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LibreOffice Wants to Take on the Big Guys
LibreOffice just got a major update with the release of version 5.0 — and developers claim it will give other productivity suites a run for their money. Italo Vignoli, a director at The Document Foundation (DF), which develops the popular open-source office suite, told CMSWire the same source code
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A Look at How LibreOffice Liberates Content
Do we really need to talk about productivity suites anymore? Probably not. Unless you're one of the very few power users out there, you likely won't find much difference between one suite and another. Yes, there will always be functional differences.
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News You Can Use: MaritzCX, The Document Foundation
The latest in viewing and appointments from the Divided City and the City of the Saints. Look But Don’t Touch The new Android app for LibreOffice teases a bit.
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Document Management Roll-up: Kodak SharePoint Capture, Lexmark's New Strategy
It may have been Labor Day week, but still a few interesting items to note in the document management world.
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Document Mgt Roll-up: Autonomy to Apply IDOL to Computers, Printers?
With the long weekend it was a quiet week. However, there were some nuggets. HP looks set to offer IDOL to ordinary consumers, the Document Foundation was incorporated in Germany, Dropbox released Automator, eDocSign upgraded its electronic signature functionality and DocuLex’ ArchiveStudio gets specialized.
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LibreOffice Unveils Online Prototype, Plans Android, iOS Ports
Announcements at the LibreOffice Conference, held in Paris, October 12-15, included plans for LibreOffice Online as well as Android and iOS ports. Less than one year after announcing its first stable release, the LibreOffice project provides an early look at its online prototype and its Android and iOS port project. The announcements were timed to coincide with last week's LibreOffice Conference in Paris. An online demo video offers an advance look at LibreOffice Online, providing a brief overview of the office suite accessed via a web client.
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Document Mgt Roll-up: BlackBerry for Office 365
Last week was a busy one for conferences, but it was also a busy week for document management.
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Document Mgt Roll-up: LibreOffice Ready for Enterprises, Google Docs' New Look
After everything that has happened around the OpenOffice fork last year, the Document Foundation has announced the release of a version that is suitable for enterprises, Google Docs got a makeover, Kofax and Atalasoft have released an imaging SDK, Metalogix offers archiving for Exchange and Marex releases Filebound Express.
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Document Mgt Roll-up: Google Backs LibreOffice, SharePoint's Records Management Traction
This week, with some of the dust beginning to settle on Oracle’s OpenOffice decision, Google is backing LibreOffice with advice and funding, SharePoint seems to be gaining ground in records management, Nuance closes the Equitrac deal, we took a look at document management on-premise or as an SaaS and Office
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Document Mgt Roll-up: LibreOffice to Offer Enterprise Release, Where Is Google Docs Going?
This week, only a couple of weeks after upgrading its document management software, Nuxeo offers digital signatures, LibreOffice schedules an enterprise release for August, Google Docs outlines medium terms projects, PSIGEN offers more for SharePoint and Primadesk provides document search wherever your documents are stored.
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Will OpenOffice Survive After Oracle Offers It to Community?
In retrospect, Oracle's (news, site ) announcement on Friday that it is finally throwing in the towel on OpenOffice.org (OOo) seemed inevitable, but when the original fork happened and the Document Foundation’s LibreOffice project was set up last October, just about anything was in the cards.
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LibreOffice’s Full v3.3 Release Offers an OpenOffice & Microsoft Office Alternative
The first full stable release of the Document Foundation’s LibreOffice (news, site ) -- a competitor to OpenOffice and Microsoft Office -- has been released as version 3.3 and already looks set to cause a stir.
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Document Mgt Roll-up: Full Libre Office Release, SharePoint Docs on Blackberry
This week, the Document Foundation releases the first full version of LibreOffice -- and puts it up to Oracle's Open Office, Blackberry users will soon be able to access their SharePoint documents, Doculex enhances document collaboration and Ricoh changes direction. First Full LIbreOffice Release in v3.3 LibreOffice (news,
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Interview: How LibreOffice Broke Free from Oracle
Breaking up is never easy to do, but the split between Oracle and the new LibreOffice (news, site ) team has been one of the more traumatic recent events in IT.
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