Q: Can my company's accounts department, which uses the Windows platform, migrate to Linux?
A: Your company's accounts department can migrate to the Linux platform, however let us take a look at findings of our survey of a typical accounting SMB, and then see the solutions offered by Linux.

A surge in demand for netbooks is helping drive business for Linux, as the devices are designed to be low-cost with smaller storage, according to Novell's chief technology and strategy officer for Linux

Saying that the Linux version of the Wind U90 gets returned more frequently than its Windows counterpart when ignoring the highly successful sales figures of the Linux-based Asus Eee PC is sort of like saying the Microsoft Zune is the second-best selling portable digital music player while ignoring the fact that the Apple sells like what, like a hundred times or a thousand times more more iPods?

With the unsure economy and Microsoft Vista failing to gain overwhelming acceptance, many people are considering a migration to Linux.

OpenOffice 3.0 adds updated ODF format support, Microsoft Office XML format support (reading only), usability improvements, a new start center, improved annotations in Writer, and improved PDF support.

This article is a short introduction to running Linux Live-CDs with MobaLiveCD. MobaLiveCD is a standalone Windows application (i.e., you do not have to install it - it runs by clicking on the executable) that uses the Qemu emulator to run Linux Live-CDs on your Windows desktop.

Let's face it: Linux can save companies money. It can do lots of really serious work well on machines that can't even minimally run a current version of Windows.

Overall it seems a complete overhaul of the venerable open source office suite. There are dozens of new features and improvements.