Erwin's StarOffice Tango

Erwin's StarOffice Tango
Erwin Tenhumberg's Insights into Open Source and Dancing
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Montag Juli 25, 2005

StarOffice Download Improvement
"By introducing the MCI/Akamai solution, Sun customers visiting the SDLC Web portal will now be able to more quickly and reliably download software supporting a broad range of Sun applications for enterprises, including its StarOffice Productivity suite, Solaris operating system and Java-based programs, some of which take up the storage capacity of an entire CD."
The full article can be found here.
( Jul 25 2005, 12:15:06 PM CEST ) Permalink

KDE Plugin in the Official OpenOffice.org Packages
"A year and a half after launching the KDE.OpenOffice.org Integration Project, the KDE plugin with the Native Widget Framework has become part of the official OpenOffice.org development packages. Developer snapshot m118 is the first of the towards-2.0 milestones that contains it."
The full announcement can be found here.
( Jul 25 2005, 12:09:12 PM CEST ) Permalink

OpenOffice.org 2.0 Pre-Release Review
"Admittedly, Openoffice still can't match the vast range and depth of features found in Microsoft Office, but as Microsoft itself often says, 80 per cent of Office users only use 20 per cent of its features.

With that in mind, there's no doubt version 2 is more than powerful enough for most home and business users and can certainly give Microsoft a run for its money, especially since it's free."

The full article can be found here.
( Jul 25 2005, 11:58:56 AM CEST ) Permalink Kommentare [1]

OpenOffice.org included in Computer-On-a-Stick
"FingerGear, the consumer brand of biometrics leader Bionopoly LLC, announced today the release of its groundbreaking Computer-On-a-Stick(TM) Flash Drive. The Computer-On-a-Stick is a bootable USB 2.0 Flash Drive that is the first flash device to feature a complete onboard Operating System. The device also features the OpenOffice Productivity Suite, along with many of the most commonly used desktop and Internet applications."
The full announcement can be found here.
( Jul 25 2005, 11:55:26 AM CEST ) Permalink