[How He Became an Open Source Believer...]
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| I had a great job working for a great company, with great people, great pay
| and great benefits. The company won several awards for the best place to work
| for several years in a row. But I walked away from it.
|
| [...]
|
| But about three years ago, things started to change. In January 2004, IBM
| decided to wade into the open source area with the release of their
| development platform, Eclipse, along with the creation of the Eclipse
| Foundation in order to allow a vendor-neutral and an open, transparent
| community. It was quickly followed by an announcement from Google,
| highlighting their new Email with 1 GB of free storage—more than 100 times
| more storage than any other free mail service was offering. RedHat, one of
| the first businesses based on the open source model, started making money. In
| October of 2004, Mark Shuttleworth, the young internet multimillionaire who
| bought a ride on a Russian space trip, decided to put some of his time, money
| and energy into building a Linux-based operating system to help children get
| the technology they needed for free. At the end of the year, OpenOffice was
| declared the best all-around office suite by PC Pro Labs, beating out
| Microsoft Office 2003.
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http://www.techlearning.com/showArticle.php?articleID=196604987
OpenOffice beating out Microsoft Office 2003. That's nothing new. Just
brainwash from Microsoft (or Burton Group/Proxy) and lies about OOo resources
management...
Related:
Office software shootout: OpenOffice.org Writer vs. Micosoft Word, round three
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| As in the previous two comparisons, Writer emerged as the winner in the
| majority of categories. However, in many categories, the decision is not as
| obvious as in previous comparisons. For the first time in several releases,
| Word's designers seem to be making significant changes. These changes are not
| always successful -- in fact, the reordering of menus into ribbons might be
| seen by the cynical as an attempt to hide some long-term embarrassments, such
| as the ongoing problems with master documents. But at least the effort is
| being made. Writer, by contrast, seems to be standing still, and some of its
| problems -- notably, cross-references -- are almost as long-neglected as some
| of Word's.
|
| As free software, Writer has advantages that Word is unlikely to match -- its
| philosophy, its price, its easy availability, and its frequent updates.
| However, speaking only in terms of functionality, Writer seems to be coasting
| a little on its reputation. If that continues, its superiority may be eroded,
| or dissolved altogether.
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http://www.linux.com/feature/118986
Vietnam Switches to OpenOffice.org!
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| More than 20,000 computers from Party offices nationwide will switch to using
| OpenOffice instead of Microsoft Office from early 2008.
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http://saigontimes.com.vn/daily/BRIEFs.asp?loai=1&Sobao=3022&Ten=briefly%20today
Thailand: Egat turns to open source to cut costs
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| There are 7,000 PC units based on Open Office or 70 per cent of all 12,000 PC
| units in the organisation.
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http://nationmultimedia.com/2007/08/28/technology/technology_30046747.php
Dell Offers Ubuntu, What About OpenOffice?
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| According to the IdeaStorm website, pre-installed OpenOffice is
| "Under Consideration," which appears to be just below "Coming
| Soon" in their hierarchy of possible implementation. Let's
| hope it moves to "Already Offered" soon!
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http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/552
Open Office vs. Microsoft Office
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| This has been just a short overview comparing Open Office to Microsoft
| Office to demonstrate that you don't have to pay a lot of money to get
| a great Office Suite. In fact, you may not have to spend any money to
| get a great Office Suite.
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http://www.ubuntunoob.com/index2.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=17&pop=1&page=0&Itemid=1
Microsoft Office or OpenOffice?
