Platform Vision OpenOffice Report

News/Articles

Overall, working with the new WordPerfect Office X5 suite has been a good experience, punctuated with periodic intense aggravation

April 13, 2010 –

– If the bottom line on WordPerfect Office were the price then, at $159.99 for the upgrade and $249.99 for the full version, it would be a winner compared to Microsoft Office. But there’s more to these programs than price. (eweek.com)

Announcements

Red Flag Releases Free Open Source Linux with Openoffice

Red Flag provides April 19 open source Linux Desktop 6.0 SP3 with Openoffice and Linux firewall for free download. The installation and setup are easy. (suite101.com)

Create Talking Books with Odt2daisy for OpenOffice.org

April 26, 2010

Odt2daisy is an OpenOffice.org Writer extension, enabling to export in DAISY 3 format, including support of Mathematical content conforming to the MathML standard. DAISY is an NISO Z39.86 standard for blind, visual impaired, print-disabled, and learning-disabled people.(softpedia.com)

Can OpenOffice escape from under a cloud?

June 1, 2010 –

IBM has been making good progress on features with Symphony and Oracle is positioning Open Office for the web, desktop and mobile – a first. But barriers to Open Office and Web-based tools persist, and not just on a feature/function basis. (forrester.com)

Free and cheap alternatives to Microsoft Word

April 22, 2010 –

“OpenOffice is a full productivity suite including word processing, spreadsheets, database and a drawing program. These are all the same components of Microsoft Office, except instead are free of charge. It does not include e-mail, but can be merged with an account.”(thedailyaztec.com)

8 Advanced OpenOffice.org Add-on

April 5, 2010 –

In OOo, all you get is two presentation templates, an assortment of presentation templates, and a few wizards to help make letters, faxes, and agendas--the bare minimum. Then on a different menu (File > New), you'll find shortcuts to work with labels and business cards.(linuxplanet.com)

Why Making Money from Free Software Matters

April 26, 2010 –

Free software began as a political movement: its central aim was – and remains – the propagation of freedom. Later, it became a development methodology too, largely at the hands of Linus, whose geographical isolation in Finland forced him to develop ways of using the Internet to coordinate a new kind of massive, but decentralized, global collaboration. (h-online.com)

Blogs, Events and Communities

Understanding Oracle's ODF Plug-in Pricing: What it Means for OpenOffice.org

April 27, 2010 –

The ODF plugin was developed to allow Microsoft Office users to exchange documents with OpenOffice.org users. It works for spreadsheets, presentations, and word processing docs and Sun gave it away for years. So why has Oracle so suddenly decided to charge for it?(ostatic.com)

OpenOffice.org Conference 2010 Call for Papers

April 28, 2010 –

The OpenOffice.org Confererence (OOoCon) 2010 is running its call for papers until June 2 for the conference at the end of August in Budapest, Hungary. (linux-magazine.com)

Letting Go Is Hard to Do for Big Firms in Open Source Communities

April 4, 2010 –

In this blog, I’ve often commented on this topic, such as Nokia’s tight control over the Maemo community and Google’s over Android. That this keeps coming up over and over again suggests that it’s an inherent problem.(seekingalpha.com)

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