Office for Mac and the larger interoperability divide between proprietary and open source communities
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Blog: As an industry we are terrible at working on interoperability.  The open source world should be the one to fix this.
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As the proprietary world continues to devour the open-source world, one has to wonder if anyone will be left to shake up the old world.
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New versions of Office, Exchange, too. But are businesses ready to buy?
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Is open source becoming the dumping ground for no-longer-wanted software, sort of like a Salvation Army dropoff point for programs instead of old clothes?
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Even as such open source software developers as Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: SUNW) and OpenOffice.org wax enthusiastic concerning enterprise deployments of their respective Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) Office alternatives, industry analysts are urging caution.
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Can computers get along fine without writers? Word is they just might. [Missing Link]
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For anyone who has been using open source for a while, the current commercial enthusiasm for communities, collaboration, and all things Web 2.0, is rather amusing.  After all, the idea that users are not to be regarded simply as passive and grateful recipients of whatever is handed down to them from on high, but need to be treated as partners and participants who can make valuable contributions to the formulation and development of new products, is central to the way that free software works.  But some companies that are starting to dabble with Web 2.0 ideas are discovering that you have to be careful what you wish for when you solicit this kind of user feedback.  Just ask Michael Dell.
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While the battle between Microsoft and Apple Computer for the nascent digital media market intensifies, Microsoft&#39;s Mac Business Unit has released a significant update for Office 2004 for Mac.
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Microsoft's latest version of Office for Mac adds some nifty interface improvements and a bunch of new features. Should you switch?
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âBento,â says Stephen H. Wildstrom  âtakes the essence of FileMaker Pro, a database-management program aimed at small- and midsize businesses, and marries it to Macâs new Leopard operating system. The result is a powerful organizing tool anyone can use.â
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I have an observation I'd like to disclose about the Open Source community: we tend to leap into all kinds of things before we have all the facts and/or information necessary to make intelligent decisions. We criticize other communities, laugh at things like directory services from the two major NOS players, talk about all our great applications, etc. we hang on to old notions about a what makes Linux tick. Sorry, but that model Eric doesn't fit any more. The community natter appears to come mostly from people who lack deep technical skills and knowledge of enterprises.
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TechWeb - OpenSuse 10.2 includes the OpenOffice.org office productivity suite, the Firefox 2.0 Web browser, Beagle desktop search, GAIM instant messaging client, multimedia tools, and graphical software.
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Gone are the days when free software could blithely ignore what was happening in the world of proprietary code.  The two approaches are now inextricably intertwined as more and more users and companies choose to run both.  One paradoxical consequence of this is that as free software becomes more widely deployed, Microsoft's impact on it becomes greater.  Against this background, a recent shift in Microsoft's public statements about open source assumes a particular importance.
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Open source doesn't necessarily automatically translate into better paid support for customers.  But it does offer a lot more options and aligns customers with vendors more tightly.
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Google is in the online ad-service business. Why does it lavish attention on software developers and open-source projects? Kicking offline Web apps into gear
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The &quot;Art of War,&quot; the oldest military treatise in the world, tells aspiring generals to divide and conquer. For a certain open source operating system, this may be the approach needed to win the inevitable desktop battle.
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Without question, open source is one of the most important forces in enterprise IT. Apache is still the reigning champion of Web server software.