CeBIT: OpenOffice + Linux = Mac

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
May 3, 2007

“National ICT Australia’s Professor Gernot Heiser had some blunt
words for the OpenOffice community–the product isn’t ready to
compete with the big boys.

“‘If you want to be successful in open source it can’t just be a
‘me too’ product. Anything that’s not the best technology will not
work … enterprise is willing to pay for the best. OpenOffice is
not the best … it’s the first thing that made me move from Linux
to Mac,’ Heiser, NICTA program leader of Embedded, Real Time and
Operating Systems, said…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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