Microsoft’s Office suite could have plausible challenger on the desktop for the first time since Lotus gave up trying to take on Redmond a decade ago.

The Malaysian Administrative Modernization and Management Planning Unit (MAMPU) has announced that the agency will be migrating to OpenOffice.org office suite as well as adopt the OpenDocument Format (ODF). In addition, Microsoft Office is to be phased out by end of 2008.

Here we will discuss the procedure to be followed for making OpenOffice run faster in Ubuntu.

Openoffice is an open source software offering its users many desktop applications as text editing and spreadsheet application.

Sun Microsystems on Monday plans to announce that it will provide support for the OpenOffice.org productivity software suite, citing a wave of momentum behind the open-source project.

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From recent media reports, casual readers could easily believe that OpenOffice.org, the popular free office suite, is fragmenting.

"OpenOffice works on Linux, Windows and Mac. It also supports a wider range of languages for its interface, and it's free software so you can adapt it to your needs or easily write add-ons," Matías Bellone, analyst at Kayote Networks in Argentina, told LinuxInsider. "I have to admit though, that its interface is still sub-par.