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OpenOffice vs. Google Apps
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| I could continue, but I would only be repeating the same refrain. Compared to
| OpenOffice.org, Google Apps is a sub-standard set of productivity tools. It
| might fare slightly better against KOffice and AbiWord and Gnumeric, two
| other FOSS office suites that have traditionally been less full-featured than
| OpenOffice.org, but not significantly so.
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| Similarly, you might find network apps that would far better than Google
| Apps, although they are less well-known. But, again, the advantage would lie
| with FOSS.
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| Which leads to one simple question: With all these politically free,
| feature-rich alternatives available for the download, why would anyone choose
| to work with Google Apps?
|
| This is one case in which free software philosophy and pragmatism are in
| complete agreement. Once the novelty wears off, Google Apps is simply an
| inferior set of tools.
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3784091/OpenOffice+vs
+Google+Apps.htm
Open Source App Suites: Try the Individual Components
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| Many web workers avoid the cost of Microsoft Office productivity applications
| by using alternatives, including hosted applications online such as Google
| Docs and Zoho’s applications. Even if you’ve already settled on some Office
| alternatives for core productivity applications such as word processing and
| spreadsheets, though, it’s worth looking at some of the free applications
| found in open source productivity suites.
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http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/11/10/open-source-app-suites-try-the-individual-components/
Recent:
Washington DC latest to drop Microsoft for web apps
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| Washington D.C. has joined 500,000+ businesses and organizations in moving
| its communication and productivity tools into the cloud. Vivek Kundra, CTO
| for the District, signed an agreement with Google to migrate the
| organization's 38,000 employees to Google Apps, the search giant's web-based
| offering of communication and productivity tools. Washington D.C. is a
| not-insignificant win for Google, and yet another blow to Microsoft's
| incumbent Office suite, as a surge of web apps steadily replaces their
| desktop counterparts.
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081012-washington-dc-latest-to-drop-microsoft-for-web-apps.html
Gameloft Moves 1,000 Desktops to Ubuntu Linux
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| “It’s been a pretty big deployment, well over 1000 desktops and it’s been a
| huge success,” crows the source. “Ubuntu does the same job [as Windows] for
| zero cash. The most painful thing about the change over was moving to
| Thunderbird from Outlook. No one has batted an eyelid about moving to Gnome.”
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http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/10/03/gameloft-moves-1000-desktops-to-ubuntu-linux/
CEO's Diary: Linux?
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| He has a set a number of practical tests. One was to test transitions to
| Windows Vista or Linux. People resisted both, but one no more than the other.
| So why not Linux?
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| As important, he’s tested Open Office on a trial group. After very little
| effort in translation most could hardly spot the difference from a Microsoft
| product. After all, most people hardly use any of the features in either.
|
| The big issue now is email management. If we can manage that and diary
| scheduling OK (which is a big question) the real issue is when some Linux
| platforms are now very stable and have long term support, why are we
| Microsoft based?
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http://www.accountingweb.co.uk/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=185613
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