Erwin's StarOffice Tango

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Montag November 19, 2007

OpenOffice.org home user and SMB support in French and German
Home users as well as small and medium businesses looking for OpenOffice.org should check out this new offering. It's now possible to buy support incident packs for OpenOffice.org for German and French. More languages might get added going forward.
( Nov 19 2007, 09:39:49 AM CET ) Permalink

Server-side PDF conversion with the StarOffice 8 Server
The StarOffice 8 Server has just been released. The StarOffice 8 Server is a flavor of the StarOffice software that has been optimized for server-side usage to do document conversion. Check out the features list yourself!
( Nov 19 2007, 09:37:04 AM CET ) Permalink

More money for the government employees due to open source
According to this German article, the labor union of the police in Berlin is unhappy with Windows and thus considers a switch to Linux. It's not 100% clear to me if the issues are on the desktop side or the server side, but apparently the labor union members are experiencing stability problems. From my point of view the most interesting part of the news is that the switch to open source is also considered to be a chance to pay the government employees a Christmas bonus again based on open source related savings.
( Nov 19 2007, 09:33:35 AM CET ) Permalink

Ubuntu for 160,000 students in Macedonia
According to this German article, about 160,000 students in Macedonia will get to use Ubuntu via PC's and thin clients. Actually, the software being used will be a localized version of the education flavor of Ubuntu called Edubuntu. Since Ubuntu includes OpenOffice.org, I guess these are also good news for OpenOffice.org and ODF.
( Nov 19 2007, 09:26:24 AM CET ) Permalink

Business Intelligence with OpenOffice.org
I just found the following news:
<"Christian Schieder of the Chemnitz University of Technology introduced the PalOOCa project. This acronym stands for the far-advanced integration of Palo in OpenOffice.org Calc. As an example for the good interaction between open and non-open source software served the Palo integration in Abacus, a successful ERP software with over 30,000 medium-sized customers.">
The full article can be found here.
( Nov 19 2007, 09:22:03 AM CET ) Permalink