“For all of the innovation that occurs in today’s technology
marketplace, the most commonly used business applications-those
associated with Microsoft Office–remain stale and hackneyed. While
we wait for Microsoft to come out with a new version of Office that
overshoots user need while ensuring that consumers, businesses and
government remain locked into Microsoft specific standards, I put
forth the notion that an open source business productivity suite
has the rare opportunity to dislodge Microsoft’s stronghold on the
desktop–it just needs a little help from the community…”