OpenOffice a Hit at Wallmart!

[TheZorch]

Eco-friendly PC manufacturer Everex began selling $299 systems at
Wallmart in July with the OpenOffice.org open-source productivity
software suite included. So far the experiment has proven to be a
success and customer feedback has prompted Wallmart to request that
Everex continue to offer OpenOffice.org on all of their PC sold
through their retail chain. Here is the article that tells you all
about it.

http://www.linuxelectrons.com/news/application/12215/openoffice-org-free-software-proves-success-walmart

OpenOffice.org is a free open-source productivity suite born from the
Sun Microsystems StarOffice product and is still backed by Sun to this
day. The software includes a comprehensive suite of productivity
tools such as a word processor, spreadsheet, database, mathematical
equation editor for engineers and college students, a simple business
graphics editor and presentation designer. The default file format
used by OpenOffice.org is the International Standards Organization
recognized OpenDocument Format which has so far been accepted as an
International Standard over Microsoft's Office Open XML format which
was recently rejected by the ISO.

OpenOffice.org works on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Sun Solaris, Unix,
FreeBSD and a number of other operating systems. To get
OpenOffice.org goto this website:

http://www.openoffice.org

[ThreadWeaver]

IBM, also tossed its hat into the arena to fight Microsoft's high Office costs.  Based on Open Office, IBM is releasing its own free productivity suite called "Lotus Symphony".

Available here:
http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony/home.jspa

[Michael Haney]

I was trained on Lotus 1-2-3. This might be worth checking out but
I'm still going to stick with OpenOffice.org.

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[Michael Haney]

The review for Lotus Symphony are out and they aren't exactly stellar.

http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2007-09-25-031-26-RV-SW