On Friday, 30 May 2008, FreeSMUG.org will be hosting an event in Milano, Italy. At that event, the developers of NeoOffice - Patrick Luby and Ed Peterlin - will give informal presentations and host discussion sessions on NeoOffice’s future plans and other topics of interest to NeoOffice users.

The goal of NeoOffice is to provide an entirely free and complete Mac OS X office suite based on the international OpenOffice.org project—only with the look-and-feel you’d expect from any Macintosh application.

The OpenOffice.org project is a large open-source effort to create the ultimate office “suite” including a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing software, database, and much more. With OpenOffice.org, you can easily import, edit, and exchange files with users of other office programs, such as Microsoft Office or WordPerfect.
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While I was stumble to the net I found a nice website with a hugh list of open source software for Windows computer. Because I like open source software and like to support them, I publish here the link to this site.

The OSSwin project

Have fun.

Sputtr (www.sputtr.com), the leading multi-search engine with thousands of users worldwide, today announced the release of a major new feature that gives its users the ability to actively participate in building the world’s largest and most comprehensive multi-search engine.

London, UK February 4, 2008 — Sputtr (www.sputtr.com), the leading multi-search engine with thousands of users worldwide, today announced the release of a major new feature that gives its users the ability to actively participate in building the world’s largest and most comprehensive multi-search engine.

Steffen Hilgemann, founder and CEO of Sputtr.com explains: “This new feature allows our users to upload and submit completely new search engines to Sputtr’s multi-search engine. By doing so, our users will actively contribute towards building the most comprehensive and user-friendly multi-search engine on the Internet today. Sputtr already includes industry leaders such as Google, Yahoo, Ask, and many more. But in the future we would like to extend our reach to the thousands of alternative or niche search engines that today’s internet users increasingly utilize to find relevant results in an ever more complex online world.”

Charles Knight, editor at influential blogs ReadWriteWeb (www.readwriteweb.com) and AltSearchEngines (www.altsearchengines.com) adds: “I have watched Sputtr’s progress for a long time, and this is the moment that I have been waiting for, the ability to select from the vast array of alternative search engines that we enjoy so much on AltSearchEngines. Congratulations, Sputtr! ”

Sputtr.com currently holds a database of nearly 100 search engines that its users can utilize to build their own customized multi-search engine on Sputtr’s homepage. Says Steffen: “With the help of our active user base we hope to grow the number of search engines on our site to 1,000 by the end of 2008. This would mark a significant improvement in our service for our users, and would increase the reach of the site by a factor of ten.”

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