SourceForge is the largest repository of open-source projects on the planet. The results are in from their 2008 Community Choice Awards: SourceForge.net is proud to present the winners from our 2008 Community Choice Awards. Best Project » OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org Best Project for the Enterprise » OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org Best Project for Educators » OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org See [...]

I wonder if they teach this essential piece of user support information on Microsoft Professional Support courses? I promise you, this is one problem users of OpenOffice.org will never have to worry about

One rendition of Wirth’s law states that “software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster”. Judge for yourself with some interesting benchmarks for OpenOffice.org and Microsoft Word. I’m not a benchmarking expert. As an end user, my only comment on this is that I run OOo (currently 3.0beta2) on a daily basis on a diminitive [...]

When we kicked off the Call for Papers for the OpenOffice.org Annual Conference, the local conference organisers started to panic when no papers were submitted for the first few weeks. Having been through this before many times, I assured them all would be well, and of course it was. We had the usual flood of [...]

The ever-watchful Alexandro spotted the following job advert from a large software company in Redmond, WA, USA: The Breadth Team is seeking a talented Marketing Manager to help drive our competitive efforts within the SMS&P-SMB and with other field teams, segment teams and product groups across Microsoft. Our passion is helping our field and partners [...]

And another from today’s mail: Dear Project Leaders, My son gave me and my husband a rebuilt computer and he had OpenOffice software installed on it. I, of course, preferred Microsoft because I was familiar with it. But I thought … IT’S A FREE COMPUTER DONATED BY MY CHILD. Don’t look a gift-horse in the [...]

Today’s testimonial is from a school in the Philippines: Hello, John, Shifting to OpenOffice.org and Ubuntu saved us more than a bundle, thus giving us the opportunity to provide our students with more, and better computers. And for a “third world” country like ours, OOo is “heaven sent.” Just today, I finished setting up 40 [...]