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If your boss come in with a sentence like “Why don’t we have a microblogging platform like Twitter” and that you want to go for an “on premices” solution, have a look at Laconica.  Still young, but full featured and pretty stable.

The version 3.0 of Open office is out. Some important new fetaures

Mac OS X Support
ODF 1.2 support
Microsoft Office 2007 Import Filters
Solver
Chart Enhancements
Spreadsheet Collaboration Through Workbook Sharing
1024 Columns Per Calc Sheet (Instead of 256)
Display of Multiple Writer Pages While Editing
Enhanced XML support and updated XSLT based filters

If Open office 3.0 is still not at Office 2007 [...]

I’ve been almost right on that one. Google will launch tomorrow its browser, code named Chrome. Early beta, as usual, but we all know that what Google calls a beta is something like a release 5 in some other IT regions.
Yes. After years of rumors, the browser (and the GoogleOS) will be there.
A comic has [...]

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Using open source as a distribution model is a very efficient strategy when well executed. Alfresco in the DMS/ECM world has been taking incredible market shares in just 2 years, as MySQL did in the RDBMs world. Many domains have now their open source challenger: Montavista in the embedded World, Digium with Asterisk [...]