Erwin's StarOffice Tango

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Mittwoch Mai 18, 2005

"Lightning lead developer Mike Shaver interview" (Calendar)
"I don't think we're going to do free/busy in the 1.0 plan, but I think it's an addition that makes a lot of sense for a follow-on release. That's an important part of group scheduling and calendar sharing, and it's an area in which a calendar program can really make a user's life easier.

Calendar sharing will be present to varying degrees. With a CalDAV server, you should be able to subscribe to shared calendars, subject to the constraints of the server itself. For single-writer/multiple-reader webcal, things just Just Work, as they do with Sunbird and iCal and other such ICS-over-HTTP calendar tools."

The full article can be found here.
( Mai 18 2005, 06:30:05 AM CEST ) Permalink

Interview with Tom Goguen about OpenSolaris
"As Sun counts down to the June 30 deadline for releasing the full Solaris 10 codeset to Open Source, Integration Developer News spoke with the Sun exec responsible for the hand-over. IDN 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 interview can be found here.
( Mai 18 2005, 06:15:17 AM CEST ) Permalink

"NetBeans 4.1 focused on open source mobile development"
"In just six months, as it has gone from Version 3.x to Version 4.1, the software has been downloaded 1 million times, he told ZDNet, because "NetBeans makes developing mobile apps just brain-dead simple. We can get people building an application in 10 minutes." It does this through a visual development environment for mobility and support for web applications and services as well as J2ME and J2EE."
The full article can be found here.
( Mai 18 2005, 06:13:45 AM CEST ) Permalink

StarOffice in Irish Schools
"The National Centre for Technology in Education (NCTE) has signed a distribution agreement with Sun Microsystems to give more than 4,000 Irish schools access to Sun's StarOffice7 software. A total of over 3,200 primary schools and 720 secondary schools, comprising over 50,000 teachers and 783,000 students, will now have use of the Sun's word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing and database desktop software. This agreement brings Sun's total StarOffice software donations worldwide to an estimated value of more than USD7 billion."
The article can be found here.
( Mai 18 2005, 06:02:50 AM CEST ) Permalink