News 2003-02: February

2003-08-19

The following articles represent a selection of those pertaining to OpenOffice.org, Open Source, or the general IT industry that may be of interest to the community. If you would like to share an article with the community, please send the link to Louis Suárez-Potts, editor, at marketing@openoffice.apache.org.

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2003-02: February
Andrew Grygus: Opinions	2003 And Beyond 2003-02-28
	Andrew Grygus's informed and informing opinion on the state and future of IT. Favorable mention of OpenOffice.org.
USA Today.com	Rivals chip away at Microsoft's dominance 2003-02-28
	Byron Acohido writes on the increasing threat posed to Microsoft Office by Open Source alternatives, such as OpenOffice.org
Bangkok Post	Support growing for free Thai office suite 2003-02-12
	Karnjana Karnjanatawe writes that, "Use of the free Thai-language office suite, Pladao Office, is starting to catch on among corporate users, which are attracted to the alternative to the Microsoft Office suite as a way to reduce investment costs." [Pladao Office is Thai OpenOffice.org -Ed.] Worth reading.
NewsForge	Interview: OpenOffice.org is gaining momentum 2003-02-19
	Robin 'Roblimo' Miller interviews Marketing Co-Lead Sam Hiser. "This article is a lightly-edited transcript of [an IRC] conversation. It sounds like the already excellent OOo is getting even better -- and more popular -- every month."
The Inquirer	Swiss tax office distributes open source software 2003-02-17
	The original article is in German, but the British Inquirer has a pointed account of the Tax Office's use of OpenOffice.org.
NewsForge	Anger spews over Microsoft appearance at yet another Open Source event 2003-02-11
	Tina Gasperson reports that "Now that some people in the Free Software community have discovered Microsoft's Shared Source guru Jason Matusow is slated to speak at the Open Source for National and Local eGovernment Programs in the U.S.and EU conference, they are gunning for the show's organizer." Read more; the issues are interesting and have recently consumed the Marketing list.
NewsForge	Open Source in Mexico 2003-02-04
	Robin 'Roblimo' Miller writes on the state of Open Source in Mexico. Worth reading.
c\|net	Trail of tears: MySQL, ODBC & OpenOffice 1.0 2003-02-07
	Joe Barr gives some excellent tips for integrating OpenOffice.org with databases.
c\|net	South Africa embraces open source 2003-02-04
	Paul Festa writes on the exciting news that Sout Africa has embraced Open Source Software. Worth reading.
IBM Developer Works	Thinking XML: The open office file format 2003-02-04
	Uche Ogbuji writes a very positive review of OpenOffice.org and its XML file format. Here's the lead: "OpenOffice.org is a mature, open source, front office applications suite with the advantage of a saved file format based on an open XML DTD. This gives users and developers an extraordinary amount of flexibility and power in dealing with work produced in OpenOffice.org."
c\|net	Advocates join to promote desktop Linux 2003-02-03
	Stephen Shankland reports on the new Desktop Linux Consortium, of which OpenOffice.org is a founding member.
eWeek	Microsoft Warns SEC of Open-Source Threat 2003-02-03
	As reported by Peter Galli, Microsoft has stated in an SEC filing that OSS may lower its bottom line because it may have to charge less.