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Mittwoch April 09, 2008

HP shipping laptops with OpenOffice.org pre-installed
According to this HP product page, HP is shipping low-cost laptops with Linux and OpenOffice.org pre-installed. I guess, soon all major laptop vendors will have an OpenOffice.org option in their portfolio.
( Apr 09 2008, 08:54:34 AM CEST ) Permalink Kommentare [1]

Spanish low-cost notebook including OpenOffice.org
According to this Spanish article, yet another low-cost notebook including a Fedora-based Linux distro as well as OpenOffice.org will be sold for about 300 Euro. With more and more hardware vendors shipping computers with OpenOffice.org pre-installed, I'm convinced that the OpenOffice.org market share will grow quickly over the next few months and years.
( Apr 09 2008, 08:50:13 AM CEST ) Permalink

OpenOffice.org on 41,000 computers
"At the same time, technology chief Stephen Wilson announced the department will install a free alternative to Microsoft's Office suite, referred to in industry circles as OpenOffice, on 41,000 computers due to be distributed to schools across the state by the end of 2008. "For the first time we're going to install OpenOffice on every computer under our Technology 4 Learning programme," he says."
Found here.
( Apr 09 2008, 08:18:36 AM CEST ) Permalink