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Gorse Fox has been palying with the new release of Open Office (V2) this afternoon. Superb stuff. He thinks that if it were not for the Esteemed Client's organisation using MS Word, he could probably ditch the bloatware entirely.

A few useful facts:

• A 10.1MB Word file converted to Open Office was 158KB
• Open Office is free
• The download for the whole suite id only 70MB
• Open Office (already) uses open standards
• The suite includes:
• Text Document composer
• Spreadsheet
• Presentation
• Drawing (which includes exporting of SVG files)
• Database integration that allows use of existing databases, or the generation of databses in an imbedded HSQLDB engine.

Gorse Fox commends it, he is mightily impressed. Do visit OpenOffice.org

[File under: OpenOffice, Microsoft, MS Word]