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LibreOffice vs. OpenOffice.org

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OpenOffice.org is a free and open source cross-platform office suite, which can read and write MS Office.doc,xls, and.ppt files. But then … Oracle bought Sun. I hope that everyone reading this blog has heard of OpenOffice.org. Which is why I am also keeping a keen eye on MySQL drop-in replacements, as well.

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Open Source vs. Proprietary: Desktop Productivity

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I recently wrote a blog entry about LibreOffice (LO), the fork of OpenOffice.org (OOo) that came after the acquisition of Sun (the old holder/maintainer of OOo) by Oracle. It reads and writes all MS Office formats (except for Access files.) ’).