Erwin's StarOffice Tango

Erwin's StarOffice Tango
Erwin Tenhumberg's Insights into Open Source and Dancing
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Dienstag April 05, 2005

"Small college saves big with OpenOffice.org and Linux"
"Duncan remains pleased with the results of his creativity. "This puts us in control of our tech resources, instead of relying on some third party. It's kind of a scary to say there's some company out there telling me I'm going to buy a new computer every two years. We've doubled the number of computers we have available to us with the cost-savings of OpenOffice.org versus Microsoft Office. We've made available open access to labs and cyber cafés using hardware that others would have just thrown away."
The full article can be found here.
( Apr 05 2005, 04:57:51 PM CEST ) Permalink

Just switch! - FileNet and StarOffice
Unfortunately the information is in German, but as you can read here, an integration between the StarOffice software and FileNet's Enterprise Content Management Software FileNet P8 has been created. The tool is part of a Financial Toolkit CD that has been created for the German market.
( Apr 05 2005, 03:21:20 PM CEST ) Permalink

Just switch! - SAP and StarOffice
Last time I talked about the StarOffice Add-in for Hyperion Essbase. Today I want to mention another third party integration. As you can see here, some work has been done to integrate the StarOffice suite into the SAP software. Stay tuned for more information about integrations between StarOffice and third party ISV applications!
( Apr 05 2005, 03:13:54 PM CEST ) Permalink

Open Solaris in the News

● Apache founder to help govern OpenSolaris (CNETAsia)

● Sun shines on OpenSolaris board

● OpenSolaris Community Picks Board, Gets to Work

● News: OpenSolaris Community Advisory Board FormedRepresentatives From Open Source Community, Sun, and OpenSolaris Pilot Program Hold First Meeting

● Sun's OpenSolaris marketing term has an advisory board (The Register)

● OpenSolaris Community Advisory Board Launched (Simon Phipps' Blog)

( Apr 05 2005, 08:04:12 AM CEST ) Permalink