though not yet new version 3.0) and Gnome's Evolution software for email and calendars. Canonical recently released Ubuntu 8.10, aka Intrepid Ibex. [11 Nov 2008]
Canonical hires Ubuntu makeover team
News Both Ubuntu versions include OpenOffice, which is based on the GTK graphics library. GTK is also used by Gnome, so OpenOffice in KDE would have a different 'open' dialogue to that on the desktop.... [12 Sep 2008]
IBM-Linux love-in targets Vista grumblers
News Separately, Canonical said it will add Lotus Symphony - based on the OpenOffice.org productivity suite - to its Ubuntu application repositories, meaning the software can be automatically downloaded and installed on... [07 Aug 2008]
Ubuntu founder: 'Upstream' bugs must be quashed
News Shuttleworth wrote that, while Ubuntu had suffered from as many reported software flaws as OpenOffice, Mozilla, Gnome and KDE combined, most of the bugs had been found in the upstream source code. The founder of the... [01 Jul 2008]
IBM sings a Symphony to rival Office
News Lotus Symphony, based around the open-source OpenOffice.org, has been available as a free beta download since September 2007, and the word processor, spreadsheet and presentation programs are already bundled in IBM's... [09 Jun 2008]
OpenOffice 3.0 beta gets an airing
News The first beta-test version of the OpenOffice.org 3.0 productivity suite was released this week, adding significant features such as improved Mac OS X support and support for the OpenDocument 1.2 standard. [09 May 2008]
Microsoft Office 2007 fails to conform with OOXML
News In future, Brown hopes to repeat the test to see if the open-source alternative to Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, conforms with the Open Source Initiative version of the OpenDocument Format (ODF) document standard -... [21 Apr 2008]
Linux Desktop Hacks: View Word and PDF Files From Within Mutt
White Paper It is certainly possible to launch a GUI application such as OpenOffice.org or Acrobat Reader to view Word and PDF email attachments in Mutt. Mutt is an extremely powerful terminal-based email client that supports IMAP,... [24 Oct 2007]
Can Redmond rivals storm the Office stronghold?
News IBM has announced the release of Lotus Symphony, a suite of free desktop applications based on the OpenOffice.org open-source product. After years of watching Microsoft rake in billions of dollars from its desktop... [19 Sep 2007]
Macs versus PCs - the battle continues
News All we have to do is get people to start using OpenOffice and MySQL. silicon.com's continuing coverage of the Mac vs PC debate has sparked a furious debate among readers keen to defend their platform of choice. [18 Jul 2007]
