The OpenOffice Project has sent a letter to Michael Dell, showering praise on Dell Inc.’s chairman and CEO and asking him to consider pre-loading OpenOffice onto PCs. The letter is the result of a flood of requests on Dell’s online suggestion box, IdeaStorm, for Dell PCs pre-loaded with both Linux operating systems and the open-source suite of desktop productivity applications.
If you are not after the new pretty graphs or intuitive GUI, OpenOffice can easily compete with Office 2003/2007. It’s just up to Dell to listen…
Source: CRN.com