Category: OpenOffice.org
Slashdot: Do OpenOffice Users Save In Microsoft Format?
| October 19, 2007 | Posted by cdriga under OPEN SOURCE WORLD, OpenOffice.org |
A company executive from Quickoffice claims that OpenOffice.org users mostly save their documents in .DOC (Microsoft Office) file formats. Slashdot is wondering, is this true ? The Slashdot article is located here. The question remains and would be a good one to include in the next OpenOffice.org user survey. I personally save in ODF, the…
Happy Birthday OpenOffice.org!
| October 13, 2007 | Posted by cdriga under OpenOffice.org |
PRESS RELEASE: OpenOffice.org community celebrates its 7th anniversary 104 million downloads of the open source productivity suite Today, the open source project OpenOffice.org celebrates its 7th birthday. Founded by Sun Microsystems on October 13th, 2000, continues to experience tremendous growth. The project recently counted 104 million downloads from its website, and downloads have been increasing…
Get Legal, Get OpenOffice.org – Campaign against software piracy
| May 3, 2006 | Posted by cdriga under Legalese, OpenOffice.org |
Press release One week after “World Intellectual Property Day”, the OpenOffice.org Marketing Project announces a new campaign: “Get legal – Get OpenOffice.org”. A new website – http://why.openoffice.org – explains how to escape from Microsoft Office licence costs and compliance worries – for good. Webmasters and bloggers worldwide are encouraged to display the campaign banner to…
Why open standards matter
| April 10, 2006 | Posted by cdriga under OPEN SOURCE WORLD, OpenOffice.org |
[...] He went on to show the audience, through another word picture describing a 1904 fire in Baltimore, how open standards can prevent unhealthy dependence on one vendor. “Firefighters were called in from all the surrounding states,” Wheeler said. “But all they could do was stand and watch the building burn, because their firehoses would…
Being open-minded
| April 9, 2006 | Posted by cdriga under OPEN SOURCE WORLD, OpenOffice.org |
This is what it takes to be able to truly evaluate other software solutions. The existing offer is great and the alternatives might be better than what you are currently using: operating systems, office suites, graphics applications, etc. You only need to open your mind when trying these applications in a few work sessions and…
Portable OpenOffice.org 2.0.2
| April 8, 2006 | Posted by cdriga under OpenOffice.org |
One of the greatest application hacks I’ve used a lot in the last month is the portable version of the OpenOffice.org office suite (includes Word Processor, Spreadsheet, Presentations, Database and Drawing applications and it’s totally free) which can be run from any USB pen-drive without the need to install it. I simply downloaded, unzipped and…
First ECDL certification in Romania using OpenOffice.org
| December 2, 2005 | Posted by cdriga under OpenOffice.org |
November 30th 2005: The Romanian national operator for ECDL announces that they have held the first ECDL Module 3 – Word Processing – examination using the OpenOffice.org office suite. This is a first time in Romania and it finally gives the ECDL certifications true vendor independence in this country and it also proves that the…
Open standards for office documents
| November 28, 2005 | Posted by cdriga under OPEN SOURCE WORLD, OpenOffice.org |
November 21st, 2005 – Microsoft Corporation has admitted for the first time that the public demand for open standards in office documents file format is huge. They also announced that they are going to submit their Office 12 XML file format for adoption as a standard. The news is great in the sense that they…
kFacts (and figures)
| October 29, 2005 | Posted by cdriga under OpenOffice.org |
The number of users who register a software application represents only a small fraction from the total number of people who download and install it. This is a fact. NOW the figures: There are more than 65K (65000) registrations of the OpenOffice.org free office suite gathered in 9 days since the new version 2.0 has…
OpenOffice.org 2.0 – freedom reloaded
| October 20, 2005 | Posted by cdriga under OpenOffice.org |
OpenOffice.org 2.0 Is Here 20 October, 2005 OpenOffice.org 2.0 is the productivity suite that individuals, governments, and corporations around the world have been expecting for the last two years. Easy to use and fluidly interoperable with every major office suite, OpenOffice.org 2.0 realises the potential of open source. Besides a powerful new database module and…
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