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OpenOffice.org: A 'dying horse'?
Insight commentary OpenOffice.org contributor Michael Meeks calls OpenOffice.org a "dying horse", and states there are only 24 active core developers.
Tags: Open source, Office suites, OpenOffice.org, Sun Microsystems Inc., Environment, Linux, blog, Open source, Office suites
Sun: OpenOffice still a 'great international effort'
News Development projects are underway to improve performance issues in the open source project, which remains a strong focus within the community, says exec.
Tags: Open source, Office suites, Software engineering/development, OpenOffice, OpenOffice.org, Developer, Sun Microsystems Inc., Contributions, e-mail, performance
M'sian public sector bolsters OSS adoption
News Open source momentum gets boost from Malaysia's government-led initiative that sees 71.1 percent of public sector agencies deploy open source software.
Tags: Open source, Local Government, OpenOffice.org, Open-source Software, public sector agency, public sector, software development, bank, Kuala Lumpur, agency
OpenOffice Beijing Conference is open
Blogs The 6th OpenOffice Annual Conference 2008 in Beijing is almost ready. I just got a nice entry pass from the organizing c...
Is OpenOffice.org a 'dying horse'?
News Not quite yet, say industry watchers, but "primary sponsor" Sun Microsystems should rethink its strategy and better drive the community ecosystem.
Tags: Open source, Product development and design, Software engineering/development, OpenOffice, Apache Software Foundation, OpenOffice.org, Open-source Software, David Mitchell, Contributor, Novell Inc.
OpenOffice patches file-processing flaws
News An update to the productivity suite, found on the Asus Eee and other Netbooks, has been issued to fix two problems that could let outsiders in.
Tags: Office suites, Notebooks and tablets, Security, Open source, Linux, OpenOffice, Acer Inc., OpenOffice.org, Arbitrary Code Execution, Flaw
Malaysia's schools get OpenOffice.org
News Move will affect some 300,000 PCs across the country, after government made the decision based on "positive" case studies, says local official.
Tags: Open source, Office suites, Security, OpenOffice.org, Open-source Software, Malaysia, public sector, software, knowledge, Internet
CentOS Linux developers threaten mutiny
News Programmers behind the Red Hat Enterprise Linux clone demand that its founder share project control--or maybe they'll leave.
Tags: Linux, Open source, PayPal, Red Hat Inc., Project, Open-source Software, Developer, Advertisement, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, proprietary software
Vote for Beijing to host OpenOffice.org
Blogs As I already indicated in my previous blog, Beijing submitted a proposal to host the 2008 International OpenOffice.org C...
StarOffice gains native Mac support
News The latest version of Sun's cut-rate productivity suite can also read--but not write--to the latest Office file formats.
Tags: Office suites, Mac OS, StarOffice, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, Google Inc., Office Open XML, Apple Macintosh, Sun Microsystems Inc., Microsoft Works
Upgrade to OpenOffice.org 2.0
Techguide Vincent Danen tells you why OpenOffice.org 2.0 is worth the immediate upgrade and the easiest way to install it.
Tags: Open source
OpenOffice.org is a worthy competitor for Microsoft Office
Insight The OpenOffice.org office suite has come a long way since its inception--so much so that it's now a viable alternative to Microsoft Office. See how this open source application fares against the Goliath Microsoft Office suite.
OpenOffice gets programming kit
News The OpenOffice.org group announces a kit that lets programmers build new modules for open-source alternatives to the Microsoft Office suite.
Sleepless nights for Microsoft as IBM joins OpenOffice.org?
Blogs Here is some good news. It was announced today that IBM will join the OpenOffice.org community. This is OpenOffice.org's...
Beijing to host 2008 International OpenOffice.org Conference
Blogs Thanks to everybody, who followed my appeal to cast votes for hosting the 2008 International OpenOffice.org Conference i...
