Freitag Juli 22, 2005

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

Donnerstag Juli 21, 2005

TYPO3 now indexes OpenOffice.org Documents
"The powerful search engine now produces statistics about the terms entered. Editors can use this information to tailor their site to their visitors. The search engine also indexes new types of data, such as Microsoft Excel tables, Microsoft PowerPoint presentations and OpenOffice.org documents."
The full announcement can be foundhere.
( Jul 21 2005, 12:50:45 PM CEST ) Permalink

Montag Juli 18, 2005

51,000 CD's with OpenOffice.org distributed
"The Auvergne region (center of France) will distribute a CD containing several Open Source softwares to its students, OOo is on the CD with its documentation. This will be 51 000 cds distributed with note-books at schools in september 2005."
The full message can be found here.
( Jul 18 2005, 03:02:43 PM CEST ) Permalink

"Norwegian Minister: Proprietary Formats No Longer Acceptable"
"Without support for open standard formats, Microsoft will rapidly make itself irrelevant as supplier to both public sector, businesses and private persons, as they all have the need to communicate electronically with the government in the future."
The full article can be found here.
( Jul 18 2005, 11:05:28 AM CEST ) Permalink

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