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As you may have noticed, open standards are a hot topic currently. One person who deals with them all the time in a variety of ways is Ch...

Open source lies at the heart of Google – it runs a modified form of Linux on its vast server farms, and uses many other free software pr...

The office suite has occupied a very strange position in the world of open source. As a key software tool used by practically everyone on...

Regular readers of this column will know that I'm something of a fan of forks, but even I was surprised when OpenOffice.org was forked b...

On the 13 April 1999, a press release appeared headed “Mindcraft study shows Windows NT server outperforms Linux.” The summary read: “Micros...

Last week I wrote a piece entitled “Are We Entering the Golden Age of Forks?” I concluded: I predict we are going to see plenty more forks i...

One of the biggest disgraces in this country is the way that computing is taught - or rather, the way it is not taught. I know as a parent f...

Companies based around open source are still comparatively young. So it remains an open question what happens to them in the long term. As o...

Regular readers of this blog will know that I'm a big fan of OpenOffice.org, and that I think it has the potential to break through into...

So, it finally happened: We are pleased to announce that Oracle has completed its acquisition of Sun Microsystems and Sun is now a wholly ow...

Impressive how far and fast Vietnam has moved on the government open source front: Accordingly, by June 30, 2009, 100% of servers of IT div...

I remain perplexed by the state of OpenOffice.org. After years of using Word 2 (yes, you read that correctly - by far the best version Micro...

Those with good memories may recall a phase that Microsoft went through in which it issued (and generally commissioned) a stack of TCO studi...

One of the pivotal moments in the recent history of free software is when a small group of coders got fed up with the slow, buggy mess that ...

As someone who has been following Microsoft for over 25 years, I remain staggered by the completeness of the Vista fiasco. Microsoft's c...

Last week I noted that the release of OpenOffice.org 3.0 seems to mark an important milestone in its adoption, judging at least by the healt...

OpenOffice.org has always been something a Cinderella in the free software world. Partly this is because it started out as a proprietary pro...

All around the world, it seems, people just can't get enough of this amazing free office suite, which is now turning in serious market s...

One sign of the health of open source these days is the number of surveys saying how healthy it is. For example, here's one from Actuate...

"Khmer" and "free software" are not the most obvious collocations. Indeed, the word "Khmer" tends to suggest ...