Dienstag Juli 31, 2007

eWEEK reviews Sun ODF plug-in for Microsoft Office
eWEEK has just reviewed the Sun ODF plug-in for Microsoft Office. Apparently they really liked the plug-in. Their summary says: "Sun's ODF plug-in can play an important role in broadening interoperability between OpenOffice.org and Microsoft Office." Check out Chhandomay's blog for details!
( Jul 31 2007, 10:45:46 AM CEST ) Permalink Kommentare [1]

Dienstag Juli 24, 2007

Another article about Ant and OpenOffice.org
Here is another article about Ant and OpenOffice.org. The author explains how to convert documents to PDF using Ant.
( Jul 24 2007, 10:09:38 PM CEST ) Permalink

Donnerstag Juli 19, 2007

PDF signing tool for OpenOffice.org
According to this German article, the City of Vienna created a tool for signing PDF files created with OpenOffice.org. The "PortableSigner" tool can be found at SourceForge.
( Jul 19 2007, 05:02:02 PM CEST ) Permalink Kommentare [1]

Dutch city Heerenveen saves 135,000 Euro with OpenOffice.org
According to this Dutch article, the Dutch city Heerenveen saves 135,000 Euro with OpenOffice.org. OpenOffice.org has been installed on 100 of the 350 computers already. Users are ready to use OpenOffice.org after one day of training.
( Jul 19 2007, 04:59:20 PM CEST ) Permalink Kommentare [1]

Yet another PC bundling OpenOffice.org
Check this out! In this case it's a subscription based offering.
( Jul 19 2007, 03:10:02 PM CEST ) Permalink Kommentare [1]

PC with OpenOffice.org pre-installed at Wal-Mart
I guess you have all seen it by now, but thought I should still mention it here anyway, Wal-Mart will sell a PC for $298 that comes with OpenOffice.org 2.2 pre-installed. Pretty cool! This should give the adoption of OpenOffice.org and the OpenDocument Format (ODF) another boost!
( Jul 19 2007, 02:25:48 PM CEST ) Permalink

Samstag Juli 14, 2007

The Sun ODF Plugin turns out to be very popular
As you can read here, the Sun ODF Plugin was downloaded more than 13,000 times in just one week! Very impressive! Oh, and professional users can get enterprise support for the Sun ODF Plugin from Sun. Thus, the ODF Plugin is ready for production use!
( Jul 14 2007, 11:25:39 AM CEST ) Permalink

OpenOffice.org pre-installed on $250-laptop from Asus
The $250-laptop Asus Eee PC apparently has OpenOffice.org pre-installed. You can find details about the laptop at NotebookReview.com. Very cool to see Linux and OpenOffice.org being pre-installed on laptops these days!
( Jul 14 2007, 10:38:19 AM CEST ) Permalink Kommentare [1]

Freitag Juli 13, 2007

l'Ecole Centrale Marseille (Central School Marseille) evaluating OpenOffice.org
According to this article this French article, "l'Ecole Centrale Marseille" (Central School Marseille) is evaulating OpenOffice.org and put together a study. According to the article it's expected that the study will lead to a migration to OpenOffice.org.
( Jul 13 2007, 10:58:25 AM CEST ) Permalink

Italian parliament adopts Linux (and probably OpenOffice.org and/or ODF)
According to this German article, this French article, and this Italian article, the Italian chamber of deputies (one part of the Italian parliament) will deploy Linux on the 3,500 computers of the congressmen/deputies and expects to save 3 million Euro. Considering that Linux typically comes with ODF implementations like OpenOffice.org and KOffice, it's quite likely that this move also includes the adoption of OpenOffice.org and/or ODF.
( Jul 13 2007, 10:49:54 AM CEST ) Permalink

Donnerstag Juli 12, 2007

"Government of Japan Embraces Open Software Standards"
Found here.
( Jul 12 2007, 06:05:24 PM CEST ) Permalink

Positive Sun Weblog Publisher Review
Check out Chhandomay's blog for details!
( Jul 12 2007, 06:02:16 PM CEST ) Permalink

Dienstag Juli 10, 2007

Many German schools will switch to OpenOffice.org
According to this German Computerwoche article, a survey conducted with 1,200 German schools revealed, that Microsoft is still the dominant software provider for German schools, but close to 25% of the interviewed schools plan a switch to OpenOffice.org and StarOffice.
( Jul 10 2007, 08:37:14 PM CEST ) Permalink Kommentare [1]

Montag Juli 09, 2007

New Aqua developer snapshot available
In case you had not noticed, a new Aqua developer snapshot of OpenOffice.org for the Mac has been made available. Details and a screenshot can be found at Eric Bachard's blog.
( Jul 09 2007, 06:13:05 AM CEST ) Permalink Kommentare [1]

Dienstag Juli 03, 2007

Flash demo of OpenOffice.org API plug-in
The NetBeans folks just created a first Flash demo about the OpenOffice.org API Plug-in for NetBeans. Check out Juergen Schmidt's blog entry for the link and further details.
( Jul 03 2007, 10:47:32 PM CEST ) Permalink