I’m of course talking about Open Office. The best argument there is to choose Open Office to MS Office is it’s free. This doesn’t mean it is a bare bones suite of applications. It is quite robust. I prefer Open Office Writer, for instance, to MS Word. For one it can save documents in both [...]

By Ashok Ramachandran Open source software (OSS) vendors are reporting spectacular growth in a year when many businesses are offering excuses about the economic downturn. So, how does it matter to you as a SMB? A well known quote from investment guru Warren Buffett is “One of the lessons your management has learned – and, [...]

By Anthony DiSanza The higher education sector is quite unlike other industries. It has its own processes and a different set of demands. Most commercial proprietary application vendors develop their applications focused on a wider domain spread across industries. This, academics complain, creates a distinct disconnect between software vendors and the end-users in academia. To [...]

by: Fat Jack PHP-Nuke, PHP PostNuke, TikiWiki, Xoops, b2evo—you can find them everywhere in the web. These are all the open source software solution used in various areas of web applications. These are most of the time free applications released under special licensing terms. This allows the coding to be shared by all and edited [...]