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| Let's turn to Microsoft Office. Again, it brings in a ton of
| revenue to Redmond, even though there are full office productivity
| suites that compete with it. My guess is that many of you can't
| name one though -- and that is what Microsoft counts on, which is
| branding power. The full-featured OpenOffice productivity suite
| is pretty darn impressive (I've used it), and it's completely
| free and interoperable with Microsoft Office (not sure about
| Office 2007). Why don't more people use it then? Lack of knowing
| it exists is a possibility, and having to download the suite or
| order it for about $10 on CD may be obstacles. Plus, you can't
| find it on Best Buy shelves. If customers start becoming smarter
| and find out out about OpenOffice or even Google Inc.'s Google
| Apps, could a large piece of Microsoft's kingdom come
| crashing down?
|
|
| [Disclosure: I own MSFT shares as of 5-29-07]
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http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2007/05/29/microsoft-office-or-openoffice/
NeoOffice: It's Ready for Primetime
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| Four weeks ago I decided to try using Neo Office, the Open Source
| word processor, spreadsheet, presentation and drawing program. Neo
| Office is based on Open Office which was created by Sun Microsystems,
| and then released out into the wild as an Open Source project. It
| was developed to work on Windows, Linux and Mac OSX.
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http://www.surfbits.com/?p=1160
Chinese software company to tailor OpenOffice
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| RedFlag produces a Chinese variation of OpenOffice.org called
| RedOffice. The company is a subsidiary of the Chinese Academy of Science.
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http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9722855-7.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=NewsBlog
IBM Adds Lotus Notes Code To OpenOffice Project
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| The stakes are high as an increasing number of government and enterprise
| software buyers are insisting that the applications they purchase conform to
| internationally recognized standards.
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201805296&cid=nl_IWK_daily
IBM to give OpenOffice the Outlook e-mail killer it needs?
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| Has the Outlook killer for OpenOffice finally arrived?
|
| OpenOffice is the most promising open source alternative to Microsoft Office
| that runs on most Linux distributions, Windows, Macintosh and BSD but to date
| it has lacked an integrated e-mail service such as the Outlook client that is
| integrated in Microsoft Office.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1401
Why OpenOffice Needs IBM
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| Contributing to an open source Outlook effort would help IBM, OpenOffice, and
| all of us in search of a great PIM-Email-Address Book solution.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/Greenfield/?p=113
Touch of button opens up IBM open source technologies
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| The syndication tool allows users to access a wide range of open source
| technologies across a variety of topics including Web 2.0 technologies, game
| development and Web innovation through a web site called IBM developerWorks.
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http://media-newswire.com/release_1053946.html
Open Office provides no-cost word processing
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| OpenOffice offers many of the same applications as Microsoft Office,
| including a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation program and database,
| rivaling Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access. It also includes a drawing
| program and an equations program.
|
| The software looks and feels like Microsoft Office, and it can read and
| display most files created in other programs. According to one reviewer, it
| also does just fine saving documents that can be read by the proprietary
| programs.
|
| [...]
|
| And the beauty of open-source is that you can help make the product better.
| Although the software is based on code acquired by Sun Microsystems, the
| project invites users to offer ideas, identify bugs and, if they're
| technically proficient, offer fixes.
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http://www.theolympian.com/business/story/309159.html
Sun Adds New Twinkle to StarOffice, OpenOffice
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| Roughly 1 million copies of OpenOffice.org are downloaded per week, not
| including distributions through vendors such as Google, Herring said.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/60767.html
Migrating a city government to OpenOffice
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| Dave Richards is an IT administrator for a city government. The city has been
| using OpenOffice.org for about six years. Dave's a Linux guru, and helps run
| an elegant, efficient Linux network with a nice big server and lots of fairly
| old dumb terminals running OpenOffice.org at a very acceptable speed.
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http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid39_gci1264406,00.html
Does OpenOffice have an unfair notoriety as a performance hog?
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| Therefore, do not fall for the statement that OpenOffice.org is more bloated.
| Those statements either stem from ignorance or are FUD. Both are dangerous.
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http://freewebsoftwarereviews.blogspot.com/2008/01/final.html
[2006:] 100,000,000 OpenOffice.org fans can't be wrong
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| Simon's official response explained the business rationale behind
| offering support for OpenOffice.org: "OpenOffice.org has becomep
| henomenally successful, Sun alone has shipped more than 70 million
| copies of OpenOffice.org 2.0," he said. "Out there, there
| are maybe 100 million copies of OpenOffice.org. It would be
| senseless to ignore that opportunity."
