Freitag April 29, 2005
"Sun makes light of Microsoft apps"
"Sun Microsystems has developed a technology that will let organisations use Microsoft applications on a Sun Ray thin client."
The full article can be found here.
( Apr 29 2005, 06:15:49 PM CEST )
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"SVG Included in Mozilla Firefox Nightly Builds"
"Chase Phillips reports that nightly builds of Mozilla Firefox now include support for Scalable Vector Graphics on Windows and Mac OS X (Linux builds with SVG are coming soon). The feature is currently disabled by default; to turn it on, go to about:config and set svg.enabled to true."
The full article can be found here.
( Apr 29 2005, 10:54:07 AM CEST )
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"Mozilla's browsers global usage share is 8.69 percent"
"OneStat.com ( www.onestat.com ), the number one provider of real-time web analytics, today reported that Mozilla's browsers have a total global usage share of 8.69 percent."
The full article can be found here.
( Apr 29 2005, 10:52:48 AM CEST )
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"IBM responds on OpenOffice contribution question"
"IBM forked from the original OO.o base (and changed the code) so contributing back isn’t really viable."
The full article can be found here.
( Apr 29 2005, 10:46:02 AM CEST )
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Donnerstag April 28, 2005
"Search Engine runs on portable drives"
"Gaviri PocketSearch(TM) indexes text, HTML, music, video as well as most of the office suites such as Microsoft office, StarOffice, OpenOffice, KOffice, PDFs and a variety of other file formats."
The full article can be found here.
( Apr 28 2005, 10:42:07 PM CEST )
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"Louis Suarez-Potts responds on IBM and OpenOffice.org"
"But, I’m serious when I say that I’d love for IBM to work with us; and we’ll do what we can do encourage that. It’s not just hating IBM at all. From where I sit, they do fine work, I just wish it were also publicly on OOo."
The full article can be found here.
( Apr 28 2005, 10:41:18 PM CEST )
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Mozilla's Mitchell Baker at the Time Magazine Dinner
"As we got to the dinner table I found myself standing between two people from the Time 100 group of 2004. One woman, from the investment world, looked a bit unsure as I described Mozilla and Firefox. But she had brought her son as her guest and he immediately piped up "Firefox! Everyone I know uses Firefox!" And went on to describe why. I then turned to person on my other side, who is active in politics. He too looked a little lost of the idea of software. But his companion, a doctoratal student in the biosciences looked up and said "Firefox! I absolutely use Firefox. All my colleagues use Firefox." And he went on to explain why as well."
The full article can be found here.
( Apr 28 2005, 11:03:18 AM CEST )
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"Clearing the air on IBM Workplace-OpenOffice.org connection"
I'm anxious to read tomorrow's blog:
"Tomorrow, I’ll blog about what else I learned about Lotus Workplace in my conversations with Shamrell. It’s pretty interesting stuff."
The full article can be found here.
( Apr 28 2005, 10:49:48 AM CEST )
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Mittwoch April 27, 2005
"Open Office, IBM, and Sun: Worlds Apart, or Just Miles?"
"Q: So you're against Sun and OO.o too?
A: No. Again, as a daily user of the application I understand perfectly where they're coming from. And while I support IBM's right to operate as they have, I don't think it's in the best interests of either IBM or OO.o. In short, I support IBM's right to choose in this situation, but that does not mean that I have to like the choice that they've made."
The full article can be found here.
( Apr 27 2005, 09:06:25 PM CEST )
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Just switch! - Beefing up presentations with clipart graphics
If you are looking at ways to beef up your StarOffice presentations, there are quite a few options. The simplest one is to just take a look at the "Gallery". The Gallery tool is called by clicking on the following toolbar button:
The StarOffice gallery includes about 1,800 clipart graphics and photos for different topics and themes. Here is a little snapshot:
Another great source for clipart graphics is www.openclipart.org:
Unfortunately, StarOffice and OpenOffice.org do not support the SVG format, yet. Thus, some conversion work is needed to integrate the OpenClipart graphics into the Gallery. To people who are willing to pay for high quality photos I personally can recommend Photos.com:
I really like their pictures. Unfortunately Photos.com is pretty expensive if you only need a high-quality photo once in a while. What clipart and photo resources do you use?
( Apr 27 2005, 09:21:00 AM CEST )
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"Putting the spin on IBM" (about IBM and OpenOffice.org)
I just read this article.
I would have to ask Louis and Simon, but I guess it is just coincidence that they both mentioned IBM. IBM might be an interesting case since most people (including me) still don't know what exactly IBM is doing with OpenOffice.org in their Workplace offering. Here IBM apparently admits that they actually forked OpenOffice.org in order to implement Workplace:
"Technically, no. They were derived from the OpenOffice project, but we forked away from that over a year ago. We componentized them and tried to slim them down a bit, and we also added a whole bunch of fixes and features and cleaned them up.
We will not advertise these as OpenOffice editors; we will be clear that they are OpenOffice-derived and they will support OpenOffice formats, and we encourage people to use OASIS and OpenOffice doc formats in addition to Office ones."
To me, forking is not really supporting an open source project, but other open source supporters might have different opinions about that. The good thing is that IBM now at least officially supports the OASIS OpenDocument standard.
BTW, as you can see here, it is not all the uncommon to ask for a Joint Copyright Agreement (JCA). Novell does the same for Evolution.
( Apr 27 2005, 06:36:48 AM CEST )
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"Is Sun right to insist on copyright transfer?"
"Securing that control over the copyrights is sometimes easier said than done. Some of the copyright holders were dead, I remember Gingell telling me."
The full article can be found here.
( Apr 27 2005, 06:27:30 AM CEST )
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"Last Call for Comments on Proposed Newsgroup List"
"Gervase Markham has updated the list of proposed Mozilla newsgroups and comments are invited."
The full article can be found here.
( Apr 27 2005, 06:26:46 AM CEST )
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"Michael Kaply Revives CCK Project"
"Yesterday, IBM Mozilla developer Michael Kaply posted a newsgroup message to gauge interest in an effort to revive the Client Customization Kit (CCK). After receving over thirty replies to his CCK proposal, Mike has created a CCK wiki page to get the project off the ground."
The full article can be found here.
( Apr 27 2005, 06:25:03 AM CEST )
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"Firefox Used By 1 In 10 Business Professionals"
"Professionals are using Firefox over IE because they like the browser's tabbed browsing feature and they see it as less of a security risk than the Microsoft browser, Janulaitis said. Tabbed browsing allows users to toggle back and forth among multiple web pages without launching a new browser."
The full article can be found here.
( Apr 27 2005, 06:23:33 AM CEST )
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