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News Google plans to hire programmers to improve OpenOffice.org, a demonstration of its affinity for open source initiatives and one the company believes also shows sound practical sense. OpenOffice has its roots in Sun Microsystems' StarOffice suite of... [01 Nov 2005]
Google and Sun get together for desktop apps
News Sun Microsystems and Google plan to announce a collaborative effort that some analysts speculate could elevate the profile of the OpenOffice.org and Java software packages. Sun has the open source OpenOffice.org software suite and its close... [04 Oct 2005]
Malware writers target open source
News The recent OpenOffice worm may be a sign that malware writers are starting to target the increasingly popular open source software, industry experts say. First discovered last month, the OpenOffice macro-based worm is spread through a file called... [14 Jun 2007]
Google and Sun tie the knot
News Sun Microsystems and Google announced a multi-year partnership on Tuesday to help spread and develop each other's software, a deal that includes OpenOffice.org, Java and OpenSolaris from Sun, and Google's Toolbar. [05 Oct 2005]
Open source swap for Exchange touted
News OpenGroupware.org is a sister project to OpenOffice.org, a community bent on developing open source desktop applications that compete with Microsoft's dominant Office applications. Just to be perfectly clear, [OpenGroupware.org] is an MS Exchange... [14 Jul 2003]
Munich delays Windows to Linux switch yet again
News The migration of 14,000 desktops from Windows NT 4.0 to Linux, and Microsoft Office 97 and 2000 to OpenOffice.org, was originally planned to start in 2005 but the schedule has now slipped, Peter Hofmann, the project leader of the migration, said... [06 Sep 2005]
'Desktop Linux for developing nations' guide from UN debuts
News It includes basic information on how to manage files, browse the Web and produce OpenOffice documents on a Linux PC. The Linux user manual is available online in OpenOffice and PDF format. A Linux desktop manual for novice PC users has been... [24 Aug 2004]
Linux wins over Austria's capital
News Erwin Gillich, the head of IT at Vienna's municipal authority, said this will be a 'soft migration' where users have the option of switching from Microsoft Office 2000 to the open source productivity application OpenOffice.org, and from Microsoft... [26 Jan 2005]
French MPs dump Windows for Linux
News The project, backed by MPs Richard Cazenave and Bernard Carayon of the UMP party, will see 1,154 French parliamentary workstations running on an open source OS, with OpenOffice.org, Firefox and an open source email client. [24 Nov 2006]
Sun backs EU push for Office document interoperability
News In a recent letter to the European Commission (EC), Sun President Jonathan Schwartz said he agrees with a recommendation by the EC's Interchange of Data between Administrations (IDA) unit to establish the format used by OpenOffice.org, an open... [01 Oct 2004]
Munich pulls the curtains on Windows
News In addition to switching operating systems, the city plans to move from Microsoft's Office productivity software to the open-source OpenOffice. Munich, faced with the end of support for its Windows NT computers, pitted Linux and OpenOffice against... [29 May 2003]
Massachusetts ditches Microsoft for open source
News In a paper laying out the state technology strategy, Massachusetts specified only two document types that could be used in the future: OpenDocument, used in open source applications such as OpenOffice.org, and PDF - said the Financial Times. [02 Sep 2005]
Macs not safe from viruses, says Sophos founder
News Hruska's comments come just weeks after an OpenOffice macro-virus, which is capable of infecting Mac OS, Linux and Windows, was discovered. On its website, rival antivirus company Symantec said the virus is being distributed and OpenOffice users... [08 Jun 2007]
Call for Dell to sell Linux PCs
News Dell said: "It's exciting to see the IdeaStorm community's interest in open source solutions like Linux and OpenOffice. While Dell responded to four other suggestions from the IdeaStorm, it chose not to respond to two of the top six requests, one... [26 Feb 2007]
Does Google buy spell Office challenge?
News Last October, Google's partnership with Sun set off intense speculation that the companies would collaborate around OpenOffice.org to create a hosted applications suite. But the two companies merely announced that they would work together on... [10 Mar 2006]
