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Microsoft Plays the Open Source Software Game
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| Perhaps provoked by Canonical founder Mark
| Shuttleworth's pronouncement that "we want to
| put Ubuntu and free software on every single
| consumer PC that ships from a major
| manufacturer, the ultimate maverick move,"
| Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) saw fit to shed some
| new light on Office Starter 2010, Ina Fried,
| over at CNet, reports. This free edition of
| its Office software -- which will not include
| PowerPoint but will have crippled versions of
| Excel and Word -- will be given away with
| consumer machines in an effort to poison the
| well for competing open source productivity
| suites like OpenOffice (which includes a
| PowerPoint-compatible presentation application
| and full-featured spreadsheet and word
| processing programs.)
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| Microsoft appears to have woken up to the fact
| that free open-source Office clones like
| OpenOffice may prove to be the thin end of a
| very slippery wedge, and if users discover
| they can get by with it instead of paying for
| a full version of Microsoft's Office, then the
| next step will be to switch to Ubuntu (or some
| other Linux) instead of paying for Windows.
| Far better to nip the whole thing in the bud
| by giving away Office -- albeit a cut down
| version with cheesy ads that rotate every 45
| seconds -- for free, while dangling the chance
| to upgrade to a fuller featured version
| instantly (by purchasing an unlocking key) in
| front of frustrated users' noses.
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http://www.serverwatch.com/trends/article.php/3875916/Microsoft-Plays-the-Open-Source-Software-Game.htm
Related:
OpenOffice skakes Microsoft
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| OpenOffice is an open-source software outfit responsible for a bundle of
| productivity software that competes with the Seattle company's great cash
| cow, Microsoft Office.
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http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,24734388-39525,00.html
Small Businesses Tips: Software Alternatives Can Trim Costs
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| OpenOffice, a project from Sun Microsystems, offers almost all of the same
| core functionality of Office, including spreadsheets, word processing and
| presentation software. The program is a free download that will work on any
| computer running the Windows, Macintosh or Linux operating systems -- so even
| if you have a variety of systems at your business, employees can use the same
| familiar software on any machine.
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http://www.hispanicbusiness.com/technology/2008/12/2/small_businesses_tips_software_alternatives_can.htm
Review: OpenOffice.org 3.0
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| The six applications contained in OpenOffice are the Writer word processor,
| the Calc spreadsheet, the Impress presentation program, the Base database
| package, the Draw vector graphics application and the Math formulae editing
| tool.
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http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/software/2229014/review-openoffice-org
OpenOffice 3.0 reviewed
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| Nine years after Sun Microsystems bought StarOffice, the resulting
| OpenOffice.org project is has rolled out its 3.0 release. Enhanced format
| compatibility and features put it on par with Microsoft Office.
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http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS3894465425.html
OpenOffice.org Breaks Records Everywhere
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| All around the world, it seems, people just can't get enough of this amazing
| free office suite, which is now turning in serious market shares in some
| countries. For, example, according to this report, there are now 12 million
| users in Brazil, representing fully 25% of the entire office market there.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=1369&blogid=14
ODF approved as Swedish Standard
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| Without making a press release or public announcement the Swedish Standards
| Institute has formally approved ODF 1.0 as a national standard. Only the âSSâ
| prefix in SS-ISO/IEC 26300:2008 give away the status of the document.
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http://www.peterkrantz.com/2008/odf-approved-as-swedish-standard/
Brazilian Government Formalizes its Intention to Adopt ODF
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| Some very significant bodies of the Brazilian Government and government-owned
| corporations have just signed an agreement to adopt Open Document Format as
| their standard format for the exchange of electronic documents.
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http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/thompson/2008/08/28/brazilian-government-adopts-odf/
Melaka City Council's OSS migration and savings
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| In our ongoing series of Free and Open Source Software deployments in
| Malaysia, OpenMalaysiaBlog is proud to highlight the efforts of the City
| Council of Melaka. They were one of the first few departments to migrate
| completely to OpenOffice.org (98% of their 300 hundred seats. They need to
| retain a few copies of MS Office for some difficult proprietary files). Back
| in 8 December 2006, the Mayor of Melaka, Y.Bhg. Datoâ Haji Zaini bin Mohd
| Nor, presented "Successful Deployment Of OpenOffice In The Public Sector
| Seminar" and was very enthusiastic about OpenOffice.org.
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http://www.openmalaysiablog.com/2008/08/melaka-city-cou.html
The State of Kedah moves to OpenOffice.org
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| A case study submitted to the Open Source Competency Center by the Center of
| Information Technology, Office of the Chief Minister and State Secretary of
| Kedah, has indicated that OpenOffice.org has been installed in 70% of the
| computers in the Kedah state government agencies. There are currently 2,202
| installed seats and by the looks of it, the numbers will just keep rising!
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http://www.openmalaysiablog.com/2008/08/case-study-on-t.html
The entire State of Pahang moves to OpenOffice.org
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| Its just been made official that the State of Pahang is migrating all its
| productivity suites to OpenOffice.org. This succint memo from the State
| Secretary of Pahang entitled "Perlaksanaan Penggunaan Perisian OpenOffice.Org
| Di Semua Agensi dan Pentadbiran Negeri" (translated: "Implementation of
| OpenOffice.org suite in all State Agencies and Administrative centres")
| outlines the reasons for migrating, the benefits and how to proceed.
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http://www.openmalaysiablog.com/2008/08/the-entire-stat.html
French hospital migrates to OpenOffice.org
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| According to this French article, the French hospital of Thiers is migrating
| its 150 desktops to OpenOffice.org in order to spend money on training
| instead of licenses.
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http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/french_hospital_migrates_to_openoffice
Huge Success for the ODF Community
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| OpenOffice.org, which is just one implementation of ODF, is currently being
| downloaded more than 1.2M times per week and being distributed by popular
| hardware products like the Asus Eee PC. Government organizations around the
| world are adopting OpenOffice.org and/or ODF and have started to help each
| other with their adoption challenges. Thus, ODF has become a "market force"
| that can't be ignored anymore. Thus, again, congratulations and thank you to
| all the people who have contributed to the success of OpenOffice.org and ODF
| so far! Well done!
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http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/huge_success_for_the_odf
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