Erwin's StarOffice Tango

Erwin's StarOffice Tango
Erwin Tenhumberg's Insights into Open Source and Dancing
... or why Open Competition matters

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Dienstag August 16, 2005

OpenSolaris is "kool"
I just became aware of the following interesting LinuxWorld report:

"They were blown away. Then things would come back to cost... they knew that the Sun TCO was lower than RHEL, but they couldn't convince their powers-that-be... so I'd put a Solaris DVD in their hand and tell them that they were free to run it in production, no strings, no BS, call us when you'd like a support contract. At that point some of them almost started crying. It was great. I talked to one guy that had RHEL deployeed, couldn't tolerate the reliablity problems they were having, and were paying more than $22,000 for support... and that didn't include priority phone support, just access to the Red Hat Network. I talked to a gentleman at Siemen's who was desprate to stay with Sun and really left ready to fight. I had almost two dozen people like this."

The full report can be found here.
( Aug 16 2005, 08:37:30 AM CEST ) Permalink

Perl module for OASIS OpenDocument at CPAN
I just received the following information via email:

"The OpenDocument-compliant version of Perl OpenOffice::OODoc (2.003) is now available at CPAN

http://search.cpan.org/dist/OpenOffice-OODoc

The same API supports both the OOo 1.0 and the ODF. With some care, it's now possible to write programs that simultaneously deal with several documents with different formats."
( Aug 16 2005, 07:07:50 AM CEST ) Permalink