Dienstag April 19, 2005
4,000 StarOffice licenses and 1,500 Sun Ray thin clients
"As a sign of its progressive approach to utilizing the latest technology to provide first class medical services, SANG-HA recently deployed 1,500 SunRay thin client desktop systems, in addition to purchasing 4,000 StarOffice licenses, in order to refresh its IT technology strategy. In addition to SANG-HA, Sun counts Saudi Aramco, STC, and SAMBA as key customers in the Kingdom."
The full article can be found here.
( Apr 19 2005, 04:08:20 PM CEST )
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Just switch! - Fonts can make a big difference!
I had known for quite a while that the additional fonts bundled with StarOffice are critical for optimal Microsoft Office compatibility/interoperability. However, yesterday I really understood why our fonts make such a big difference.
Many documents (especially PowerPoint presentations) use different bullets to illustrate all kinds of lists. In order to be able to display all those bullets correctly, StarOffice bundles a font called StarSymbol. What I did not know was that StarSymbol contains about 1700 symbols whereas the free alternatives contain only about 600 symbols. Thus, make sure that you have the right fonts installed!
( Apr 19 2005, 09:34:16 AM CEST )
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"Trusted OS to the Security Rescue"
"General-purpose operating systems have strengthened their reliance on this principle by fine-tuning the privileges of applications and users. For example, Solaris 10 has new process rights management that limits an application's rights to the bare minimum required for it to run. In this system, even if an application is compromised by a buffer overflow or an unpatched vulnerability, an attacker cannot increase his or her privileges on a machine. In the Linux world, Exec Shield and Pax are each vying to become the preferred technology for protecting the memories of Linux servers by limiting the damage compromised applications can do."
The full article can be found here.
( Apr 19 2005, 09:28:38 AM CEST )
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More ISV support for Solaris (Symark PowerBroker)
"Symark, developer of leading UNIX/Linux security and administration solutions, today announced that market-leading Symark PowerBroker(R) supports the recently released Solaris(R) 10 operating system (OS). Additionally, Symark and Sun Microsystems announced an extension of their marketing partnership."
The full article can be found here.
( Apr 19 2005, 09:26:02 AM CEST )
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Solaris at the Vatican
"The Vatican site experienced extended outages earlier this month as Internet users around the world sought information about the failing health of Pope John Paul II. After the initial series of outages, The Vatican made changes to its hosting infrastructure, switching from a Hewlett Packard Tru64 Unix operating system to Sun's Solaris 9. The site performed better in the wake of the switch, and was widely available during a webcast of the Pope's funeral, but is struggling today."
The full article can be found here. It would be interesting to know what the hardware configuration is!
( Apr 19 2005, 09:24:08 AM CEST )
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"Experts: Linux desktop growth steady and unstoppable"
"What are the top open source desktop applications that you know of, including your own? What's missing?
White: I think the 'must have' list is Firefox, Evolution or Thunderbird, OpenOffice and CrossOver. On that last one, I'm probably biased.
What's missing is an obviously superior group calendaring solution. Many choices exist, but none of them have emerged as the clear winner. The Sunbird stuff from Mozilla looks promising, and Chandler is intriguing, but neither of those is in shipping format yet. "
The full article can be found here.
( Apr 19 2005, 09:20:07 AM CEST )
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"Mozilla.org Audience On the Rise"
"In March 2004, according to Nielsen/NetRatings, Mozilla.org had a unique audience of 1.1 million home and work Internet users in the US Last month, the number skyrocketed 284 percent to 4.1 million unique users. The Firefox page recorded similar growth in terms of unique audience, with Nielsen/NetRatings reporting in March 2005 that the page had a unique audience of 2.7 million, a 237 percent increase from the 795,000 it drew in June 2004."
The full article can be found here.
( Apr 19 2005, 09:18:40 AM CEST )
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"Mozilla patches Firefox"
"Mozilla's browsers have been patched against a half dozen or more vulnerabilities, the open source group responsible for producing the popular Firefox and the older Mozilla suite said late last week."
The full article can be found here.
( Apr 19 2005, 09:16:39 AM CEST )
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Onfolio 2.0 with Mozilla Firefox integration
"New features in Onfolio 2.0 include: Integrated, fully-featured RSS feed reader; integration with the Mozilla Firefox browser; workgroup collaboration using shared Onfolio Collections; more flexible publishing options including structured Web reports and blog posting; complete Web site capture, multi-part article capture, and silent capture; Microsoft Outlook integration for email capture; searching in Onfolio for documents and link targets by content; searching for items by properties, and save searches as folders; and integration with Thomson ResearchSoft's EndNote 8."
The full article can be found here.
( Apr 19 2005, 09:15:33 AM CEST )
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Australia, go for it ...
"The lawyer said Australia should follow France and encourage the adoption of open source software. The country has migrated several of its government agencies -- including the police force -- to the office productivity suite OpenOffice.org."
The full article can be found here.
( Apr 19 2005, 09:10:56 AM CEST )
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"Lack of developers delays OpenOffice.org"
I won't provide numbers, but I can tell you that the following statement is for sure wrong or at least very misleading:
"Sun is still the largest contributor to the project with some 50 developers in Germany, followed by Novell with about 10 contributors, and only four active community developers."
Just count how many features have been developed by whom and you will find out yourself what the ratios are! I find it misleading to compare contributors with developers. The OpenOffice.org community has many contributors who could also be seen as developers. Many people are doing QA and localization work for example. Also there is no mentioning of the OpenOffice.org developers at Red Hat!?
Simon makes an interesting comment:
"Sun Microsystems' chief technology evangelist Simon Phipps acknowledged the challenges OpenOffice.org faces and put it down to its monolithic code base rather than Sun's contribution governance.
"For something that was originally written for Windows 3.1 and OS/2, the fact that it now runs on Linux and Solaris is a significant achievement," Phipps said.
Phipps said Sun welcomes contributions from both individuals and organizations that use the productivity suite, including big names Like IBM.
"Ask IBM why it uses OpenOffice but doesn't contribute to it," he said."
I also would love to see more features come from external developers, especially from those who sell OpenOffice.org as part of their products. It's also interesting to see who sponsored the last annual OpenOffice.org conference in Berlin.
The full article can be found here.
( Apr 19 2005, 07:56:49 AM CEST )
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