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Oct 25, 2005
OpenOffice 2.0 Has Its Eye on Microsoft
OpenOffice.org has officially rolled out the second version of its open-source productivity suite, and its backers are hoping that new features and support from government agencies will give the application the boost it needs to take on Microsoft Office (Nasdaq: MSFT - news)....Read more: read more...
OpenOffice Packs a Powerful New Database Punch
OpenOffice.org's latest update includes a database that matches Microsoft's popular and competing Access database, experts say. "It's definitely a big deal," said Stephen O'Grady, an analyst at the IT analysis firm RedMonk. "Now with the [OpenOffice.org Base], although I have not evaluated it to the extent that I can call it 100 percent at functional parity with Access, the interface is just as usable as Access. It's quite nice."... read more...
Open-Source-Community heißt Microsoft willkommen - Neue Shared-Source-Lizenzen stoßen auf positives Echo
Mit Wohlwollen reagierte die Free Software Foundation Europe auf die von Microsoft gestern vorgestellten neuen Shared-Source-Lizenzen. Zwei der fünf Lizenzen entsprechen nach Ansicht von FSFE-Präsident Georg Greve der Free Software Definition... read more...
03: MS Office lernt OpenDocument - Freies OpenDocument-Plug-In für MS Office angekündigt
Microsoft unterstützt das freie Office-Format OpenDocument in seiner Office-Suite bislang nicht, doch das will die australische Gruppe "Open Source Victoria" zusammen mit dem Softwarehersteller Phase N ändern. Gemeinsam will man ein Plug-In entwickeln, durch das Microsofts Office-Suite lernt, mit OpenDocument umzugehen... read more...
Microsoft mit eigenen "Open-Source-Lizenzen"? - Neue Shared-Source-Lizenzen zeigen Open-Source-Eigenschaften
Mit seiner Shared-Source-Strategie reagierte Microsoft einst auf die wachsende Popularität von Open Source und gewährte zumindest einen Einblick in den eigenen Quellcode. Jetzt veröffentlicht das Unternehmen neue Shared-Source-Lizenzen, die zum Teil typische Eigenschaften von Open-Source-Lizenzen aufweisen... read more...
Open Source and politics ride the same bus
A recent bus trip and tour of Oregon State University's Open Source Lab (OSL), and its cavernous collection of "the most important racks in open source," had political and technological progressives sitting side by side... read more...
GOSCON debates open source RFPs
Attendees of the first ever Government Open Source Conference (GOSCON) in Portland, Ore., last week heard about how the thinking and approach of government agencies must change to gain the cost-savings and other advantages of open source software. The event, which drew more than 200 open source business people, government officials, and consultants, also featured debate on whether open source software communities and businesses, too, must change their thinking and approach to gain the benefits of government business... read more...
OpenOffice.org 2.0 released
The OpenOffice.org (OOo) Project released the long-awaited OOo 2.0 suite yesterday, completing a testing process that lasted more than a year. Planned improvements for OOo version 2.0 were laid out for developers in mid-2003, including a new interface, the new database module, enhanced PDF support, and other "small things" to put the office suite on par with similar software, said Louis Suárez-Potts, the OOo community manager... read more...
Rectron: Open source the next big desktop thing
Zandre Rudolph, business manager at IT distributor Rectron, says open source software is now ready for commercial use at desktop level, due to publicity over the last year thanks to the work of the likes of the Go Open Source campaign. Rudolph says this has resulted in an increase in the adoption of open source software by South African businesses... read more...
Africa needs free software, not slick marketing talk
Earlier this week Microsoft's Nigerian representatives claimed that even if Africans were given open source software they wouldn't know what to do with it. In an article published by ZDNet the company's representatives said Africans lacked the "expertise" to use open source software.... read more...
Firefox Hits Download Milestone
The Mozilla Corp. announced Thursday that its no-cost, open-source Web browser, Firefox, had reached the 100 million download mark, hitting that milestone less than one year after the software was first introduced.... read more...
