| | OpenOffice Looking Better All the Time |
 | | And when taken in hand with the OpenGroupware.org project, Mozilla's Firefox and Thunderbird and the rest of the open-source efforts in core business computing functions, OpenOffice is starting to become a contender for the status that Office has attained—that of a solutions platform. |
| | But now, OpenOffice is starting to do the same to Microsoft in emerging markets by providing 80 percent of the functionality for little or nothing in the way of cost—particularly when compared with what it costs to deploy a copy of, say, the most recent Chinese localized version of Windows and Office. |
| | The architecture of the next release of OpenOffice will make it even better suited to deployment in whole or in part to Linux and Unix terminals, thin clients and other devices where Office can't roam now—and significantly ahead of the planned Office server platforms. |
| www.eweek.com /article2/0,1759,1676737,00.asp?kc=ewnws101504dtx1k0000599 (895 words) |
