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German government should open source its software, committee advises
A government committee recommends a change in German law to accommodate software read more »
Linux migration has already saved Munich £8.9 million
The city has now migrated over 80% of its 15,500 desktops to LiMux, it's own distribution of Linux read more »
OpenOffice dumped as Freiburg votes to switch back to Microsoft
Freiburg will return to Microsoft Office because of severe compatibility problems using an open-source alternative read more »
OpenOffice shortcomings forcing German council to go back to Microsoft
But open source developers say the council should still consider a quick upgrade to OpenOffice or LibreOffice read more »
LibreOffice 3.5.5 fixes multiple arbitrary code execution vulnerabilities
LibreOffice and OpenOffice packages containing security patches have been released for multiple Linux distributions read more »
Open source in government 'could save taxpayers hundreds of millions of pounds'
Canadian open source advocates say proprietary software is wasteful and not conducive to transparency in government read more »
more news ..OpenOffice Blogs
Munich Shows How Open Source Saves Big Money
A Tale of Two Lock-ins
A Question of (Open) Standards
Saving Mandriva
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From Wow to How : Making mobile and cloud work for you
On demand Biztech Briefing-Learn how to effectively deliver mobile work styles and cloud services together.
Windows 8
Check out our latest articles on Microsoft's next-generation operating system.
Accelerate Your IT Efficiency
View the latest capacity management resources including whitepapers, videos and news.
HP acquisitions
Following HP's dispute with Autonomy, we look back at other HP acquisitions in this Computerworld UK slideshow.
OpenOffice In Depth
Five open alternatives to Microsoft Office 2013
These free and open source options deliver many of the same features at a very compelling price read more »
Office 2013 review - New Microsoft suite is best Office yet
With Office 365 Home Premium, Microsoft brings excellent cloud features and pay-as-you-go pricing to the world's best office suite read more »
Apache OpenOffice - Can it still compete with LibreOffice?
OpenOffice finally gets a major update; but it might be a case of too little, too late read more »
The best open source applications for Mac OS X Lion
Top office suites and other miscellany read more »
Is Oracle likely to stick with open source after OpenOffice and Hudson?
NetBeans, MySQL and GlassFish are likely to remain on the books read more »
Is Google Docs Spreadsheet right for business?
Google Docs now has a data filtering function and better graphing, pushing it closer to making Microsoft Office redundant read more »
more in depth ..OpenOffice Slideshows
Fifteen high impact Apache projects
From geronimo to Tomcat to Hadoop read more »
LibreOffice - 11 new and improved features
We look at the improvements which set LibreOffice apart from OpenOffice read more »
more slideshows ..White Papers
Take control of open source software usage in your development organisation
Looking to accelerate developer use of open source software? read more »
Open source governance in highly regulated companies
Open source software can empower developers, increase innovation and improve competitiveness read more »
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The operating system, or its logo, are suddenly everywhere.
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