Many people ask me how people make money out of Open Source (especially in the enterprise software space). I often give the example of Sun Microsytems who are now a company who base nearly all of their business on Open Source (a big change for them from a few years back. Sun invest a huge [...]
OpenOffice.org, the very popular open source office suite, is well known for not being the fastest of applications but when working with large documents it can be become painfully slow as experienced by Adrian at Mercian Labels. By far most recommended changes to try to speed up OpenOffice.org is to alter your settings under Tools>Options>Openoffice>Memory [...]
Some of the smallest problems are sometimes the most annoying. I had a call from a new OpenOffice.org user today who could not find the AutoSum button. I know how he feels, we sometimes get so used to a certain interfaces that we can struggle with even the smallest change. OpenOffice 3 and its earlier [...]
The release of of OpenOffice.org 3.0, the free and open source equivalent to Microsoft Office, in October 2008 caused much excitement in the open source world with over 3 million downloads in the first week alone. The landmark release contained many new features and improved Microsoft Office document support including support for viewing .docx and [...]
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