Open Source Apps for Small Biz: Desktop to Backup
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| But critics say that
| Office has become so bloated over the years that 80 percent of customers use
| only 20 percent of its features.
|
| Compare the standard package for Office 2007, which retails for $399, to
| OpenOffice.org, an open-source office suite, which is free. The suite
| includes a word processor, equation editor, visual database, presentation
| authoring and drawing application.
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/entdev/article.php/3729946
Switching Office Suites from Microsoft Office to OpenOffice.org
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| You have your own reasons: price, or principles, or you’re setting up a nice
| cheap Linux laptop for your daughter to use at school. Here are a couple
| things I like to talk about.
|
| Spend your money on something important
|
| I realize that since I’m targeting this article at individuals, that the
| upgrade or full price of Microsoft Office might not make or break you. But if
| it’s you and your family; your small business; your volunteer organization
| that feeds homeless families…now you even more seriously need to look at the
| right way to spend your money. Microsoft Office is a habit, and many people
| don’t even think about whether they need it. Here’s your opportunity to rank
| it in comparison to other things you could spend $100 or $500 on, multiplied
| by the number of licenses.
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http://www.fanaticattack.com/2008/switching-office-suites-from-microsoft-office-to-openofficeorg.html
Recent:
Impressive Eye Candy: 3D OpenGL Transitions
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| PowerPoint's old push-down transition has done its 15 years of service, and
| it's time for it to retire. Do the sleepy faces in your meetings agree?
| OpenOffice.org Impress 2.4 has the answer in the form ten 3D OpenGL-rendered
| transitions:
|
| * Flipping tiles
| * Outside turning cube
| * Revolving circles
| * Turning helix
| * Inside turning cube
| * Fall
| * Turn around
| * Iris
| * Turn down
| * Rochade
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http://www.oooninja.com/2008/02/eye-candy-3d-opengl-transitions-impress.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
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
[German] Federal Employment Office switches to Linux
http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/102218
French police deal blow to Microsoft
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| The French paramilitary police force said Wednesday it is ditching Microsoft
| for the free Linux operating system, becoming one of the biggest
| administrations in the world to make the break.
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http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iU4Lq7tOR_WVOJLZ3IeRaIH03x6w
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