Google Apps Draw Converts
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| What's winning over the first Google converts? Money. Consider
| realty company Prudential Preferred Properties in Chicago, which
| is feeling a sting of between $350 and $400 per Microsoft Office
| license. "We have instances in which the Office license was more
| expensive than the PC it's on," says Camden Daily, Prudential's
| director of IT.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20070421/tc_pcworld/130997
Microsoft Office rivals advance
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| Rivals to Microsoft's Office productivity suite are sharpening up
| their game. The OpenOffice.org community is planning to add reports
| to its database, while SoftMaker is to extend its productivity
| line-up with a database, presentation tool and scripting language.
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http://www.pcw.co.uk/itweek/news/2188237/microsoft-office-rivals-advance
Related:
FAA May Ditch Microsoft's Windows Vista And Office For Google And Linux Combo
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| Bowen said he's in talks with the aviation safety agency's main
| hardware supplier, Dell Computer, to determine if it could
| deliver Linux-based computers capable of accessing Google
| Apps through a non-Microsoft browser once the FAA's XP-based
| computers pass their shelf life.
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=197800480
And the centre of your desktop is...
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| We had an overwhelming response to our reader poll in this area with over
| 4,800 of you participating, so thanks to those who took the time.
|
| [...]
|
| The only competition at the moment is from open source office suites,
| OpenOffice in particular, which around one in five Reg readers are
| personally using.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/20/desktop_office_suites/
Google manager: Google Apps replaced Microsoft Office at 100,000 businesses
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| Google's newly released online productivity suite Google Apps has
| already replaced Microsoft Office at more than 100,000 small to
| medium enterprises and has been deployed at two of the largest
| companies in the world, according to the search leader's
| enterprise product boss.
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http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/9889/53/
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
The GravityZoo OOo porting project
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| When OpenOffice.org is "GravityZood", it will become a suite of
| productivity applications that are always available, online, via a broad
| range of devices. It will be possible to share and collaborate in
| real-time, to switch from one device (e.g. a PC) to another (Mobile)
| device. There will also be no need to save data, because everything you
| produce is saved automatically on the network. There is no need to
| download, install or update, the latest version is just available and
| accessible from any GravityZoo enabled client.
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http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=19660
Next OpenOffice release to include Pentaho BI
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| Open-source business intelligence software vendor Pentaho Corp. is
| hoping a new tie-up unveiled Thursday with the OpenOffice.org
| community and Sun Microsystems Inc. will bring its BI offerings
| to the attention of many more new users.
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/041907-next-openoffice-release-to-include.html?fsrc=rss-linux-news
http://tinyurl.com/ywysvf
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