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StarOffice 8 is an affordable office productivity suite that can read, edit and save Microsoft Office files. It contains full-featured applications, including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, graphics and database capabilities. StarOffice 8 is available in many languages and it offers flexibility for your home or office by running on multiple...

Tags: JSP, StarOffice 8, StarOffice, Office Suites, Software

Software downloads 2007-08-29

Is Eric Schmidt still the grownup Google needs?

Is Eric Schmidt still the grownup Google needs?Impact of Partnership is with StarOffice and Projity knocking OfficeThe most useful outcome of this partnership will clearly be less directly financial gain and more on influence. Microsoft's strength due to the monopoly with Office is undeniable. I have been using two beta's...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Nigel, StarOffice 8, Eric Schmidt, blog search, Google Inc., Projity, StarOffice, open source, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2005-10-05

Addition by subtraction for Google and Sun

Addition by subtraction for Google and SunHow does Google make money from this?You're a Google shareholder. You bought late, so you know how much of your money can be lost if Google's price deflates. You're waiting to see how the company will increase its search ad business so...

Tags: Sun Solaris, Linux, Business structures, Operating systems, UNIX, Servers, StarOffice 8, Google Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., Projity, Microsoft Corp., StarOffice

Discussion threads 2005-10-04

Additional Resources

Open Office sweeps Sourceforge awards

Open Office sweeps Sourceforge awardsRE:Open Office sweeps Sourceforge awards"their motivation is to take money out of the system,..."is this a good thing?Hmmm...kinda wrong..."...their motivation is to take money out of the system, to take down the old Microsoft monopoly. They lack compelling business models of their own."If the only biz...

Tags: Leadership, Web browsers, OpenOffice, motivation, old-Microsoft monopoly, old-Microsoft, Microsoft Corp., SourceForge

Discussion threads 2008-07-25

Do we need two open source office suites?

Do we need two open source office suites?That Made Me Scratch My Head, TooMethinks Dana needs to go back and double-check his sources. And, by the way, StarOffice's roots actually go back much further than that: Star Division's StarWriter was first developed back in the mid-80's for CP/M. ...

Tags: OpenOffice, Linux, Word processors, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, open-source office suite, Symphony, StarOffice, Novell Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-06-05

Can open source help liberate the bureaucracy?

Britain's national plan to bring order and interoperability to the patient records and operations of the national health service was going to cost about £1.2bn and be an enormous business and political success by early 1998. Ten years later it's widely expected to be a continuing £13bn pound...

Tags: Agency, Health Care, Bureaucracy, StarOffice, Open Source, Advertising & Promotion, Office Suites, Software, Marketing, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-06-05

So what do teachers really want in a computer?

So what do teachers really want in a computer?Office...with the Linux and Windows systems it would probably be best to go with OpenOffice, as it can open .docx, odf, alongside .doc, and the Macs should have at least Neo/OpenOffice for odf and possibly iWork if the teacher requests it.following that,...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, computer, Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, Linux

Discussion threads 2008-05-27

First look at OpenOffice.org 3.0 beta

First look at OpenOffice.org 3.0 betaOLD NEWS: Don't expect OpenOffice to develop more perfect compatibilityI gave up on OpenOffice a long long time ago and I'm not surprised that the compatibility is still pitiful. OpenOffice's Presentation could never handle PowerPoint files properly. OpenOffice's Writer could handle simple documents,...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, OpenOffice.org, OpenOffice, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-05-09

Buy techies with trust and freedom, not dollars

Rewarding techies This is the 12th excerpt from the first book in the Defen series: The Board Member's IT Brief. The biggest problem you will face in hiring a good CIO is that, in systems, failure succeeds and success fails. In IT:...

Tags: Job, CIO, Information Technology, Finance, Help Desk, Call Centers, Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, It Operations, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-04-04

Ubuntu's Shuttleworth blames ISO for OOXML's win

Ubuntu's Shuttleworth blames ISO for OOXML's winBut of course he doesThat is all he ever does, complain about everybody else.All very good points he is making. A sad day, but, not sure we have heardthe end of it yet. There are bound to be appeals, and the EU is already...

