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InternetNews
February 12, 2010 |
OpenOffice 3.2 Lands Amid Critical Changes The new OpenOffice.org release offers a handful of tweaks and improvements. But with an independent Sun now largely out of the picture, what's in store for the project's future?   |
InternetNews
October 13, 2008
Sean Michael Kerner |
OpenOffice Hits 3.0: Can It Challenge Microsoft? Latest release ups the feature count, but Microsoft still isn't worried about the open source world's alternative to Office. |
InternetNews
August 16, 2007
Andy Patrizio |
Google Takes StarOffice For Its Pack Google is adding Sun Microsystems' StarOffice suite to Google Pack, its freely downloadable collection of productivity software. |
InternetNews
April 24, 2006
Sean Michael Kerner |
Open Source: The Intelligence Behind Business? Open source business intelligence vendors Pentaho and JasperSoft hope to challenge commercial competitors. |
InternetNews
October 10, 2007
Sean Michael Kerner |
Pentaho Makes Open Source BI Semantic Pentaho says its new offering presents less risk to users than commercial alternatives. |
InternetNews
July 25, 2007
Sean Michael Kerner |
Open Source ETL Takes On Proprietary Intelligence Can open source ETL vendors take on proprietary software? |
InternetNews
September 16, 2004
Michael Singer |
Sun, Microsoft Clause Singles Out Openoffice The settlement of the decade has a clause in it that protects Sun's desktop but not necessarily any of its OpenOffice.org brethren. |
InternetNews
September 10, 2007
Stuart J. Johnston |
IBM Joins OpenOffice Group, Contributes Code The time may finally be right for OpenOffice to make headway against Microsoft's Office "hegemony," so IBM is adding its weight to the putsch. |
InternetNews
March 17, 2011 |
Pentaho Business Intelligence 3.8 Guides Analysis The new Pentaho BI Suite Enterprise Edition 3.8 improves in-memory caching capabilities for both Enterprise and Open Source users. |
InternetNews
May 8, 2009
Sean Michael Kerner |
OpenOffice 3.1 Gets a Makeover With 60 million downloads of its last version, open source office software aims to look better. |
The Motley Fool
March 18, 2009
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
The Tech-Stock Feeding Frenzy Starts Now WSJ.com is reporting that IBM is readying a $6.5 billion -- or better -- bid for Sun Microsystems, a buyout that would roughly double Sun's value. |
InternetNews
December 17, 2010 |
Oracle Releases Open Office 3.3, Cloud Office Oracle updates its open source office suite in version 3.3 with an array of new features, debuts new Cloud Office Java server application available through a licensing agreement. |
InternetNews
April 3, 2009
Sean Michael Kerner |
IBM-Sun Acquisition to Be Announced Today? Talk about a potential acquisition of Sun by IBM has been swirling for the last few weeks and now has hit a new level. |
InternetNews
April 3, 2009
Sean Michael Kerner |
Open Source Business Intelligence Gets 'Cloudy' New releases from JasperSoft and Pentaho underscore the growing importance of Software as a Service for data analytics. |
InternetNews
October 20, 2005
Jim Wagner |
OpenOffice.org Opens 2.0 Doors The latest version of the open source office suite is now open for business in what can potentially be a wedge against Microsoft Office. |
InternetNews
October 4, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Sun, Google to Push Java, Toolbar The two companies announced an agreement today to work together to promote the Java Runtime Environment (JRE), the Google Toolbar and the OpenOffice.org productivity suite. |
InternetNews
September 28, 2010 |
LibreOffice Challenges OpenOffice Leading Linux distributors back a new, and separate, direction for the open source OpenOffice.org suite. |
InternetNews
October 3, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Next Up: Google Office? Google and Sun expected to announce cooperation on a hosted version of an open source productivity suite. |
InternetNews
March 18, 2004
Ron Miller |
Sun Sees StarOffice on More Euro Desktops Rival to Microsoft announces one million more sales of its StarOffice productivity suite in Germany. |
InternetNews
September 28, 2004
Michael Singer |
Open Office XML May Satisfy ISO A letter to Sun Microsystems' COO Jonathan Schwartz by the European Commission this week may set the stage for the International Organization for Standardization to adopt the Open Office XML format as an ISO standard. |
InternetNews
October 28, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Piecing Together The Sun Google Puzzle Google and Sun Microsystems' partnership could produce something with the features and functions of OpenOffice. |
InternetNews
December 9, 2008
Sean Michael Kerner |
Red Hat Backs Jaspersoft's Open Source BI A new round of financing is set to bolster open source startup Jaspersoft as it competes against the big players in business intelligence. |
The Motley Fool
August 16, 2007
Anders Bylund |
Google's Latest Software Move Free and well-supported productivity software, backed by two industry giants. A Microsoft slayer? Not quite. |
The Motley Fool
October 14, 2010
Anders Bylund |
Oracle Dips a Toe in Open Source Forget its current tepid support; the database giant could profit handsomely by diving in. |
Entrepreneur
December 2003
Hyman & Kooser |
Tech Buzz Improving your business's Web search status... a full office suite for next-to-nothing... etc. |
PC Magazine
August 17, 2005
Edward Mendelson |
