Open Office 3.0 Surprises

Has anyone noticed the pleasant surprises in the Open Office 3.0 release?

It includes OO-Draw, which is a Visio-like drawing tool.  I used Lanflow from Pacestar (single user license for 89$) for the purpose previously, but it's nice to have a tool within the OO-Suite.  I'm keen to see if network diagrams are possible with Draw.

For those of you using OO in technical academia, OO-Math will let you write formulae, equations etc conveniently.

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New Business Models for Indian IT SME's

Since the service industries revolution in India of the 1990's a majority of IT SME's have focused on providing software and systems development for customers in USA, Middle-East, UK, Japan and other smaller markets like Singapore/Malaysia, Australia/NZ and Africa.

This series of articles highlights a few new business models that could help Indian IT SME's survive the global recession of 2009-2010 and drive a new era of growth.

• Value Added Resale (VAR) services for established product platforms
• Partnership for product companies from US and Europe to enable penetration into the Indian domestic market
• Adaptation products and tools made in India for overseas markets, in cooperation with local partners

To be continued...