Being open-minded

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 […]

Written by cdriga on April 9th, 2006 with no comments.
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Portable OpenOffice.org 2.0.2

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 […]

Written by cdriga on April 8th, 2006 with no comments.
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First ECDL certification in Romania using 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 […]

Written by cdriga on December 2nd, 2005 with no comments.
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Open standards for office documents

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 […]

Written by cdriga on November 28th, 2005 with no comments.
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kFacts (and figures)

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 […]

Written by cdriga on October 29th, 2005 with no comments.
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OpenOffice.org 2.0 - freedom reloaded

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 […]

Written by cdriga on October 20th, 2005 with no comments.
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Community

In April 2002 I discovered in a computer magazine an article describing an office suite application which was free and had all the main components we needed in our daily work in my newly created company. We were having a tough start on a market already full of competitors and we needed solutions to cut […]

Written by cdriga on October 14th, 2005 with no comments.
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OpenOffice.org Conference 2005

OpenOffice.org Conference 2005 (oocon) has gathered in the beautiful city of Koper - Capodistria, in Slovenia, hundreds of community members, developers and enthusiasts, together with companies which either support the development of this free office suite or which are interested in watching closely the community’s development.
Thanks to the Slovenian and Italian communities which have done […]

Written by cdriga on October 4th, 2005 with no comments.
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OOo Art Project

OOo Art Project
This is a relatively new Marketing sub-project which aims to take care of the graphics art needed by the OpenOffice.org project. One of the most interesting actions lately is the design of a new plash-screen for version 2.0 of OpenOffice.org.
We are simply overwhelmed by the response from the graphical artists and by the […]

Written by cdriga on December 14th, 2004 with no comments.
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Freedom

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Written by cdriga on June 13th, 2004 with no comments.
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