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- OpenOffice.org Meets Charity's Needs - And Makes for Good Business Too
- Migrant Helpline is a charity which helps newly arrived asylum seekers access support, and assists refugees to settle into the UK. Like all charities, it has to get the best value possible from the funding it receives. In its search for better value, its IT department evaluated the open-source OpenOffice.org...
- Tags: Charity, OpenOffice.org, Migrant Helpline, OpenOffice, Open Source, Office Suites, Software
- Case studies
- OpenOffice.org 1 Software Meets Finance Company's Needs for Microsoft Office Compatibility and Cuts Costs
- "FinCorp" is a small but geographically dispersed company, with approximately twenty employees working in six offices in three continents with five working languages. The complete IT had been outsourced. An audit of the existing IT showed that a significant part of IT costs was spent on licenses. At the same...
- Tags: Open Source, Information Technology, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Finance, OpenOffice.org, OpenOffice, Strategy, Office Suites, Software, Management
- Case studies
- OpenOffice.org (Intel) (dmg)
- This office productivity suite for Mac OS X includes desktop applications such as a word processor, a spreadsheet, a presentation manager, and a drawing program, with a user interface and feature set similar to that of other office suites. OpenOffice.org also works transparently with a variety of file formats, including...
- Tags: OpenOffice.org, Intel Corp., OpenOffice, Office Suites, Software
- Software downloads 2008-05-15
- OpenOffice.org (exe)
- OpenOffice.org is both an open-source product and a project. The product is a multiplatform office productivity suite. It includes desktop applications such as a word processor, a spreadsheet program, a presentation manager, and a drawing program, with a user interface and feature set similar to those of other office suites....
- Tags: Open Source, OpenOffice.org, OpenOffice, Office Suites, Software
- Software downloads 2008-05-07
- OpenOffice.org (dmg)
- OpenOffice.org is both an open-source product and a project. The product is a multiplatform office productivity suite. It includes desktop applications such as a word processor, a spreadsheet program, a presentation manager, and a drawing program, with a user interface and feature set similar to those of other office suites....
- Tags: Open Source, OpenOffice.org, OpenOffice, Office Suites, Software
- Software downloads 2008-05-07
- OxygenOffice Professional (exe)
- OxygenOffice Professional is a free and open source enhancement of official OpenOffice.org. The OxygenOffice Professional team has modified the source of OpenOffice.org and bundled lot of extras with it. More than 3400 graphics are included, both clip art and photos. Several templates and sample documents are included, as well as...
- Tags: OpenOffice.org, OxygenOffice Professional Community, OxygenOffice Professional, OxygenOffice Professional Team, OpenOffice, Open Source, Office Suites, Software
- Software downloads 2008-05-04
- OpenOffice.org (Windows) (exe)
- OpenOffice.org is both an open-source product and a project. The product is a multiplatform office productivity suite. It includes desktop applications such as a word processor, a spreadsheet program, a presentation manager, and a drawing program, with a user interface and feature set similar to those of other office suites....
- Tags: Open Source, Microsoft Windows, OpenOffice.org, OpenOffice, Office Suites, Software
- Software downloads 2008-04-01
- JODConverter (zip)
- JODConverter Java OpenDocument Converter leverages OpenOffice.org, which provides arguably the best import/export filters for OpenDocument and Microsoft Office formats available today. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: OpenOffice.org, OpenDocument Format, Mirko Nasato, OpenDocument Format (ODF), OpenOffice, Emerging Technologies, Office Suites, Software
- Software downloads 2008-01-04
- OpenOffice.org Portable (exe)
- OpenOffice.org Portable (formerly Portable OpenOffice.org) is the complete OpenOffice.org office suite, including a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation tool, drawing package, and database - packaged as a portable app, so you can take all your documents and everything you need to work with them wherever you go. This full-featured office suite...
- Tags: OpenOffice.org, PortableApps.com, Office Suite, OpenOffice, Office Suites, Software
- Software downloads 2007-08-12
- IBM joins OpenOffice.org community
- IBM will be joining the OpenOffice.org community in a move that will see Big Blue making code contributions and also leveraging some of the OpenOffice technologies in its products. A quote from the press release at OpenOffice.org: "We look forward to working...
- Tags: OpenOffice.org, IBM Corp., OpenOffice, Office Suites, Software, Arun Radhakrishnan
- Blog posts 2007-09-10
- Ease of use: But for who?
