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eWeek: OpenOffice Looking Better All the Time

Written By
SG
Sean Gallagher
Oct 16, 2004

“The news that Microsoft is planning to milk even more from its
Office brand with ‘server’ versions of its office productivity
applications can be interpreted in many ways–particularly since it
was leaked on the fourth birthday of OpenOffice.org.

“The open-source desktop productivity suite has increasingly
been a thorn in Microsoft’s side. Born as a result of the
acquisition of StarOffice by Sun Microsystems, OpenOffice.org has
won a fair number of fans–particularly overseas. The European
Union and French governments have adopted OpenOffice for internal
use…”

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Sean Gallagher

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