http://opensource.sys-con.com/ Latest articles from Erwin Tenhumberg Copyright 2008 OPEN SOURCE MAGAZINE Sun, 20 Jul 2008 03:37:00 GMT OPEN SOURCE MAGAZINE 10 http://backend.userland.com/rss http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/498422.htmhttp://opensource.sys-con.com/read/498422.htm Wed, 28 May 2008 16:00:00 GMT Just as we have become dependent on oil as an energy resource, we have also become dependent on a single vendor solution for saving our digital history - in the form of our word processing, presentation, and spreadsheet documents. Last year, it was estimated that more than 90 percent of the office productivity suite market was controlled by one vendor, and, historically, because of this dominance, consumers, businesses small and large, and governments have been left with few viable options.