- Over the weekend I was writing an article for TechRepublic about two alternative Linux word processors (Abiword and KWord.) As I was writing this article, I discovered something that might lend a hand to not only the developers of those tools but to Linux developers in general. This discovery is...
- Tags: Developer, Ease Of Use, Word-processor, OpenOffice.org, Tool, Wikipedia, Linux, Productivity, OpenOffice, Word Processors, Wiki, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Office Suites, Online Communications, Jack Wallen
- Blog posts 2007-10-01
- Performing common Word tasks in OpenOffice.org 2.0's Writer
- Switching from one word processor can mean learning a whole new set of commands and ways of doing things. The creators of OpenOffice tried hard to make Writer work and act just like Microsoft Word. Greg Shultz shows how it works. by Greg Shultz
- Tags: screenshots, TechRepublic Inc., OpenOffice.org, OpenOffice, Word Processors, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Greg Shultz
- Image galleries 2007-09-19
- Performing common Excel tasks in OpenOffice.org 2.0's Calc
- Calc serves as the spreadsheet component of OpenOffice. If you're a long-time Excel user, you may be wary of doing things in Calc. Greg Shultz shows how to perform common Excel tasks inside this open source alternative. by Greg Shultz
- Tags: screenshots, TechRepublic Inc., OpenOffice.org, Microsoft Excel, Calc, Greg Shultz
- Image galleries 2007-09-18
- Taking a closer look at OpenOffice.org 2.0
- Why all the open suites don' have an equivalent of OutlookHow long do we have to wait for an equivalent of outlook in open office 2.0RE: Taking a closer look at OpenOffice.org 2.0I am impressed. Being as though my main freelance function is automation solutions for all types of...
- Tags: OpenOffice, Microsoft Outlook, E-mail, jbenacerraf@..., OpenOffice.org 2.0, OpenOffice.org
- Discussion threads 2007-09-11
- IBM joins OpenOffice.org community
- I know alot of people that flat out can't afford officeAnd thats what they get is open office. There is no document they can't view, so why not?I don't think consumers really give a yuk what they use, as long as it allows them to see every document mom/dad/sister/brother...
- Tags: Benny Van
- Discussion threads 2007-09-10
- Microsoft: Royalties or royal pain?
- In the most recent battle between open-source and proprietary software, Microsoft goes for the jugular by claiming that free and open-source software violates 235 of its patents. See the article from CNET Networks' News.com: "Report: Microsoft says open source violates 235 patents." Here's an excerpt from the article: "In...
- Tags: Patent, Microsoft Corp., OpenOffice.org, Open Source, Sonja Thompson
- Blog posts 2007-05-14
- Debrief and Defend: Choosing OpenOffice.org over Microsoft Office 2007
- Your company provides productivity office software to create documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. This software can be expensive to license, so it is important to keep track of alternatives that may be as well suited to the business. If you're considering upgrading your office suite, you have two major options: Microsoft...
- Tags: Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Corp., OpenOffice.org, OpenOffice, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software
- Download resources 2007-04-27
- Debrief and Defend: Microsoft Office 2007 vs. OpenOffice.org
- Your company provides productivity office software to create documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. This software can be expensive, so it is important for the company to make the best decision possible. If you're thinking of upgrading or changing office suites, two products are the top contenders: Microsoft Office 2007 and OpenOffice.org...
- Tags: Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Corp., OpenOffice.org, OpenOffice, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software
- Download resources 2007-04-24
- OpenOffice Writer Password Recovery (exe)
- OpenOffice Writer Password Recovery lets users recover a lost or forgotten password to a protected document that has been created in OpenOffice.org Writer. It can remove all types of document protection, such as document ReadOnly protection, revision marking protection, protection of sections in OpenOffice.org Writer, protection of cells in OpenOffice.org...
- Tags: Protection, Password, Recovery, OpenOffice.org, OpenOffice, Office Suites, Software
- Software downloads 2007-04-10
- Performing common Access tasks in OpenOffice.org 2.0's Base
- If you want to put together an adhoc database to track information in your organization, you may not want to shell out the money necessary to buy a copy of Microsoft Access or upgrade your copy of Microsoft Office to include Access. That's where OpenOffice 2.0's Base comes in. Greg...
- Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Database, Microsoft Access, OpenOffice.org, Greg Shultz, screenshots, OpenOffice, Databases, Microsoft Office, Storage, Office Suites, Software, Enterprise Software, Data Management, Hardware
- Image galleries 2007-05-18
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