Monthly Archives: January 2008
Firefox took large share off Internet Explorer in 2007
| January 29, 2008 | Posted by cdriga under OPEN SOURCE WORLD |
ITwire brings up the latest figures from French based Internet traffic analyst XiTiMonitor showing that during 2007 Internet Explorer has lost a significant market share in favor of the open source browser Mozilla Firefox. This is great news and it completes the image of an Open Source 2007 year. You can read the whole article…
OpenOffice.org Marketing Blog
| January 29, 2008 | Posted by cdriga under OPEN SOURCE WORLD |
The last two weeks have seen two new communication channels opened by OpenOffice.org the project. First of them is the OpenOffice.org Marketing Project’s Blog, which aims at sharing news and stories related to OpenOffice.org software and community promotion, and the second one is the OpenOffice.org Marketing Planet, the page that aggregates posts from the personal…
Blog-post of the week: Thank you OpenOffice.org
| January 29, 2008 | Posted by cdriga under OpenOffice.org |
Two days ago I discovered an inspiring blog posting on OpenOffice.org which deserves mentioning as it seems to me genuinely true and sincere. This blog (The Kratzers) has a post dated January 27th 2008 titled: Thank You, OpenOffice. The author – a satisfied Microsoft Office user – expresses his pleasant surprise about OpenOffice.org. He outlines…
Sun Microsystems buys MySQL.
| January 17, 2008 | Posted by cdriga under OPEN SOURCE WORLD |
Well, not long ago, a friend of mine complained that MySQL, the database he is using in his programming, started making changes in their licensing schemes and he was afraid that at some point it will not be free anymore. Today I brought this news to my friend and I surely made him happy: MySQL…






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