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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.

  • OpenOffice.org takes on Microsoft Office

    The OpenOffice.org office suite has come a long way since its inception--so much so that it's now a viable alternative to Microsoft Office. See how this open source application fares against the Goliath Microsoft Office suite.

  • Sun to help create native OpenOffice for Mac OS X

    Mac users waiting for a native version of OpenOffice might see it sooner than they might have thought, now that Sun has thrown its support behind the project.

  • CeBIT: OpenOffice + Linux = Mac

    National ICT Australia's Professor Gernot Heiser had some blunt words for the OpenOffice community -- the product isn't ready to compete with the big boys.

  • OpenOffice gets business intelligence boost

    Business intelligence software from Pentaho is to be integrated into the next version of OpenOffice, the open-source application suite.

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  • OpenOffice.org takes on Microsoft Office

    The OpenOffice.org office suite has come a long way since its inception--so much so that it's now a viable alternative to Microsoft Office. See how this open source application fares against the Goliath Microsoft Office suite.

  • Office politics: Microsoft Office XP vs Sun StarOffice 6

    Sun would like to think it can succeed where others have failed­â€"in breaking Microsoft's stranglehold on the office productivity marketâ€"by offering a product that's almost as good as Microsoft Office at a much lower price. Do the sums add up?

  • Six office suites reviewed

    Developers of alternative office software need to place more emphasis on ease of conversion if they ever wish to dethrone Microsoft. We test six office suites in the market.

  • Exchange targeted by open-source group

    OpenGroupware.org has been launched with plans to create applications that compete with Microsoft Exchange server products.

  • Free OpenOffice for Mac users

    Sun Microsystems has released the first beta of OpenOffice, the open-source sibling of its StarOffice package, for Mac OS X computers.

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  • Upgrade to OpenOffice.org 2.0

    OpenOffice.org is the freely available and freely developed successor to Sun's StarOffice and is a full office suite available for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X.

  • OpenOffice.org takes on Microsoft Office

    The OpenOffice.org office suite has come a long way since its inception--so much so that it's now a viable alternative to Microsoft Office. See how this open source application fares against the Goliath Microsoft Office suite.

  • OpenOffice ready for world tour

    The organization behind OpenOffice on Wednesday released a trial version of one of the first major updates to the free open-source office software. A beta release of version 1.1 of OpenOffice is available now from OpenOffice.org.

  • OpenOffice gets programming kit

    The OpenOffice.org group announces a kit that lets programmers build new modules for open-source alternatives to the Microsoft Office suite.

  • Sun working on StarOffice update

    Sun Microsystems is set to offer a test release of a new version of the software package, one of the company's most visible efforts to erode Microsoft's dominance over PC computing.

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