http://itmanagement.earthweb.com en-us Copyright 1996-2006 Jupitermedia Corporation rss@jupitermedia.com rss@jupitermedia.com http://backend.userland.com/rss http://redir.internet.com/rss/click/itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3767601 http://redir.internet.com/rss/click/itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3767601 Forced to choose, the average Free and open sourced-based (FOSS) business is going to choose business interests over FOSS every time. http://redir.internet.com/rss/click/itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3767971 http://redir.internet.com/rss/click/itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3767971 In part III of the OpenOffice.org series, learn how to perform a few tasks in OOo that were available in MS Office, just harder to figure out due to the different interface. You can still insert WordArt (actually called Fontwork), diagrams and page numbering in OOo documents. http://redir.internet.com/rss/click/itmanagement.earthweb.com/entdev/article.php/3767976 http://redir.internet.com/rss/click/itmanagement.earthweb.com/entdev/article.php/3767976 Concursive offers companies up to 100 seats of its on-demand, open source CRM suite for one year. 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