Erwin's StarOffice Tango

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Donnerstag März 10, 2005

Excitement about Solaris
Today was the first day of the CeBIT fair. I don't know if you have ever been to CeBIT, but it is the largest computer show in the world. Everthing containing a chip or running on a chip is shown there: notebooks, high-end servers, PDA's, cell phones, digital cameras, printers, monitors, software, etc.

Here is a picture of the two-story Sun booth (after the show!!!):

I'm doing booth duty for StarOffice and OpenOffice.org, but I was surprised how many people asked for a copy of Solaris. People seem to be really excited about the OS. I also took a DVD home in order to install the latest version on one of my home computers.

At my pod both existing StarOffice users (of which there are many in Germany) and people new to StarOffice were pretty excited about the new features in StarOffice 8 and the different 3rd party add-ons that we are demoing. For example, we are showing a statistical tool and a real-time engine for financial data feeds.

One person was surprised how powerful the database tool already is. Another person was positively shocked that we support XForms and also support form controls in our PDF export. It seems that we are on the right track with the product.
( Mrz 10 2005, 10:20:48 PM CET ) Permalink Kommentare [1]

"Sun plans StarOffice in Russian, Polish and Dutch"
"StarOffice, Sun's product to rival Microsoft's (Profile, Products, Articles) Office, is available in 11 languages. To expand the market, Sun plans to add five more language versions within a year after shipping StarOffice 8, the newest version of StarOffice, said Michael Bemmer, director of software engineering for StarOffice at Sun.

Sun selected Russian, Polish and Dutch as three of the five additional languages for StarOffice 8."

http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/03/10/HNsunstar_1.html
( Mrz 10 2005, 10:01:25 PM CET ) Permalink

"OpenOffice: Trouble for Microsoft"
"OpenOffice has reached the stage of being able to competently and comfortably replace Microsoft Office as your main office suite. Consider the fact that it is free, and yet manages to beat Microsoft Office at it's own game; it’s a compliment in itself. The only thing that you have to do now is wait for the final version of OpenOffice 2.0 to begin your journey to the world of Open Source. If you are impatient to begin, grab the beta and dive right in. The water's fine."

http://www.cooltechzone.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=1073&Itemid=0&limit=1&limitstart=2
( Mrz 10 2005, 05:16:12 AM CET ) Permalink