Gartner: Lotus Symphony No Competition for Microsoft Office
Sep 28, 2007IBM's Lotus Symphony will be unable to break the dominance of Microsoft's Office package according to market researchers Gartner. Open Office still has too many deficits for enterprise use, they say, and the future belongs to Web-based office and collaboration solutions.
more »KDE 4 Preview of KDE 4.0
Sep 26, 2007The first KDE 4 beta release gives users a sneak preview of the many innovations the next K Desktop generation will introduce.
more »IBM Lotus Symphony Aims to Corner a Share of Microsoft's Market
Sep 19, 2007About one week after IBM joined the Open Office project, Big Blue is releasing its own free office package. The office software, dubbed Lotus Symphony is based on Open Office.
more »Adobe Reader 8.1.1 for Linux
Sep 14, 2007The latest version of the PDF viewer Adobe Reader for Linux, version 8.1.1, is now available as a download.
more »Crossover 6.2 with Improved Outlook Support
Sep 14, 2007Codeweavers, the manufacturers of Crossover, the Wine-based runtime environment, have announced version 6.2 of their software for Linux and Mac OS X, and given users a sneak preview of new and improved functions.
more »Red Hat Releases JBoss ESB 4.2
Sep 06, 2007Red Hat Linux has just released JBoss ESB 4.2, a community variant of its JBoss middleware.
more »Business Intelligence Appliance by Ingres
Aug 27, 2007Ingres has launched a software appliance that combines Ingres's own Icebreaker database and Jaspersoft's Business Intelligence Software (BI) with Linux.
more »Wine 0.9.44 with New Features and Fewer Bugs
Aug 27, 2007Wine, the free runtime environment for Windows applications on Linux/Unix has released version 0.9.44 with enhancements and innovations.
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