Erwin's StarOffice Tango

Erwin's StarOffice Tango
Erwin Tenhumberg's Insights into Open Source and Dancing
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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 ) Permalink

"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 ) Permalink Kommentare [1]

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 ) Permalink

"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 ) Permalink