Plan-B for OpenOffice.org

Solveig writes a detailed introduction to the new features and functionality introduced in OpenOffice.org 2.3. She begins with a list of major new features: “A bunch of new and enhanced features like restoring the user-defined movement path in Impress and applying better default print settings in Calc. Check the release notes for complete information from OpenOffice.org. A significantly different chart tool. New extensions provided by Sun and other vendors. You will need to run 2.3 for the... Read Full Story

DonationCoder.com has just published the first part of a three-part review of word processors. Part one covers the three “major word processors” in detail (OpenOffice.org / StarOffice, Microsoft Word 2007, and Corel WordPerfect X3). The next part will cover a crop of good word processor alternatives that aren’t as well-known, and the third part of the series will cover the new category of online word processors that are getting a lot of attention now. For today’s part, author Zaine Ridling... Read Full Story

For SearchEnterpriseLinux, Solveig writes a case study on Migrating a Corporation to OpenOffice. “Janet Neu is a training director for a large corporation. The corporation is working through its pilot program and, assuming success with the pilot program, will be rolling out OpenOffice.org to thousands of desktops.” The reason for this company’s switch came down to the cost of Microsoft Office licenses. While the per-seat licenses are far from cheap, that’s not even the entire story: “Neu... Read Full Story

This weekend something amazing happened to the traffic at Plan-B for OpenOffice.org. It doubled! Why? Someone discovered the Open Office Calc video table of content page using the StumbledUpon Toolbar and must have shared it with her friends. And the crowd was really interested. Visitors that came from Stumbledupon stayed 35% longer than average visitors and their bounce rate was half of the usual average. Read Full Story

The Education project within OpenOffice.org has been restarted recently and is showing a flurry of activity. One of its members has been developing how-to video tutorials for OpenOffice with her students (in Austria). The tutorials are available in several languages, including English, so they should be useful to a global audience. Read Full Story