Mittwoch Juni 29, 2005
Gone for two weeks
Since I will be gone for two weeks, my blog will be quiet. Stay tuned!
( Jun 29 2005, 09:59:29 PM CEST )
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Do you want to attend the OpenOffice.org Conference 2005?
If you are planning to attend the OpenOffice.org Conference 2005, please register here.
( Jun 29 2005, 11:45:14 AM CEST )
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Do you want to present at the OpenOffice.org Conference 2005?
If you are interested in doing a session at the OpenOffice.org Conference 2005, check out this website and submit your abstract.
( Jun 29 2005, 11:43:13 AM CEST )
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Would you like to sponsor the OpenOffice.org Conference 2005?
If you are interested in supporting and sponsoring the OpenOffice.org Conference 2005, check out this website.
( Jun 29 2005, 11:41:45 AM CEST )
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Montag Juni 27, 2005
Affordable laptops with StarOffice at six universities
"All laptops are powered by Intel microprocessors and come with Sun Microsystem StarOffice, which features word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing and database capabilities."
The full article can be found here.
( Jun 27 2005, 09:13:26 PM CEST )
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"Sun opens more middleware source"
"Company president Jonathan Schwartz said that in opening its code, Sun would create a community of developers using the APIs in products. Tackling the whole concept of Free Open Source Software (FOSS), Schwartz said his 'bias' is towards the 'free' aspect of the equation. "The most popular FOSS products in the world are free," he said, highlighting OpenOffice, Mozilla, Firefox and Linux.
"There is a social utility to free software," Schwartz said.
Less clear, though, was how Sun will turn its code giveaway into revenue. Appearing at JavaOne, Sun chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) Scott McNealy said simply it would be easier for Sun, along other Java community members, to make a little money on a lot of people in a large community than to monetize a small community."
The full article can be found here.
( Jun 27 2005, 06:59:52 AM CEST )
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Sonntag Juni 26, 2005
"Open Source Release For Sun's App Server"
"The company is expected to release the source code for its Java-based application server under a new open source license as it kicks off its JavaOne conference in San Francisco today."
The full article can be found here.
( Jun 26 2005, 08:07:30 AM CEST )
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Google "Summer of Code" includes 100+ desktop Linux projects
"The results include 24 from KDE, 12 from GNOME, 15 from GAIM, 10 each from OpenOffice.org and Mozilla, and many more."
The full article can be found here.
( Jun 26 2005, 08:01:07 AM CEST )
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"Open source strikes at Microsoft Office"
"The NeoOffice/J and ThinkFree releases are designed to improve compatibility with Microsoft's own document formats, but the release of KOffice 1.4 on Tuesday is a sign of things to come, with its support for the OASIS standard OpenDocument 1.0. Developers say KOffice is the first to fully implement OpenDocument, which was adopted by Oasis in late May.
OpenDocument will also be supported with OpenOffice 2.0, and it is likely that support in NeoOffice/J and other applications will not be far behind. OpenDocument is an XML-based format intended to present a standards-based challenge to Microsoft's dominant, proprietary Office formats. It supports text, spreadsheet and presentation documents; Novell, Sun, IBM and others have pledged to support it in their productivity software.
KOffice 1.4, released for Linux and Unix, will continue to use the native KOffice format while OpenDocument goes through testing. The next KOffice release will use OpenDocument as its native format, developers said."
The full article can be found here.
( Jun 26 2005, 08:00:04 AM CEST )
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Open Source at Sun
"Because it'll ensure those without the economic wherewithal to pay for it will still consider using it. Companies that suffered from piracy a decade ago now know the lesson well - piracy is a good thing so long as the pirates are folks who could never afford your products. So stop calling them pirates, call them users. Free software has no pirates. As I've said forever, there's value in volume, even if you're not paid for it.
Do I worry about enterprises or corporate customers taking OpenSolaris and not acquiring a subscription to someone's (hopefully our) service contract? No, not in the least. Do you really think a hospital, or an air traffic control authority or a Minister from an African nation would run their institution on unsupported software? No. No way.
Are we guaranteed to get that business? Nope. But we are guaranteed the opportunity will be greater than if we kept Solaris locked up. And I'd rather get 20% of a business that's planetary in scope, than 100% of a business with 17 customers. Like I said, there's value in volume. (And I haven't even touched upon the impact of open sourcing on innovation.)"
This was found on Jonathan's blog.
( Jun 26 2005, 07:11:51 AM CEST )
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Freitag Juni 24, 2005
"Italian lawyers in love with open source"
" Most of the time, open source supporters think of lawyers as a crowd of hungry vultures, throwing patents and cease-and-desist letters at innocent hackers. However, in the province of Foggia, Southern Italy, two small groups of lawyers have turned themselves into open source evangelists.
What? Did hell just freeze over? No, it's just common sense. The long-term availability and privacy of all legal documents deserve the highest possible guarantees. Only non-proprietary file formats like OpenDocument, the default format in OpenOffice.org 2.0, will always be legally accessible with any software program. Proprietary software, if loaded with DRM functionality, may silently track file modification and exchanges and automatically report it to third parties. So much for attorney/client privilege."
The full article can be found here.
( Jun 24 2005, 05:16:39 PM CEST )
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Solaris strong at LinuxTag 2005
I'm currently doing booth duty at the LinuxTag 2005 event in Karlsruhe, Germany. I'm surprised and amazed to see how strong the interest in Solaris is!!! We are quickly running out of our Solaris DVD kits and Solaris t-shirts! Everybody seems to be very open to Solaris and many people are anxious to play with DTrace and the container technology. I have the feeling that most people used Solaris in the past, played with Linux for a while and are now excited about the new features in Solaris 10 as well as the fact that Solaris has been open sourced as OpenSolaris. I guess we (Sun) should add some kind of "reviewers guide" to the DVD kit, so that users who are new to Solaris can quickly get started with the cool stuff like DTrace and containers.
( Jun 24 2005, 09:24:51 AM CEST )
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Undersecretary Vogt on Open Standards
"Undersecretary Vogt pointed out the importance of interoperability and open standards. For public authorities too open standards such as the new OASIS document format OpenDocument, currently used in the open-source Office Suite KOffice 1.4 and about to be used in the coming one OpenOffice 2.0 played an important role, she observed."
The full article can be found here.
( Jun 24 2005, 09:21:56 AM CEST )
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OpenOffice.org training in Durban
"The company will offer Linux administration courses and OpenOffice.org courses at the Durban facility."
The full article can be found here.
( Jun 24 2005, 09:05:40 AM CEST )
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"Indian OpenOffice roll-out continues"
"This week the government started distributing CDs in Hindi, according to R.K.V.S. Raman, a researcher at the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, an organisation involved in the production of the CD. The initiative has been funded by the Indian government, which hopes to encourage the use of computers. It plans to distribute 3.5 million copies of the Hindi Language CDs."
The full article can be found here.
( Jun 24 2005, 09:03:29 AM CEST )
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