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Would a rose by any other name still smell as sweet? Or would it, perhaps, end up sweeter? That, essentially, is the question at the heart of the forking process, which in turn is at the heart of a key situation today. "LibreOffice has demonstrated that it ...
May 17, 2012 at 12:24 | Source: TechNewsWorld
It used to be that OpenOffice.org was the leading open source alternative to proprietary productivity suites like Microsoft Office, and it was included in pretty much all the major Linux distributions. Then Oracle bought Sun Microsystems, and OpenOffice ...
May 8, 2012 at 23:55 | Source: PC World
May 17, 2012, 12:58 PM — Now that Apache OpenOffice 3.4 has been released, IBM has begun to take formal steps to re-integrate its Lotus Symphony fork of OpenOffice.org back into the OpenOffice mainline. These steps officially mark the end of the five ...
May 17, 2012 at 17:03 | Source: IT World
While they weren't the most popular open-source projects around even when Sun controlled them, Oracle made a lot of developers angry by dumping OpenSolaris and allegedly neglecting OpenOffice.org. On the other side of that coin, the company managed to ...
May 27, 2012 at 19:50 | Source: SDTimes.com
"Even before it was forked, how many Linux users were going to download it direct from openoffice.org instead of getting it direct from the software repository for their distribution of choice?" asked user houseofzeus. That said, many others argued that ...
May 25, 2012 at 16:11 | Source: IDG NEWS
Both OpenOffice.org 3.3 and the beta versions of 3.4 are affected by all three flaws, which get patched with Apache OpenOffice 3.4.0, the first release of the software under new management after Oracle handed over the project last year. In related news ...
May 18, 2012 at 17:31 | Source: The Register
Sun Microsystems, the company behind the UNIX-based Solaris Operating System, the Java platform as well as OpenOffice.org, has announced that it is acquiring MySQL AB, the company behind the open source database application MySQL, for a reported US$1 ...
May 19, 2012 at 04:00 | Source: Mister-info.com
OpenOffice is available for Windows and Mac computers from OpenOffice.org). Even if you specifically configure Excel's YIELD function for four payments per year, the returned value cannot be used for an investment that pays quarterly dividends. For example ...
May 21, 2012 at 11:00 | Source: Seekingalpha.com
The corridors were filled with stands from organisations such as the Free Software Foundation Europe and the Free Knowledge Foundation, Debian, Ubuntu, OpenOffice.org, etc. Since FOSDEM brings many European open software developers to Brussels, it also ...
May 14, 2012 at 02:48 | Source: Mister-info.com
I realize that most local, state and federal government organizations in the United States don't use free office suites like OpenOffice.org or LibreOffice. Instead, they use commercial office suites like Microsoft Office, Corel WordPerfect or Lotus Notes ...
May 15, 2012 at 18:39 | Source: Sun Advocate