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A rivalry emerges as Apache asserts OpenOffice plans

Posted December 21, 2011 - 2:17 pm

There's been much uncertainty surrounding OpenOffice.org ever since Oracle decided back in June to donate the open source office productivity project to the Apache Software Foundation.
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Oracle Magnanimous: Open Office to be purely open source

Posted April 19, 2011 - 12:28 pm

Oracle has discovered it can't profit much from commercializing OpenOffice, so it will generously return to the promises it made to keep OpenOffice open source.
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Oracle puts OpenOffice in the cloud, but not for nothing

Posted December 15, 2010 - 6:07 pm

Oracle announced it is making a version of OpenOffice available through the cloud, but appears to be offering only paid versions of the open-source suite.
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Symphony 3.0 beta signals IBM attack on Microsoft Office

Posted February 5, 2010 - 9:25 pm

IBM/Lotus took another stab at Microsoft Office, releasing a beta 2 version of Symphony 3.0, its free suite of productivity applications.
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How To Print Pages In Order with Ink Jet Printers

Posted December 23, 2009 - 12:18 pm

Pages printed on laser printers come out face down, so when you pick up the pile, the pages are in the correct order. Ink jet printers, however, print pages face up (the paper goes under the ink cartridges) so page number one is on the bottom, page two is next, and so on, meaning page 12 is on top of the stack.
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Review

OpenOffice.org 3

Posted December 17, 2008 - 6:47 pm

OpenOffice.org is a powerful productivity suite--including tools for word processing, spreadsheets, slideshows and more--with one major additional feature: it's free.
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Study: OpenOffice five times more popular than Google Docs

Posted November 16, 2008 - 9:04 pm

Confirming recent comments by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, an independent study released Friday found OpenOffice.org's free office suite to be five times more popular among adult U.S. internet users than Google Docs.
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Can the New Ubuntu Save You Money?

Posted October 27, 2008 - 12:01 pm

If you're a fan of desktop Linux distributions, as I am, you're probably waiting for Ubuntu 8.10 to be released on Thursday, October 30th. This blog entry is being written on a Ubuntu desktop, as is 90 percent of all the work I have done for the last two years.
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