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Happy 3rd Birthday To OpenOffice.org
Milo Fungus writes "OpenOffice.org is three years old today. The birthday page links to interviews and information about OpenOffice.org's push to schools, which is led by Ian Lynch of the Marketing Project. As a happy and satisfied user, I say 'Happy Birthday' with vigor and gusto." Gift idea: give a copy of OpenOffice.org to your boss tomorrow.
It's nice to have a realistic alternative to MS Office. I've tried many OSS Office Alternatives, and this is by far the best of them all. Happy Birthday!
And why did you staple the trout to the RAM?
Time for you to start coding dude!
Happy Birthday OO! You rock!
Three cheers to SUN for being one of the few companies to "get" Free Software licensing. I think it was the then CEO, at a gnome confernce:
"I have three letters to describe our licensing scheme: G - P - L!" [to much applause]
Here's the original announcment.
Ciaran O'Riordan
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True but the latest release loads allot quicker, still makes me want to hit something though :( Apart from that its excellent, I dont even bother using pirate MS Office anymore!
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We switched our law practice to Linux (Suse) almost a year ago. Critical to that was OpenOffice. If you want a testimonial from a group of power users of OpenOffice try lawyers.
The computers now work all the time; they don't crash and our core business is being done without interruptions from computer problems.
MS doesn't seem to understand that this is the minimum standard that must be met before looking at extra "features". After 6 months it was not even the remotest thought from anyone in the office to go back to MS.
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1331169,00.as p
"Addressing several thousand attendees at the Worldwide Partner Conference, he took a swipe at Linux, open source and StarOffice, saying, "they simply accept the view that what they have is good enough. That view does not foster innovation. Being where we were with Office 1997 is not good enough for us," he said."
Microsoft admitting that OO is already equal to something they spent millions and millions on and also happens to be much more widely used than Office XP is the best thing they could have said.
I mean that. Office 97 is still very popular. One of the biggest challenges MS has is moving people off that since many businesses find that Office 97 is all they need. The fact they think OO has met the quality level that most of world thinks is "good enough" is excellent news.
Congrats to the OpenOffice.org team and thanks to Microsoft for the marketing material.
If you wanna get rich, you know that payback is a bitch
Yeah, we just started distributing Windows versions of two Thai OO.o derivatives and Mozilla Firebird on the CD we give out free for our Gimp classes. The response was pretty good.
Put identity in the browser.