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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.Libology Blog
Established July 2006
ISSN: 1946-1852
by Rick Mason
Tag Archives: OpenOffice.org
Oracle buys Sun
Oracle has purchased Sun Microsystems. This is significant on many levels. Many of our library systems run on software or hardware from these companies. The Voyager library I used to work for used an Oracle database running on a Sun … Continue reading
Posted in Acquisitions, Blogs, Cataloging, ILS, Libraries, News, Online Databases, Online Services, Open Source, Software, Wiki
Tagged closed source software, III, ILS, internet software programs, Java, JavaScript, library systems, Millennium, MySQL, OpenOffice.org, OpenSolaris, Oracle, Oracle Corporation, software rights, Sun Microsystems, Sun Solaris, technology world, Voyager, Voyager library, web-based software platforms
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Document Freedom Day!
Today is the second annual celebration of Document Freedom Day! So why are open document formats important? What happens when someone sends you a document created with Microsoft Word 2007, and saved with the default file format? You get a … Continue reading
Posted in Groups, Licensing, News, Open Source, Software
Tagged Director, Document Freedom Day, Go-Oo, Kent State University, Kent State University Trumbull Campus Library, Microsoft, Microsoft Office, ODF, Open Document Format (ODF), open formats, OpenOffice.org, Rose Guerrieri
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