Erwin's StarOffice TangoErwin Tenhumberg's Insights into Open Source and Dancing<br>... or why Open Competition mattersFrench hospital migrates to OpenOffice.org- June 3, 2008 According to this French article, the French hospital of Thiers is migrating its 150 desktops to OpenOffice.org in order to spend money on training instead of licenses.http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/french_hospital_migrates_to_openoffice Millions of copies of OpenOffice.org distributed by Asustek- June 3, 2008 I just read this article, and found the following statement particularly interesting: "The company, which had previously estimated that it would sell 5 million Eee PCs this year, forecasts low-cost PC sales are set to hit 20-30 million units globally in 2009, Asustek's Chief Executive Jerry Shen told reporters." Considering that the Eee PCs ship with either OpenOffice.org, StarOffice or StarSuite, these are great news! Last month there were close to 7 Million downloads of OpenOffice.org (not..http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/millions_of_copies_of_openoffice Munich released template management software as Open Source- June 3, 2008 As can be read in this German article, the City of Munich just released their template management software for OpenOffice.org as Open Source under the European Union Public License (EUPL). It's great to see that government organizations start to embrace the open source development model!http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/munich_released_template_management_software Acer laptop with OpenOffice.org pre-installed- June 3, 2008 Cool! The "Acer Aspire one" is yet another mainstream laptop that comes with OpenOffice.org pre-installed: "The Aspire one series comes preinstalled with Linpus Linux Lite version or Windows XP Home. Additional software such as OpenOffice 2.3, one Mail, Messenger, Acer eRecovery Management, Acer Launch Manager, Adobe Reader, McAfee Internet Security Suite, Microsoft Office Trial 2007 are also installed5." Found here.http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/acer_laptop_with_openoffice_org Windows Eee PC with StarOffice pre-installed- June 2, 2008 As can be read in this German review, the Windows version of the Asus Eee PC 900 will have StarOffice pre-installed. This definitely will lead to more adoption of ODF! Cool!http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/windows_eee_pc_with_staroffice Sharjah school adopts OpenOffice.org- June 2, 2008 "Sharjah-based SIA chose a number of freely available open-source programs - including OpenOffice and the Solaris 10 operating system - to run on top of its new thin clients and servers from Sun Microsystems, which it finished installing last year. ... SIA has installed sixteen thin clients in its student labs, with an option to increase to 70 clients in the future. The implementation includes two Sun servers running Solaris 10 and serving virtual instances of Windows XP to the thin clients via.http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/sharjah_school_adopts_openoffice_org |