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  • OpenOffice.org goes 1.0

    OpenOffice.org 1.0 available now, is the result of 18 months of collaboration between Sun developers and more than 10,000 volunteer developers.

  • Coalition of the unwilling

    The IT industry's best kept secret is out -- SAP is still up for grabs despite spurning its first suitor, Microsoft.

  • Fighting Office with open source

    Michael Meeks is a distinguished engineer at Novell. But his current project may be his toughest yet. He is in charge of tackling interoperability between Novell's OpenOffice.org productivity suite and Microsoft Office. And as with anything relating to Microsoft, this involves more than just technology.

  • Linux upstart pushes into China

    German Linux start-up Tuxia has cut a deal to bring the company into the expanding and potentially gigantic Chinese market for Internet appliances.

  • OpenOffice for OS X faces uphill battle

    As Apple prepares a coming-out party for Mac OS X at Macworld, a loose band of developers is struggling to port the OpenOffice suite to the OS.

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  • Coalition of the unwilling

    The IT industry's best kept secret is out -- SAP is still up for grabs despite spurning its first suitor, Microsoft.

  • Fighting Office with open source

    Michael Meeks is a distinguished engineer at Novell. But his current project may be his toughest yet. He is in charge of tackling interoperability between Novell's OpenOffice.org productivity suite and Microsoft Office. And as with anything relating to Microsoft, this involves more than just technology.

  • SAP reaches out to the community

    The market-leading maker of business applications is turning to smaller firms and Web services to expand its software portfolio.

  • Why one Norwegian city switched to Linux

    Find out why Bergen, Norway's second-largest city, is moving its servers to Linux.

  • Red Hat aims desktop Linux at Microsoft

    Linux seller Red Hat has announced its first version of the open-source operating system for desktop computers, taking direct aim at Microsoft. Additional reading: Open Source Resource Centre

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Reviews (3)

  • Microsoft Word: How you can live without it

    Commentary: Yes, you do have alternatives. But the differences between WordPerfect, OpenOffice.org's Writer, and MS Word are very minor. Let me explain why you might--or might not--want to switch.

  • Free OpenOffice picks up from StarOffice

    OpenOffice.org developers have put the finishing touches on their productivity suite, which provides users and businesses with an alternative to Microsoft's Office suite.

  • SuSE 8.0 arrives without StarOffice

    The German Linux distributor has built many new features into its latest software, but has left out StarOffice 6.0 because of new licensing terms from Sun.

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