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An open answer to Office
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| The decade-old OpenOffice was the Free and
| Open Source riposte to Microsoft's Office
| that has entrenched itself in the office
| productivity suite segment.
|
| Originally a proprietary software
| application that was open-sourced by Sun
| Microsystems, OpenOffice has come a long
| way, with the release of its new-improved
| version 3.2. Today, having crossed 300
| million downloads â a third of this over the
| last year â this community project is among
| the most successful stand-alone Open Source
| products.
|
| Data legacy and incompatibility issues, as a
| majority of office software was already
| using proprietary applications, and
| widespread piracy, retarded early growth.
| Constantly competing with MS Office, it got
| better with successive iterations, though it
| has not quite caught up. The latest version,
| Office 2010, is due for release and offers
| browser versions of Word, Excel and
| PowerPoint, across the PC, mobile phone and
| browser.
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http://www.hindu.com/2010/03/14/stories/2010031455281300.htm
Business as usual for Oracle/Sun
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| DATABASE OUTFIT ORACLE spent the morning
| trying to convince customers and partners
| that it will be business as usual for Sun,
| following the recently completed acquisition
| of the company.
|
| During an event in London today the company
| stressed that none of Sun's product lines
| were being halted, but that in fact billions
| was being poured into the continued
| development of Sun hardware and software.
|
| According to the Sun/Oracle presenters the
| combined company can now address the entire
| stack from the applications, through the
| middleware, operating system and
| virtualisation layer right through to the
| bare metal hardware and storage disks.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1596120/business-usual-oracle-sun
Recent:
Rebranding OpenOffice.org
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| As you can see, the font, the colour
| sequence and even the shade of blue have
| changed. We will not stop there, and will
| also work on other visual elements, such as
| our icons. And hereâs the great part: You
| can help too, by joining our Branding
| Initiative and participate on our dedicated
| mailing list. I hope you enjoy our new
| designs. Stay tuned!
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http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2010/03/04/rebranding-openofficeorg/
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