OpenOffice is ten years behind MS Office? That's just fine!, Mar 07, 2006

In an interview with Australian online technology newspaper IT Wire, Alan Yates, general manager of business strategy for Microsoft's information worker group, said that OpenOffice.org is about where MS-Office was 10 years ago. That is to say, Microsoft seems to think OpenOffice.org is only good for single-desktop users.

My buddy Roblimo over at NewsForge hit the nail on the head in a recent column where he wrote, "While we're glad your client or employer chose an open source license, it's such a common decision these days that it's no longer newsworthy in and of itself."

Scripting languages like PHP, Perl and Python may have taken the Web by storm but the lesser-known Ruby has stepped up to overthrow the might of Microsoft's .Net at search portal schoolseek.com.au.

The most popular open-source software is also the most free of bugs, according to the first results of a U.S. government-sponsored effort to help make such software as secure as possible.

Microsoft plans to announce on Tuesday that it has been granted its 5,000th U.S. patent

Everywhere you looked in Dunedin there seemed to be someone sporting a black T shirt with a penguin on it. I must admit that I found their earnest technological enthusiasm somewhat nauseating.

Open source software is stable, secure, liked by users and can save the government money.

Sun Microsystems' Simon Phipps says going open source for the Solaris market has opened up new opportunities for growth.

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