The French Gendarmerie intends to save $50 million in switching from Windows to Ubuntu.

Zenwalk 6.0 has shown some real work: the project has separated from GNOME Office and MPlayer, brings a new desktop version and provides numerous optimizations.

The new OpenOffice 3.0.1 is the release of a portable, USB loadable version of OpenOffice.

Gears is an open source application that allows users offline access to Google's documents and spreadsheets. But not entirely problem-free.

In the classic business of high end infrastructure, Sun has been experiencing diminishing sales. The company recently presented its sales figures at the Munich preview to the CeBIT trade show, which opens in March, along with a hint of what they will focus on at the show.

AdempiereERP is among the 15 projects that will present their work at CeBIT, offering an enterprise ressource planning for the German market.

With a bug fix release the OpenOffice team has enhanced its free open application suite and added a few features in the mix.

Free office solution OpenOffice.org is still in the best of shape, based on reactions from project members to Novell developer Michael Meeks's recent pessimistic view. The Linux Foundation is one of many who are concerned. All want one thing: more.