IBM Lotus Symphony Aims to Corner a Share of Microsoft's Market
Sep 19, 2007About one week after IBM joined the Open Office project, Big Blue is releasing its own free office package. The office software, dubbed Lotus Symphony is based on Open Office.
more »Open Office Version 2.3
Sep 17, 2007Version 2.3 of the popular Open Office suite was released today. Downloads are already available on many mirror servers.
more »IBM Joins Open Office Community
Sep 10, 2007Open Office development will benefit from IBM's own development activities.
more »Linux Entertainment in Airbus A380
Aug 28, 2007When the Singapore Airlines Airbus A380 takes off for its maiden flight October 25, it will have a complete Linux client/server system on board.
more »Free Project Management Tool OpenProj Off to a Flying Start
Aug 24, 2007Projity, the company behind the free OpenProj software reports more than 25,000 downloads of the project software within the first week after the release.
more »StarOffice Free with Google Pack
Aug 20, 2007The Google software package now contains a free version of Sun's StarOffice, the commercial variant of the free OpenOffice.org office software.
more »Lotus Notes 8 Available for Linux Servers
Aug 14, 2007IBM has now released the new version of the Lotus Notes Groupware and Collaboration Suite for Linux servers. Besides numerous enhancements and a new, Java-based architecture, the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 now provides a Linux distribution-based platform for the server.
more »Security Bug in Konqueror, Updates for Seamonkey & Co
Aug 08, 2007Following Firefox and Thunderbird, a known URL security bug was closed in the Seamonkey browser suite in August. A similar bug has now been found in Konqueror.
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