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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.
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
Microsoft's Firefox surprise
Insight commentary The software giant has released a Firefox plug-in. We'll just repeat that: Microsoft has released a Firefox plug-in.
Tags: Office suites, Open source, OpenOffice, Microsoft Corp., Mobile, Web Browser, Office Open XML, Plug-in, GPL, Mozilla Firefox
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...
Microsoft boosts OOXML compatibility
News Documents created using the Office Open XML document format can now be viewed via a Firefox plug-in, while OOXML's compatibility with ODF and Apache has also been enhanced.
Tags: Office suites, Open source, Software integration, OpenOffice, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, Office Open XML, Plug-in, Tool, Interoperability
10 predictions for Linux and open source in 2009
Techguide The year holds a great deal of promise for the Linux OS and open source software--from an explosion in the mobile arena to widespread adoption of OpenOffice 3, says industry watcher.
Tags: Open source, Linux, OpenOffice, Microsoft Corp., KDE, File System, GNOME, Ubuntu, operating system, GNOME 2.24
OpenOffice 3 beta: More compatibility, new features
News Sun Microsystems delivers its first beta of OpenOffice 3 for Windows and Mac. But its lackluster user-interface remains almost the same.
Tags: Open source, Office suites, OpenOffice, Wiki, Apple Macintosh, Sun Microsystems Inc., Beta, Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Office, Adobe PDF
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
OpenOffice 3.0 release hit by server crash
News The new version of the free office productivity suite can read OOXML and work natively on the Mac, but demand appeared to have crashed the OpenOffice.org servers on its release day.
Tags: Microsoft Office, XML, Mac OS, OpenOffice, Open Source, Apple Macintosh, Apple Mac OS, Server, Microsoft Office 2007, marketing
OOXML expert: ODF standard is broken
News The ISO standard for ODF documents is impossible to implement, says an expert who has now found both OpenOffice and Microsoft Office 2007 non-standard compliant.
Tags: Standards, Office suites, OpenOffice, OpenDocument Format, Office Open XML, Alex Brown, consortium, intellectual property, Microsoft Office 2007, marketing
OOXML expert: ODF flaws remain
News The Open Document Format community has defended its standard, but major contributor to rival OOXML standard Alex Brown says his criticisms remain unresolved.
Tags: Software, Standards, Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, Office Open XML, Open Source, Alex Brown, Flaw
OpenSuse 11 released
News The latest version of the Novell- and AMD-sponsored Linux distribution is now available for download.
Tags: Open source, DVD, Novell OpenSuse, OpenOffice, Novell Inc., multimedia, Linux Distribution, Linux, strategy, desktop
Red Hat says Enterprise Linux 5.2 is greener
News With new software from Red Hat and Novell, Linux vendors are competing to offer more compute power for less electrical power.
Tags: Linux, Server platforms, Green IT, OpenOffice, Red Hat Inc., IT Budget, Novell Inc., Mozilla Firefox, software, energy efficiency
Shuttleworth: Open source desktops need a facelift
News Chief executive Mark Shuttleworth has said Canonical is hiring a team to make open source desktop software more appealing.
Tags: Open source, Linux desktop OS, OpenOffice, KDE, GNOME, Ubuntu, Apple Macintosh, software, OpenGL, Mark Shuttleworth
OOXML gains compatibility via ISVs
News Since its ISO ratification, Microsoft's document format has garnered support from third-party applications. But developers say it's not ideological--it's just business.
Tags: Standards, Office suites, Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, OpenDocument Format, Google Inc., Red Hat Inc., Office Open XML, Novell Inc., Microsoft Office 2007
