Monthly Archive:: October 2008
22 Oct 2008
Venezuela adopts ODF as National Standard
Speaking at the Second ODF Workshop in Pretoria, South Africa, Carlos Gonzalez of the National Center of Information Technologies, announced that the Venezuelan government had formally adopted ODF as a standard for the “processing, exchange and storage
20 Oct 2008
Sometimes someone at Microsoft…
By italovignoli On 20 October 2008 In Proprietary
Sometimes someone at Microsoft releases an interview which is worth reading. Two small excerpts: For example, it is harder and harder to continue to define the world of software as a world divided between open source companies
15 Oct 2008
This is not a Guinness, but is definitely a world record
By italovignoli On 15 October 2008 In FOSS
During the second day of availability of OpenOffice.org 3.0, the suite has been downloaded 620.000 times at worldwide level (all languages, all flavours) and 50.000 times in Italy (the Italian version). This brings the total for the
5 Oct 2008
OpenOffice.org: four million downloads in the last twelve months
By italovignoli On 5 October 2008 In FOSS
Sometimes today, a sunny Italian Sunday, someone will download for the fourth million time the Italian version of OpenOffice.org. In the same timeframe, the number of PCs sold in Italy has been around six million. Of course,
1 Oct 2008
Charles H. Schulz and Microsoft at the Italian OOo Conference
The Italian OOo Conference will happen next Friday, October 3, in Bolzano, one of the geographical areas where open source software is most widely adopted, with solutions in place in the Italian schools – the region is