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http://www.businessreviewonline.com/os/archives/2006/11/100000000_openo.html
Tyler Tech: Open-source a software alternative
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| OpenOffice.org is, as the name would suggest, a full open-source suite of
| office programs. Every program a student ever needs is in here, from a
| writing program to a presentation creator similar to PowerPoint. The suite
| was originally developed by Sun Microsystems and was aimed solely at
| providing a free alternative to Microsoft Office. It is compatible with and
| can save files as any Microsoft Office format.
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http://media.www.thetowerlight.com/media/storage/paper957/news/2007/10/22/Life/Tyler.Tech.OpenSource.A.Software.Alternative-3045983.shtml
OpenOffice 3 Coming Soon
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| • release candidate for all languages: July 25th, 2008, begin of TCM testing
| • Product release: September 2nd, 2008 or OOoCon 2008 mid
| September.008-01-13/
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http://youtux.mybloges.com/2008/01/19/openoffice-3-coming-soon/
Closing Day at the Release Event
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| Alexander from OpenOffice talked about some of the possibilities of
| OpenDocument including dedicated C libraries to process the format which
| could be shared between apps. KOffice developers discussed plans for an
| OpenDocument API in kdelibs to make use of the format available throughout
| KDE.
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http://dot.kde.org/1200936055/
OpenOffice 3 has PDF import, native Aqua UI, and Tara Reid
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| We love OpenOffice.org, hereby referred to as OpenOffice like normal people
| do. We like the fact it does pretty much everything we need for free, we like
| the out-of-the box PDF and Flash support, its better-than-Word ability to
| work with large documents, and the joys of using a standard file format
| that’s actually, you know, a standard.
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http://blog.gobanquet.com/index.php/openoffice-3-has-pdf-import-native-aqua-ui-tara-reid/
Just a coincidence?
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| According to Davide Dozza, Chairman of Associazione PLIO: "The numbers are
| exactly the same. If it's just a coincidence, it's a very strange one.
| Downloads of the Italian version of OpenOffice.org were 800.000 in 2006 and
| 1.800.000 in 2007: the difference is exactly in the million of Italians
| that - according to Microsoft - have downloaded the trial version of Office
| 2007. We think that these users have decided to switch to OpenOffice.org as
| soon as they have realized that the effort to get used to the new ribbon
| interface is higher than the effort to migrate to the open source suite. In
| 2007, the majority of information requests has been about the compatibility
| with Windows Vista, and the trend stays unchanged in 2008".
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http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2008/01/just-coincidence.html
'We are not competing but contributing'
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| A well-acknowledged global trend is that most school children and first-time
| computer users get their basic computer lesson by learning to use Microsoft
| Office and Windows Operating System.
|
| This raises the hackles of many Open Source advocates who rue the fact that
| most schools and governments do not promote the use of Open Source software
| such as Sun Microsystems-sponsored OpenOffice. While Microsoft Office enjoys
| over 90 per cent of the market, OpenOffice.org and StarOffice are slowly
| making inroads into enterprises, government and education sectors.
| Localization efforts by contributors are enabling OpenOffice to reach more
| countries in multiple languages. Jim Parkinson, vice president, Collaborative
| Engineering, Sun Microsystems spoke to Priya Padmanabhan of CyberMedia News
| OpenOffice and Sun's commitment to promote developer efforts on the program.
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http://www.chennaionline.com/technology/details.aspx?sectid=itnews&linkid=%2FNews%2FNews-Reports%2F%25e2%2580%2598We-are-not-competing-but-contributing%25e2%2580%2599%2F28108103133%2F0%2F
Sun Adds New Twinkle to StarOffice, OpenOffice
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| Roughly 1 million copies of OpenOffice.org are downloaded per week, not
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| including distributions through vendors such as Google, Herring said.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/60767.html
German penal institutions looking into OpenOffice.org
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| It looks like that OpenOffice.org is also being used in areas where many of
| us don't expect it, or wouldn't research for. I have reports that some German
| penal institutions are looking into OpenOffice.org for their daily office
| work.
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http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2008/02/german-penal-institutions-looking-into.html
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