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RSS openofficeNovell ships latest SuSE Professional
In the bundle are several of the best-known Linux products, including the OpenOffice desktop software, from OpenOffice.org, and the Firefox Web browser, made by the Mozilla Foundation. Novell has shipped its latest bundle of Linux software for home... [21 Apr 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]
Migrating to desktop Linux? Take a look at Norway
Singapore plans to install Microsoft Office's open source competitor OpenOffice.org on 20,000 PCs, but has been unwilling to commit to migrating to Linux. The computers were set up with Windows 2000 and MS Office 2000, or with SuSE Linux 8.2, open... [30 Dec 2004]
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]
The problems with open source
OpenOffice warns you the first time you start OpenOffice Write the ability to write Microsoft Word format is not guaranteed. Similarly, OpenOffice is comparable to Microsoft Office in that it offers the same basic functions. [08 Aug 2005]
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]
Sun loses open source leader
Since then, Sun has tried numerous ways to release software, including more liberal Java licenses, the fully open source OpenOffice.org competitor to Microsoft Office, and a new open source licence for OpenSolaris. [21 Mar 2005]
Mac virus threat still "insignificant"
News One recent threat that affected some Apple users, called "Badbunny", was a worm that threatened OpenOffice documents. However, it was attacking the open-source office productivity suite rather than the Apple platform itself - Badbunny also affected... [12 Jul 2007]
Leaner, meaner Linux makes savings for Bergen
The City of Munich, which plans to migrate 14,000 desktops to open source, has switched to a Mozilla browser and is due to start migrating to OpenOffice in the first half of next year. The Ministry of Defence in Singapore has installed OpenOffice... [12 Nov 2004]
Open source apps given to millions in India
News The government has started distributing CDs containing Tamil-language versions of various open source applications, including the Firefox browser, the OpenOffice.org productivity suite and the Columba email client. [26 May 2005]
Linux gets warm reception in Chile
The EduLinux distribution includes various open source applications including the office productivity application OpenOffice.org and the Mozilla browser. Linux has secured another role in the education sector through a government initiative in Chile. [13 Jan 2005]
