Suncorp's CIO, Jeff Smith, says he would like the banking and insurance giant to use open source software for its 20,000 desktops, which currently run Windows XP.
Adobe Systems expected on Monday in the US to detail plans to submit its Portable Document Format specifications to the International Organization for Standardization, a body of particular importance to governments and large corporations.
Red Hat has released Fedora Core 4, a free version of Linux the company is using to advance virtualisation, programming tools and other software at the frontier of open-source development.
Responding to pressure customers and governments, Microsoft has announced Office 2007 Service Pack 2 will add support for the Open Document Format (ODF), Portable Document Format (PDF), and XML Paper Specification (XPS).
Programmers released version 2 of OpenOffice.org on Thursday, a major overhaul to an open-source software suite that has recently become a more serious rival to Microsoft Office.
OpenOffice 2.4, which was released on Thursday, comes with an assortment of collaboratively engineered bug fixes and small, but significant, usability enhancements.
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A growing roster of de facto standards is testing the need for bureaucratic agencies and design-by-committee technologies.
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.
Apple has announced Mac OS X, the new Macintosh operating system which combines the openness of UNIX with the broad applications base of Macintosh.
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.
The company is releasing the new version of its WordPerfect office software, but analysts say it's unlikely to make much headway against Microsoft Office.
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