Erwin's StarOffice Tango

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Freitag März 11, 2005

People love the cool design
Booth duty at CeBIT was very interesting today. Although I'm officially assigned to one of the two StarOffice/OpenOffice.org pods, I spent most of my time presenting the new Sun Ray 170 to all kinds of customers. Everybody loves the slick design!

I remember, about four years ago many people liked the Sun Ray concept, but did not really want to deploy it. Now everything seems to have changed. People seem to be more open to using GNOME, StarOffice, Mozilla (including Firefox and Thunderbird), Evolution, etc. In addition, there are multiple options to run Windows applications on or from a Linux or Solaris box. Apparently the time has come where people realize that a sufficient number of alternative desktop applications are available and that other platforms can provide higher levels of security, manageability and productivity.

Although it is not a new feature in Sun Ray, people still love the smart card based session mobility. There is also a lot of interest for the new broadband capabilities in the Sun Ray Server Software 3.0. It was and still is a very cool product!
( Mrz 11 2005, 10:02:18 PM CET ) Permalink

"How to use fields for editing and content management" in OpenOffice.org
"The Functions tab of the Fields window (Insert > Fields > Other > Functions) contains tools for working with content. Some of the fields on the tab are useful for writing drafts and editing. Others are useful for maintaining different versions of a document in a single file. To maintain multiple versions, you can choose from several fields, each with a different strategy--varying content according to condition, selecting from a list or hiding and revealing content as needed."

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8154
( Mrz 11 2005, 09:59:47 PM CET ) Permalink