Freitag Juli 15, 2005

Sun 'Open-Sources' Its Authentication Technology
"Sun also announced it has created an OpenSSO community Web site. OpenSSO is designed to provide developers with project information and resources to foster discussion and facilitate participation in the community, including: roadmaps, FAQs, documentation, tutorials, sample code and mailing lists.

Initial source code will be available beginning in the fourth quarter of 2005, with full release of OpenSSO in spring 2006 under the under the Open Source Initiative-approved Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL). Sun also uses the CDDL license for its OpenSolaris project."

The full article can be found here.
( Jul 15 2005, 06:56:47 AM CEST ) Permalink

"And then there were three (three open source J2EE servers)"
"While the move won't have too much impact on the current crop of J2EE servers (both commercial and open source), the effects of GlassFish could be felt once certification testing for Java EE 5 starts and GlassFish turns out to be both the first Java EE 5-certified server out the door (which I'm guessing it will be since Sun routinely beats all other offerings to the punch on such certification) as well as the first open sourced Java EE 5 server out the door."
The full article can be found here.
( Jul 15 2005, 06:54:12 AM CEST ) Permalink

Sun Microsystems Completes Tarantella Acquisition
"Acquisition Reinforces Commitment to an Open Source Desktop and Evolution of More Manageable, Secure and Cost Effective Desktop Solutions"
The full article can be found here.
( Jul 15 2005, 06:38:39 AM CEST ) Permalink

Vienna adopts OpenOffice.org
"The Viennese city councilor Rudi Schicker today presented Wienux, the Linux variant designed for use by the city authorities. Today within the framework of an information event employees of the municipal administration, in line with the policy according to which they are "each free to decide" which operating system on offer they want to use, were able to try out and find out about Wienux and OpenOffice."
The full article can be found here.
( Jul 15 2005, 06:35:22 AM CEST ) Permalink

"Opposition to Microsoft XML patent mounts"
"While South African open source advocates were last week lodging their objection to a patent held by Microsoft on the manipulation and presentation of word processor data using XML, activists on the other side of the globe were doing the same."
The full article can be found here.
( Jul 15 2005, 06:28:48 AM CEST ) Permalink

"OpenOffice.org's third international conference announced"
"The conference is being organised by the Slovenian and Italian OOo project teams. The first part of the program will cover topics such as development and OpenOffice.org in education, for those interested in the community and the project itself, whereas the last part of the conference will be focused on the end-users and the use of OpenOffice.org in public administration and enterprises."
The full article can be found here.
( Jul 15 2005, 06:26:31 AM CEST ) Permalink

"Spice up your presentations with OpenOffice.org Impress"
"This article will show you how to implement some advanced features of Impress. While all the minute particulars have been covered thoroughly in Impress tutorials, my purpose here is to encourage you to star in your own show, while your slide show serves a supporting role."
The full article can be found here.
( Jul 15 2005, 06:24:30 AM CEST ) Permalink Kommentare [1]

"What New Users Need to Know About OpenOffice.org"
"To orient themselves to OpenOffice.org, new users need to know its interface shortcomings and the limits of its on-line help. They also need to know the logic of its interface design and the importance of styles and templates in an efficient work flow. The more they know beforehand, the better the chance is that their first encounters with OpenOffice.org will go smoothly."
The full article can be found here.
( Jul 15 2005, 06:21:12 AM CEST ) Permalink

"Bulgarian cities adopting open source in municipalities"
"Municipal computers have been migrated to the free office suite OpenOffice.org and Mozilla Firefox."
The full article can be found here.
( Jul 15 2005, 06:15:46 AM CEST ) Permalink

I'm back ...
I'm back from my two-week trip to Norway. Thus, I will resume my blogging about StarOffice and open source.
( Jul 15 2005, 06:14:05 AM CEST ) Permalink