10 great free desktop productivity tools that aren't OpenOffice.org
These free and open source applications for Windows, Linux, and Mac desktops put power into the hands of users without taking from their wallets
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Open office dilemma: OpenOffice.org vs. LibreOffice
OpenOffice.org is one of the leading competitors to the Microsoft Office suite of business productivity applications. Originally developed as StarOffice in the late 1990s, the suite had been managed in recent years by Sun Microsystems as an open source project. But when Oracle acquired Sun in April 2009, the future of Sun's software offerings -- particularly free ones like OpenOffice.org -- was called into question. Before long, key OpenOffice.org developers, unhappy with the status quo under Oracle, began defecting from the project.
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First look: Office 365 beta shows promise but lacks polish
Office 365: A revamped offering that combines the features of BPOS with Office 2010. From what we've seen of the Office 365 beta, it still has a long way to go before it can be considered a true turnkey solution for business.
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Microsoft: We're more enterprise-ready than Google Apps
Microsoft is bolstering its cloud presence with its Office 365 cloud application suite and believes it has more to offer enterprises than Google has with its own online applications, a Microsoft executive said on Thursday.
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10 great free desktop productivity tools that aren't OpenOffice.org
These free and open source applications for Windows, Linux, and Mac desktops put power into the hands of users without taking from their wallets
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Free desktop tools that aren't OpenOffice
Most everyone who's had some experience with free open source software has learned about the OpenOffice.org suite of productivity programs: a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, database, and drawing tool that provide a good deal of the functionality of their commercial counterparts. For users who need powerful productivity tools but don't require a high degree of compatibility with Microsoft-formatted files, OpenOffice.org is almost a no-brainer.