Office Software on the Cheap OpenOffice.org and ThinkFree, low-cost alternatives to Microsoft Office, offer compatibility and similar features at a reasonable price. |
The Motley Fool
August 24, 2007
Tim Beyers |
Sun Seeks a Java Jolt Sun Microsystems is changing its ticker from SUNW to JAVA. Does a new ticker presage a new business model? |
PC Magazine
February 3, 2004
Edward Mendelson |
StarOffice 7 Makes a Run at Office Can Sun Microsystems' StarOffice 7 supplant Microsoft Office on your desktop? |
InternetNews
October 20, 2008
Andy Patrizio |
Sun Preliminary Quarterly Figures Show a Drop While not final, they tend to be a fairly accurate indicator of where things will fall, and in this case, they are falling short. |
PC Magazine
May 20, 2010
Edward Mendelson |
Office 2010: Not Your Only Choice Microsoft Office 2010 is the obvious choice when it comes to office suites. But is it always the right one? What about Google Docs, OpenOffice.org, Zoho, or Coral WordPerfect Office? Is one of these alternatives right for you? |
The Motley Fool
August 6, 2008
Linda Brewton |
Partly Cloudy Days Ahead for Sun Microsystems After reporting fourth-quarter results that were mainly in line with Wall Street expectations, Sun Microsystems now predicts a slight decline in sales and negative earnings per share for its current quarter. |
InternetNews
March 2, 2007
Sean Michael Kerner |
Barry Klawans, CTO, JasperSoft JasperSoft made the decision to become open source just over two-and-a-half years ago and since then has become a leading open source business intelligence vendor. |
InternetNews
January 1, 2004
Sean Michael Kerner |
OpenOffice Finds Sweet Spot with Governments Following a trend by foreign administrations, the Israeli government this week suspended its acquisitions of new computer software from Microsoft. Several government agencies have turned to OpenOffice.org as an alternative to Microsoft due to cost and proprietary file formats. |
InternetNews
July 22, 2010 |
Oracle Looks to Calm Sun Customer Concerns A Garter report found that Sun customers aren't happy with the flow of information from the company's new owner. Now Oracle is moving to calm frustrated Sun users. |
The Motley Fool
May 2, 2008
Anders Bylund |
Sun's Cloudy Vision Sun Microsystems publishes a train wreck of a quarterly report. |
InternetNews
June 23, 2009
Andy Patrizio |
Sun Expands HPC Hardware and Software Rumors be damned, Sun continues to beef up its high performance computing product line. |
PC World
May 2, 2002
Patrick Thibodeau |
Can StarOffice Steal Users From Microsoft? Microsoft's new pricing plan may cause some users to switch office suites, researcher says... |
InternetNews
December 15, 2009 |
HP Gets Aid in Wooing Sun's Server Customers HP is enlisting some aid in making its play for Sun customers even strong. |
InternetNews
February 5, 2004
Michael Singer |
StarOffice Wins More Enterprise Desktop Space Sun updates for x86 systems and notches a big customer win by landing United India Insurance Company, one of the largest insurers in India. |
T.H.E. Journal
April 2001
Elizabeth Amberg |
Software Review - StarOffice 5.2 The StarOffice 5.2 office suite from Sun Microsystems is a multi-platform program with 200 new and enhanced features. Designed as a complete solution for office productivity needs, the software can be used as a desktop, an Internet browser, a presentation tool, a database manager, and more... |
InternetNews
December 4, 2006
Sean Michael Kerner |
Novell Joins Microsoft in ODF Effort Six months after the initiative gets under way, Novell is lending its expertise to getting Open XML support into OpenOffice.org. |
InternetNews
November 17, 2008
Andy Patrizio |
What's Next for Sun? Can Sun cut its way to profitability and prominence, or is it just looking for a graceful exit - and friendly buyer - at this point. |
T.H.E. Journal
August 2002
Anne Kim |
Open Source Presents Benefits to Educators Cash-strapped educators may find some relief in their technology budgets if open source continues to make headway. More importantly, they may also find a new and improved way to teach. |
InternetNews
December 9, 2008
Paul Shread |
Sun's Financial Failings Greatly Exaggerated If you're expecting Sun Microsystems to be rescued by a white knight, you'll be disappointed: The company doesn't need to be saved. |
InternetNews
November 10, 2008
Judy Mottl |
Sun Embarks on New Storage 'Road' Sun pushes out first open storage appliance on Open Solaris platform, offering an inexpensive take on network storage. |
InternetNews
March 18, 2009
Andy Patrizio |
Would a Sun-IBM Marriage Work? Overlapping products and vastly different cultures will present challenges in a merger between IBM and Sun. But if they make it work, the results could be great for both sides. |
InternetNews
June 1, 2011 |
Oracle Turns to Apache for OpenOffice From the blogs: Oracle donates the open source OpenOffice.org project to the Apache Software Foundation. Is it too little too late? |
InternetNews
January 27, 2009
Andy Patrizio |
Sun Just Misses Profit on Modest Sales Slide Sun Microsystems has been declared dead plenty of times. But its most recent quarter shows the company is very much alive - with some of its products even proving hits. |
The Motley Fool
March 26, 2010
Anders Bylund |
Oracle Kicks Sun Into Shape There's more kicking to be done, but Larry Ellison's changes at Sun make a lot of sense. |
The Motley Fool
October 4, 2005
Tim Beyers |
Google Finally Goofs Up It teams with Sun to challenge Microsoft Office. Yes, StarOffice is solid technically. But this is still an incredibly lame business move. Investors, take note. |
