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May 26th, 2010 
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Dana Blankenhorn notes that OpenOffice.org is “drifting,” which certainly seems to be true, although we’ve pointed out that it is definitely still kicking . Without a doubt, now that Oracle has swallowed up Sun Microsystems and is, by default, the new steward of the world’s most popular open source suite of productivity applications, there are questions to be asked about the future of OpenOffice
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Is OpenOffice Drifting Dangerously?
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Tags: blankenhorn, end-item, gooo, latest-evidence, microsoft, myths-debunked, OpenOffice, oracle, World 
No Comments » May 13th, 2010 Admin
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It’s been a while since we here at OStatic checked in on FLOSS Manuals , an ambitious effort to produce free, online documentation for open source software that we initially covered in this post . FLOSS Manuals is an excellent learning and reference resource for titles such as OpenOffice, Firefox, Audacity, Blender, Inkscape and more
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FLOSS Manuals Expands Its Open Source Documentation Effort
Posted in Open Source News Tags: campcaster, end-item, handbrake, images, Library, manuals, Media, myths-debunked, open-source, OpenOffice, source No Comments » May 13th, 2010 Admin
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Today, in a piece called ” Google-Microsoft rivalry comes down to clouds or software ,” ZDNet’s Dana Blankenhorn considers the specific advantages that Google and Microsoft have relative to each other.
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Are Google’s Productivity Apps Really Competitive With Microsoft’s?
Posted in Open Source News Tags: Applications, blankenhorn, cloud, Data, microsoft, microsoft-excel, myths-debunked, office, Open, open-source, OpenOffice, productivity, source No Comments » May 12th, 2010 Admin |
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Can businesses and organizations paying for expensive licenses for proprietary software successfully switch to free, open source alternatives? If you ask many IT managers about that, they’ll cite two common reasons why the answer is no, including “lack of adequate support” and “insufficient documentation.” Or, as discussed in this post , inexplicable bugs in open source software can outrule the switch.
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Myths Debunked: Why It Isn’t So Tough To Switch To Open Source
Posted in Open Source News Tags: becomes-clear, debunking-myth, documentation, end-item, microsoft, office, open-source, OpenOffice, summer, Support, trends, windows, windows xp, zealand-school No Comments » May 5th, 2010 Admin 
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