Whether your organization is a die-hard Microsoft shop or is looking for the first opportunity to ditch the Microsoft Windows operating systems and Office productivity suite – or anywhere in between – there is no good reason why someone in your organization should not be keeping an eye on the free and easily downloadable OpenOffice.org productivity suite. The OpenOffice.org offering OpenOffice.org software is a productivity suite that includes a word processor, along with a spreadsheet,...

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Last month, Sun Microsystems announced a new software offering called the Sun Java Desktop System (JDS), a bundle of enhanced open source software to compete with Microsoft’s dominant Windows operating system and Office productivity suite. Most of the business and technology media and analysts seemed unimpressed. Some even said that it was doomed because they considered the product to be a desktop for primarily running Java applications – understandable because of its name. But New...

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