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Starting with the 3.3 release — which is slated for the third quarter of this year — many of those features will start to trickle in

June 1, 2010 –

When the Microsoft Office suite moved to the “Ribbon interface,” most people had a lot of difficulty getting used to it. But as usual, everyone did get used to it. Now a lot of end users prefer the Ribbon interface to the standard interface. This has caused OpenOffice to seem outdated — even the latest release. This will change as the new Renaissance Interface arrives in the upcoming releases. (techrepublic.com)

Announcements

OpenOffice goes GStreamer on Linux and Unix

The OpenOffice.org Project developers have announced that future Linux and Unix versions of their open source office suite will use the popular GStreamer multimedia framework for audio and video content playback. (h-online.com)

OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta2 linux linux log log public beta

June 25, 2010 –

From the OpenOffice.org community, funded by the Sun Microsystem Inc. cross-platform open source office suite OpenOffice.org 3.0, recently launched a public beta version of the series of Beta2. (ll2t.cn)

5 Best Free Office 2010 Alternatives

For a few years Office had the market pretty much to itself, but there are now some strong alternatives available, and several of these are completely free to download and use. Some, like OpenOffice.Org and IBM's Symphony, are fully-featured Office alternatives with enough power for even the most demanding users. (trustedreviews.com)

OpenOffice 3.2.1 closes two vulnerabilities

June 7, 2010 –

“Following the recent release of version 3.2.1 of their open source office suite, the OpenOffice.org development team has published two security bulletins detailing the security issues that were closed in this first point update to the 3.2.x branch. ”(h-online.com)

June 21, 2010 –

The argument is not that the project is a failure, but that OpenOffice.org could be so much more, given a less top down approach to project management and a looser rein on developers' ability to get involved. (h-online.com)

Profiting from open source -- without selling out

June 28, 2010 –

There have been some notable successes: Sun paid $1 billion for MySQL, an eye-popping amount given that MySQL was celebrating raking in $50 million in revenue not too long before. Red Hat has a market cap of more than $6 billion (news.idg.no)

Blogs, Events and Communities

Inside OpenOffice 3.2

June 23, 2010 –

OpenOffice released version 3.2 of its eponymous software suite, which brings quite a few new features and improvements in speed, reliability, file format support and ease of use. It isn’t a total revolution, but another small evolution that should please existing users of the suite.(pcpro.co.uk)

7 Free, Open Source Tomes For Your Edification

June 16, 2010 –

In this post you'll find seven online books that you can get comfortable with quickly. They introduce essential concepts for getting started with Linux, Firefox, Blender (3D graphics and animation), GIMP (graphics), the OpenOffice suite of productivity applications, and more.(ostatic.com)

Twitter to open source MySQL-to-Hadoop tool

July 29, 2010 –

Twitter intends to open source an additional piece of the Hadoop-happy infrastructure it uses for internal data analysis. Known as Crane, this is a tool for moving data from MySQL into Hadoop, the open source data-crunching platform based on Google's proprietary infrastructure.(theregister.co.uk)

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