Spreadsheeting: More resources
Links to resource pages for WordPerfect Office, OpenOffice, Google Docs and Microsoft Excel, as well as speadsheet design guidance.
OpenOffice offers macro alternative
The developers behind the open-source OpenOffice, and its commercial offshoot Sun Microsystems StarOffice, have been working on a spreadsheet alternative, called Extensions. OpenOffice Extensions are programs written to run within OpenOffice that customize the office suite.
Turning spreadsheets into business intelligence tools
Still can't quite get your spreadsheet to do what you want it to do? Here are some add-ons that can help.
DISA's Croom, agency leaders recognized
AFFIRM has named Lt. General Charles E. Croom Jr., DISA director, as the recipient of its 2008 Executive Leadership Award for Information Technology Management.
The advantage of online spreadsheets
At the Fose trade show in April, David Girouard, vice president and general manager of Google Enterprise, wowed attendees by demonstrating a few of the advanced features of the spreadsheet in Google Docs, Google's online office suite.
Tom Simmons | Virtualization and the greening of IT
GCN Interview: Tom Simmons, area vice president of federal systems at Citrix Systems, which offers virtualization technology, spoke recently with GCN about the challenges and opportunities of green IT.
Archives, USGS to co-manage geospatial archive
The agencies have signed a pact to ensure that a collection of satellite imagery and photographs will be preserved and accessible.
IBM expands green IT offerings
IBM has expanded its efforts to deliver energy efficiency technologies to government agencies with the announcement of new services, technologies and financing.
Establishing a coherent 100-gigabits/sec ecosystem
A networking industry organization has formed a technical committee and given initial working groups the task of evaluating obstacles to interoperable 100 gigabits/sec data path and optical interfaces.
Gender and technology
Your co-workers in the information technology shop will continue to be mostly of the male persuasion, if a recent survey by Research in Motion is an indicator.
Battle of the low-power chips
Intel has found itself embroiled in yet another processor battle, this time with VIA Technologies, a company long known for its chipsets.
Rank-and-file servers
Low-end systems still do most of the grunt work for your agency, but suppliers offer improved performance.
R. Fink | The writing on the wall
The Packet Rat'commentary: The wirebiter is close to hitting his Federal Employee Retirement System number.
Michael Bechetti | Technical Difficulties
This week's editorial cartoon.
Microsoft forms health services alliance
Alliance seeks to build technology framework for health and human services providers
Medium-range backup
GCN Lab reviews: When you need a terabyte or less of extra storage, external hard drives answer the call.
Army debuts FCS manned ground vehicle
The Non Line of Sight Cannon is intended for combat in both urban and conventional battlespace environments.
Michael Daconta | My data's not ok, yours is not ok
Reality Check'commentary: It's OK to admit your dirty little secret: You have bad data. Guess what? So does everyone.
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