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| StarOffice is invisible |
| Published: July 31, 2007, 10:11 am |
| Tags: Staroffice And Openoffice Org |
| any books on StarOffice or OpenOffice.org. Not a single one, but dozens on MSFT Office. What's up with that? Are we suffering from "If you build it, they will come" syndrome? Then I went to the web site of Encore Software, the US retail distributor of StarOffice. I didn't see SO listed on their home page among the games they |
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| Great endorsement for OpenOffice.org |
| Published: August 3, 2007, 9:15 am |
| Tags: Openoffice Org |
| "Finally, I tell parents not to bother springing for Microsoft Office. This can take a $499 laptop and increase its price by at least 20%. OpenOffice is a bargain-hunter's friend and I make sure that teachers can support it if they receive files electronically from students." Found here. |
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| Lenovo bundling Linux (and thus OpenOffice.org) |
| Published: August 6, 2007, 10:28 am |
| Tags: Openoffice Org |
| According to this announcement, Lenovo will now also ship Linux on their notebooks. Since OpenOffice.org is included in the Linux distro, OpenOffice.org will now be shipping (directly or indirectly via Linux) on computers from Dell, Lenovo and Everex. Cool! |
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| Dell/Ubuntu systems will be shipped in Germany, France and the UK as well |
| Published: August 7, 2007, 9:52 am |
| Tags: Openoffice Org |
| According to this German article, Dell will ship their Ubuntu systems in Germany, France and the UK as well. Great news for the open source world and OpenOffice.org! |
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| Microsoft Project alternative going open source |
| Published: August 7, 2007, 9:49 am |
| Tags: Openoffice Org |
| millions of users adopting OpenOffice.org will look for alternatives to Microsoft Project, these are great |
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| Don't forget to register for the OpenOffice.org Conference 2007! |
| Published: August 8, 2007, 6:32 am |
| Tags: Openoffice Org |
| This is just a short reminder. Don't forget to register for the OpenOffice.org Conference 2007! From September 19th until September 21st OpenOffice.org developers and users will meet in Barcelona, Spain to discuss all the latest and greatest stuff around OpenOffice.org. I'm sure it will be a lot of fun again! |
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| A hacker's way of app-bundling |
| Published: August 8, 2007, 6:02 am |
| Tags: Openoffice Org |
| Just found this. Pretty cool way of packaging an application to be completely relocatable (though without desktop integration, barring further hacks). Something for OOo Portable? |
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| Interview with Joost Andrae from the OpenOffice.org QA Project |
| Published: September 14, 2007, 4:12 am |
| Tags: Openoffice Org |
| Joost Andrae from the OpenOffice.org QA project. You can get the audio podcast in two formats. The mp3 version can be found here, and the ogg version is provided here. If you want to join the OpenOffice.org QA project, you can find more information on the OpenOffice.org QA project page. Enjoy the |
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| OpenOffice.org 2.3 is out |
| Published: September 17, 2007, 8:30 am |
| Tags: Openoffice Org |
| OpenOffice.org 2.3 just got released. The community press release can be found here, and the release notes are available from here. Probably the most important new features are the new Chart tool, and the new Sun Report Designer extension. If you want to develop your own extensions, check out the OpenOffice.org API Plugin for NetBeans. |
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| Upgrade: The latest version 2.3 of free, open source ... |
| Published: September 17, 2007, 6:22 pm |
| Tags: Downloads, Openoffice Org, Upgrade, Windows |
| The latest version 2.3 of free, open source office suite software OpenOffice.org has been released and is now available for download. The upgrade includes new features, overall polish and security patches. |
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| Release: Latest version 2.3 of free, open source office ... |
| Published: September 17, 2007, 6:22 pm |
| Tags: Downloads, Openoffice Org, Release, Windows |
| Latest version 2.3 of free, open source office suite application OpenOffice.org is now available for download. The upgrade includes new features, overall polish and security patches. |
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| ODF Camp at OOoCon 2007 was a success |
| Published: September 26, 2007, 6:29 am |
| Tags: Openoffice Org |
| office suite like OpenOffice.org they think about them as "sunk costs", i.e. the training does not provide any real benefit, but just makes users capable of doing the same things with another piece of software. Based on customer feedback I can say that this is often not true. The migration trainings are often the very first real |
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| OOoCon Pictures by Florian Effenberger |
| Published: September 26, 2007, 6:01 am |
| Tags: Openoffice Org |
| Effenberger, co-lead of the OpenOffice.org Marketing Project, just published his OOoCon pictures. You can find them here. I still have to upload mine, but I have to admit that I only took a very few pictures in the end. I obviously spend too much time talking to other community members. It's always a lot of fun to meet everybody |
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| OpenOffice.org case studies and solutions |
| Published: September 27, 2007, 3:51 am |
| Tags: Openoffice Org |
| I frequently get asked about OpenOffice.org case studies and solutions. If you are interested in that kind of information as well or if you can even contribute case studies, please check out the OpenOffice.org Market Share Analysis wiki page and the OpenOffice.org Solutions wiki page. |
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| OpenOffice.org on 180,000 seats in Macedonia |
| Published: September 27, 2007, 3:45 am |
| Tags: Openoffice Org |
| Terminal Server software and OpenOffice, Firefox, Thunderbird, Evolution, and Wine." The full article can be found |
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