Browse by Tags

OpenOffice 3.0 Released

Longtime Open Source Microsoft-Office-Wannabe OpenOffice has released an updated version. Now at 3.0, OpenOffice provides most of the functionality of more expensive Office application suites. It is said that 80% of Microsoft Word users actually only use 20% of the application. If that is the case, then there really is a market out there for very functional...

Cisco Reaches Agreement to Buy Jabber

Cisco Systems continues to build their collaboration offerings announcing an agreement to acquire privately held Jabber . Jabber produces enterprise sinstant messaging and presence applications, including a turnkey appliance to simplify Enterprise IM deployments. Along with recent acquisitions of WebEx and PostPath , this annoucement brings an impressive...

Cisco Buys PostPath for $215m US

There are, or rather were, several products marketing themselves as Exchange Server replacements that really have become media darlings in the open source and Linux communities. These include Scalix , Zimbra , OpenXChange , PostPath , and even Axigen (I am doing a review of Axigen which will be posted in this channel in September). Well Cisco has just...