Day: March 16, 2004

I just recently heard about NeoOffice/J, and I finally got around to installing it this week. Wow! I’ve been using OpenOffice.org on Mac OS X via X11, and while it more or less works, the experience of using NeoOffice/J has been much nicer. It looks more like a Windows app than the nice Aquafied OS X apps you might be used to, but it managed to open Microsoft Word and Excel files with ease. One less reason to use Windows…

CIO Magazine: The Myths of Open Source looks at, and attempts to dispell the myths of open source in large organizations.

What are those myths?

1. The attraction is the price tag
2. The savings aren’t real
3. There’s no support
4. It’s a legal minefield
5. Open source isn’t for mission-critical applications
6. Open source isn’t ready for the desktop