Erwin's StarOffice TangoErwin Tenhumberg's Insights into Open Source and Dancing<br>... or why Open Competition mattersSurvey: Strong Use of Open Source Desktop Applications- May 31, 2008 "That's no longer the case, according to a survey of IT and business executives and managers, conducted in late April 2008 by CIO.com. The survey, collecting data from 328 respondents, showed that more than half the respondents (53 percent) are using open-source applications in their organization today, and an additional 10 percent plan to do so in the next year. For nearly half, 44 percent, open-source applications are considered equally with proprietary solutions during the acquisition...http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/survey_strong_use_of_open What are your experiences with Zotero- May 27, 2008 I just came across this blog entry about Zotero, where it says: "When you visit a website like ScienceDirect, and start reading a paper, a little icon will appear on the address bar. Click it and Zotero will save the citation information to its library. It can spit that information into Microsoft Word or OpenOffice in lots of different formats." Just curious, what are your experiences with Zotero Does it work for you as an alternative to EndNotehttp://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/what_are_your_experiences_with German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) Deploys StarOffice- May 27, 2008 According to this German article, the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) is switching to StarOffice for all 500 desktop PCs. 90% of the BSI employees have already gone through the migration. Another great success story for ODF!http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/german_federal_office_for_information OpenOffice.org Event in Brussels- May 27, 2008 I just learned that the ProFoss event in Brussels on June 10 will have a focus on OpenOffice.org. The list of speakers sounds very interesting!http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/openoffice_org_event_in_brussels Huge Success for the ODF Community- May 22, 2008 First, I warmly welcome Microsoft to the community of ODF supporters. As most of you will have noticed by now, Microsoft just announced that they will start supporting ODF out of the box with Service Pack 2 for Microsoft Office 2007. My favorite statement from the Microsoft announcement is the following promise: "It will also allow customers to set ODF as the default file format for Office 2007." Thus, very soon it should be very easy for organizations to standardize their document workflows on.http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/huge_success_for_the_odf OpenOffice.org at LinuxTag Berlin- May 21, 2008 OpenOffice.org will have a strong presence at LinuxTag 2008 in Berlin. In the Sun booth, OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta will be demo'd including two new OpenOffice.org extensions, the Sun PDF Import Extension and the Sun Presenter Console. Mozilla Thunderbird and Lightning will be shown as well. In addition, there will be quite a few OpenOffice.org sessions as part of the conference program.http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/openoffice_org_at_linuxtag_berlin Interested in some extra money- May 20, 2008 Are you interested in some extra money If yes, you should check out the OpenOffice.org Community Innovation Program. Maybe there is something you could do until 23 June 2008 that would let you win a price! If you're a great developer, but can't come up with a good idea yourself, check out this list of ideas. I could also imagine someone porting and integrating the 3D slide effects that were developed during a past Google Summer of Code project. Another interesting idea would be adding special..http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/interested_in_some_extra_money New Blog about ODF Development Tools- May 20, 2008 J. David Eisenberg, the author of the online book "OASIS OpenDocument Essentials", just started a cool new blog about ODF development tools. I'm looking forward to all the articles!http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/new_blog_about_odf_development Another cool OpenOffice.org review- May 14, 2008 "The first noticeable item is how quickly OpenOffice 3.0 beta loads, even when compared with Microsoft Office 2008. In less than five seconds you are at the welcome screen ready to create your next masterpiece. Where the X11 interface felt choppy and lookedlike an X11 interface, OO 3.0 definitely looks and feels like a fully integrated Aqua application, with menus being very responsive and keyboard shortcuts working (mostly - hey, its beta) as expected. How does each behave in this newly...http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/another_cool_openoffice_org_review More OpenOffice.org 3.0 on Mac OS X Feedback- May 14, 2008 "Just a few words here... The Openoffice Aqua is still only an alpha version, - not even a beta.:-) but when this said, I can only say that the last build of OpenOffice 3.0 Aqua is running very, very stable on both OS X 10.4.11PPC10.5.2PPC as well as on a MacPro with both 10.4.11 and 10.5.2. It is more that three times as fast as NeoOffice and more than twice as fast than both MSOffice 2004 and 2008! - And until now i haven't had a single 'unexpected quit' with the last two builds of OOo3.0...http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/more_openoffice_org_3_0 |