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Open Office
Open Office is a popular office suite. As it is open source and available for free it is very attractive to institutions that want to save some money.
When I compiled the OpenOffice.org Strategic Marketing Plan for the Community back in 2004, I wrote on the back cover:
What do you do if you have a product that’s as good as anything on the market, but you want to give it away?
And what if your major competitor already has a virtual monopoly in the market, and spends between $5,000-$10,000 million per annum on advertising?
With cento milioni downloads this year, OpenOffice.org hasn’t done too...
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One of Santa's duties at our house is system administration, Ubuntu, XP, Vista, and OpenSolaris. Why doesn't the OpenOffice (version 3.1) spell checker work on the OpenSolaris PC? It turns out the dictionary was packaged wrong in OpenSolaris. This affects US English. I don't know if there are similar problems for other languages. See openoffice.org for the problem report and solution. It's an easy fix. In OpenOffice go into Tools -> Extension...
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From blogs.sun.com
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Everyone loves receiving presents, especially presents which are useful. Likewise, giving presents to others feels wonderful. An important part of the holidays is the spirit of giving. This is where OOo fits in: Not only is the OpenOffice.org office suite a great present to the world, but giving and receiving is also experienced in many more ways within the OpenOffice.org community. There are volunteers working in numerous project groups...
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The next step in the OpenOffice.org 3 series is coming closer: OpenOffice.org 3.2.0 Release Candidate 1 is now available on the download website.
If you find severe issues within this build please file them to OpenOffice.org's bug tracking system IssueTracker:
Download website:http://download.openoffice.org/all_rc.html
Release notes: http://development.openoffice.org/releases/3.2.0rc1.html
MD5 checksums:http://download.openoffice...
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From blogs.sun.com
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I’m happy to announce OpenOffice.org 3.2 rc1 packages for openSUSE. They are available in the Build Service OpenOffice:org:UNSTABLE project and include many upstream and Go-oo fixes. See also overview of integrated features and enhancements. Please, look for more details about the openSUSE OOo build on the wiki page.
The packages are release candidates. Though, they have not passed the full QA test and might still include even serious bugs...
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- OpenOffice.org 3.2.0 RC1 (feedburner.com)
- OpenOffice.org 3.2.0 RC1: Great alternative to MS Office (blogsearch.google.com)