Tags: ISO standards, Process improvement, OOXML, ISO, Shuttleworth, Microsoft Corp., Ubuntu

Discussion threads 2008-04-01

'Scandal' over Norway's vote for OOXML

'Scandal' over Norway's vote for OOXMLOh Please!You know what, there are a million things more important than this format issue.At the end of the day, instead of asking or negotiating with MS to submit XLS and DOC to ISO, someone decided thata) Microsoft is evilb) Binary formats are badc) XML...

Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), OPEN SOURCE, OOXML, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format

Discussion threads 2008-03-31

When Lintel beats Wintel

Here's the full text of something by frequent contributor Anton Philidor during last week's discussion of various approaches to Lintel/Wintel TCO comparisons: "Linux is more expensive than Windows." You agreed. Quoting: By mid 2004, however, enough people...

Tags: Wintel, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Lintel, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-03-18

The U.S. voted no on Microsoft Office standard at ISO

The U.S. voted no on Microsoft Office standard at ISOHoly Spin, you must be dizzy![B]Those advocating greater sales of products other than Microsoft Office see this as their best opportunity to prevent the free market from operating as expected,[/B]There was no free market, this may well be the start of...

Tags: ISO standards, Process improvement, Microsoft Corp., ISO, free market, Microsoft Office

Discussion threads 2008-03-02

Microsoft gets another shot at Open XML standard

Microsoft gets another shot at Open XML standardOk..."...argue there is no need for a rival standard to the widely used Open Document Format ODF..."I don't know a single person who uses it.RE: Microsoft gets another shot at Open XML standardMicrosoft does not need a "standard" for companies to be able...

Tags: Open XML, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Gets, open standard

Discussion threads 2008-02-25

LiveStation: Another Microsoft Silverlight touch point

LiveStation: Another Microsoft Silverlight touch pointWhy?I mean there are what, a couple hundred ways to get video and music on a PC? Sounds like a solution looking for a problem.RE: LiveStation: Another Microsoft Silverlight touch pointdid you mean OEM or ISV Mary Jo?I did a video interview and demo...

Tags: Corporate communications, .NET, Application servers, Middleware, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., LiveStation

Discussion threads 2008-02-20

Yahoo's Jerry Yang is no Bill Gates

Yahoo's Jerry Yang is no Bill GatesI wouldn't disagree with anything that was saidBusiness is war and in war, life is harsh.Many of us would like to think that companies are in business for altruistic reasons and indeed many founders might have such thinking... but once a company becomes public,...

Tags: Operational accounting, Operating systems, TV network, Yahoo! Inc., Jerry Yang, Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-02-16

Expect+OpenXML+win+for+Microsoft+at+ISO

Expect+OpenXML+win+for+Microsoft+at+ISOMany standards are owned by someone.I don't undersand some people stand on this issue. When it comes to office automation, Microsoft is the dominant player. Yeah, we've got all Open Offices and Google apps and the like, but they are insignificant compared to Office. A standard that...

Tags: OOA/OOD/OOP, OPEN SOURCE, Adobe PDF, OOXML, Microsoft Corp., OpenOffice

Discussion threads 2008-02-11

Super+Friday+to+climax+Microsoft+Open+XML+push

Super+Friday+to+climax+Microsoft+Open+XML+pushMany standards are created by vendor consortia.Allows the vendors to coordinate and interoperate more effectively. That's a worthwhile goal.Having more than one standard can also be acceptable when a single standard saves neither money nor effort. Standards then have the purpose of providing necessary documentation.But of course an...

Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Blogging, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, Microsoft Office, ISO

Discussion threads 2008-02-05

U.S. open-source group opens chapter in Europe

U.S. open-source group opens chapter in EuropeOut-MS MS?Bad idea. Nobody plays cutthroat competition better than MS, as numerous former competitors have discovered over the years. Better to play your own game and skip the lock-in tricks; open source developers can't use them anyway.RE: U.S. open-source group opens chapter...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., open source

Discussion threads 2008-01-30

Microsoft makes last-gasp OOXML push

Microsoft makes last-gasp OOXML pushHmmmmInteresting load of bunk.Funny, they could not even give one example of something in a legacydocument that cannot be translated to ODF. Nor could they give even one example of something required for MS Office that can not be supported by ODF.Statements like this show they...

Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Microsoft Corp., OOXML, OpenDocument Format, Microsoft Office

Discussion threads 2008-01-29