Erwin's StarOffice Tango

Erwin's StarOffice Tango
Erwin Tenhumberg's Insights into Open Source and Dancing
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Freitag Mai 06, 2005

"Countdown to OpenSolaris – An Enterprise IT FAQ"
"As Sun counts down to the June 30 deadline for releasing the full Solaris 10 codeset to Open Source, Open Enterprise Trends spoke with the Sun exec responsible for the hand-over. OET asked Sun’s Operating Platforms Group vice president Tom Goguen key questions submitted by IT and OEM execs about how OpenSolaris might change their IT shops, the way they deploy and upgrade software, and the way they work with Sun."
The full article can be found here.
( Mai 06 2005, 07:58:14 AM CEST ) Permalink

"REVIEW: OpenOffice a strong competitor"
"Another new and nifty feature, not found in Office, gives you the option of saving a file as a PDF, the ubiquitous document format. To do the same in Office, you need to install Adobe Acrobat or one of its knockoffs.

Just as in the previous version, most controls will be familiar to those who have used Office. An example: the menu headings in Write, OpenOffice's word processor, are identical to those in Word except that "Tools" and "Table," which are next to one another, have switched places. Open the programs side by side and you will be hard pressed to tell which is which."

The full article can be found here.
( Mai 06 2005, 07:54:55 AM CEST ) Permalink