Friday, February 10th, 2012 8:25 am

Oracle: OpenOffice should be community based

Redwood Shores (ip-192.com): Oracle will no longer offer a commercial version of the OpenOffice application suite, the computer technology corporation says. Instead, the Redwood Shores based company plans to hand the code to the open source community. "Given the breadth of interest in free personal productivity applications and the rapid evolution of personal computing technologies, [...]

Dell pitches Ubuntu over Windows

Round Rock (ip-192.com): Dell says that users should buy more computers running Ubuntu Linux. The Round Rock, Texas based information technology company says on Dell’s Ubuntu website that the Debian based Linux distribution is safer than Microsoft Windows. "The vast majority of viruses and spyware written by hackers are not designed to target and attack [...]

Novell: Up for sale?

Waltham (ip-192.com): Novell has put itself up for sale, several news outlets report. The Wall Street Journal reported that the Waltham, Massachusetts based company can count on up to 20 bidders, most of them private equity firms. An unsolicited takeover bid by Elliot Associates to buy Novell for $5.75 per share in cash was turned [...]

Office 2010: Online collaboration key

Redmond (ip-192.com): Microsoft’s Office Web Apps, the limited add-supported online version of Microsoft Office 2010, will allow customers for the first time to access and use well known applications such as Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint for free. In a move seemingly aimed to counteract Google Apps, users will be able to store their documents [...]