Office Products Enterprise Network Inc.

open.Order New Release

With some of the issues that have surrounded data integrity in Clear recently we have been delaying any new roll outs of the web application as it was causing some significant issues with the customers experience of the online ordering system. But the time to move forward has arrived !

Project:open.AIR

The Committee of OPEN has been actively reviewing the future options for OPEN members and the office products and machine supply industry generally. We have shown at a recent forum event held by OPEN some of the opportunities that are available in the open source software community.

When standards ain't standards

Graeme Philipson
Sydney Morning Herald
March 11, 2008

I am a big fan of the latest version of Microsoft Office, called Office 2007. Of course, the year is now 2008, but Microsoft many years ago decided to brand its applications software releases by the year they eventually came to market.

It used to do this with its operating systems as well, until it became too embarrassing because the release dates kept slipping.

Imagine a world without copyright

Graeme Philipson
Sydney Morning Herald
June 24, 2008

Anyone can copy anything, anywhere with the latest technology.

TWO weeks ago in these pages, I wrote about the draconian proposals for a new Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement being considered at the G8 meeting in Tokyo next month. The proposals would enable any border guard, in any treaty country, to check any electronic device for any content that they suspect infringes copyright laws, and to destroy or confiscate the offending device on no grounds beyond their own suspicions that it carries offending content.

Microsoft's Select Plus licensing begins Wednesday

Microsoft will begin offering its Select Plus volume discount program on Wednesday, although an analyst said few companies may be interested in it.
Nancy Gohring
(IDG News Service) 30 September, 2008 12:49:00

Starting on Wednesday, enterprises can sign up for Microsoft's new Select Plus licensing program, a plan that one analyst said seems to be designed more to help the software giant than its customers.