Erwin's StarOffice Tango

Erwin's StarOffice Tango
Erwin Tenhumberg's Insights into Open Source and Dancing
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Freitag Juli 22, 2005

StarOffice at Banca Popolare di Milano
"Practical considerations often make it tough for corporations to consider enterprisewide Linux deployments. For instance, Banca Popolare di Milano is rolling out 4,500 SUSE Linux desktops with a Mozilla Web browser, a Web client for Lotus Notes, Sun's StarOffice suite and a Java-based custom suite of banking applications to its 500 branch offices."
(Found here.)
( Jul 22 2005, 01:10:49 PM CEST ) Permalink

KDE on OpenSolaris
"KDE 3.4.1 is the first modern desktop environment being compiled, packaged and working fully on the OpenSolaris platform. The work has been mainly done by our friend Stefan Teleman."
The full article can be found here.
( Jul 22 2005, 01:07:12 PM CEST ) Permalink

OpenOffice.org and MySQL
"Did you know that you can connect the OpenOffice.org office suite to a MySQL database? By combining the power of these two open source applications you can do things like generating personalized sales letters from the customer data stored on your servers. Let's walk through the process using OOo's database wizard."
The full article can be found here.
( Jul 22 2005, 01:04:21 PM CEST ) Permalink Kommentare [1]

StarOffice at Beaumont Hospital
This is a very interesting study about Beaumont Hospital's migration to an open source-based IT infrastructure.
( Jul 22 2005, 01:01:48 PM CEST ) Permalink

"Sun plans to make all its software free"
I just found this: "Sun Microsystems president and COO Jonathan Schwartz on Thursday cited the company's plans to eventually offer all of its software for free as a way to build communities around its technologies."

See also Jonathan's latest blog entry!
( Jul 22 2005, 12:56:47 PM CEST ) Permalink