Mittwoch April 30, 2008

"Wiki page for OpenOffice adoption in Malaysia"
I just became aware of this "Wiki page for OpenOffice adoption in Malaysia". Very cool! I hope I'll soon find some time to copy the names to the OpenOffice.org "Market Share Analysis" wiki page and/or "Major OpenOffice.org Deployments" wiki page.
( Apr 30 2008, 01:40:03 PM CEST ) Permalink

Dienstag April 29, 2008

ODF Development using Perl, Python, Java, PHP, Ruby, etc.
In case you're a developer and are looking for libraries simplifying ODF development with technologies like Perl, Python, Java, PHP, Ruby, etc., you should check out this summary of ODF tools and libraries. BTW, most of these efforts are open source projects. Thus, if you have a little bit of spare time, feel free to join the projects!
( Apr 29 2008, 07:48:44 PM CEST ) Permalink

Freitag April 25, 2008

ODFDOM to become available in May 2008
I already mentioned jOpenDocument today. Here is another piece of news for developers. A first preview release of ODFDOM will become available in May 2008. In case you don't know what ODFDOM is, check out the ODFDOM wiki page on OpenOffice.org.
( Apr 25 2008, 02:39:24 PM CEST ) Permalink

"A pure Java library for OASIS Open Document files manipulation"
More and more ODF tools and libraries are emerging. I just came across jOpenDocument which sounds promising. On the homepage it describes itself as "A pure Java library for OASIS Open Document files manipulation". Developers should also keep their eyes open for more news from the OpenOffice.org ODF Toolkit Project. In addition, there are ODF tools available for Perl developers and for PHP developers (check out this and this). BTW, if you know of any tools for ODF development or applications supporting ODF, make sure they are listed at opendocument.xml.org.
( Apr 25 2008, 10:41:33 AM CEST ) Permalink Kommentare [1]

ODF Seminar for Municipalities
On May 19th there will be an ODF seminar for municipalities in Schoten (Belgium). More details can be found here.
( Apr 25 2008, 10:27:38 AM CEST ) Permalink

Mittwoch April 23, 2008

City of Munich and German Federal Foreign Office start collaboration
According to this German article, the City of Munich and the German Federal Foreign Office have started to collaborate on the implementation of their open source and open standards strategies. I would not be surprised if other organizations decided to join the "alliance" as well. Anyway, very cool to see government organizations collaborate regarding the usage of open source and open standards.
( Apr 23 2008, 04:38:39 PM CEST ) Permalink

Dienstag April 22, 2008

ODF now national standard in South Africa
Great news from South Africa:
"Open Document Format (ODF) has been approved as a South African national standard by the South African Bureau of Standards (SABS).
According to Bob Jolliffe, of the Department of Science and Technology, ODF was approved on Friday last week, after a long evaluation process by the SABS department dedicated to standards assessment, Stanza (South African Standards)."
Found here.
( Apr 22 2008, 02:34:52 PM CEST ) Permalink

ODF development effort for KOffice sponsored
According to this announcement, the Dutch NLnet foundation decided to sponsor the ODF development effort for KOffice. Great news for the larger ODF ecosystem!
( Apr 22 2008, 02:31:43 PM CEST ) Permalink

Mittwoch April 16, 2008

Doing a mail merge via API
I lately talk quite a bit to ISVs about the integration of StarOffice, OpenOffice.org and ODF. One topic that frequently comes up is mail merge. Thus, I thought it can't hurt to mention in my blog how a mail merge can be done via API. In case you are interested in this topic, you should take a look at this code snippet and this IDL reference. In this context, you also might want to check out the SugarCRM extension on java.net.
( Apr 16 2008, 05:19:59 PM CEST ) Permalink

Donnerstag April 10, 2008

German portfolio analysis software supports OpenOffice.org
According to this German announcement, the German portfolio analysis software "Strategie-Portfolio" from the company "Aplan A" supports OpenOffice.org. It's great to see that an increasing number of ISV's is adding OpenOffice.org support to their products!
( Apr 10 2008, 12:20:50 PM CEST ) Permalink

German ERP software vendor adds OpenOffice.org support
I just came across this German press release. The ERP systems NVinity now also supports OpenOffice.org for doing mail merges and printing invoices. Yet another product that I can add to the OpenOffice.org Solutions wiki page.
( Apr 10 2008, 12:17:40 PM CEST ) Permalink

Mittwoch April 09, 2008

HP shipping laptops with OpenOffice.org pre-installed
According to this HP product page, HP is shipping low-cost laptops with Linux and OpenOffice.org pre-installed. I guess, soon all major laptop vendors will have an OpenOffice.org option in their portfolio.
( Apr 09 2008, 08:54:34 AM CEST ) Permalink Kommentare [1]

Spanish low-cost notebook including OpenOffice.org
According to this Spanish article, yet another low-cost notebook including a Fedora-based Linux distro as well as OpenOffice.org will be sold for about 300 Euro. With more and more hardware vendors shipping computers with OpenOffice.org pre-installed, I'm convinced that the OpenOffice.org market share will grow quickly over the next few months and years.
( Apr 09 2008, 08:50:13 AM CEST ) Permalink

OpenOffice.org on 41,000 computers
"At the same time, technology chief Stephen Wilson announced the department will install a free alternative to Microsoft's Office suite, referred to in industry circles as OpenOffice, on 41,000 computers due to be distributed to schools across the state by the end of 2008. "For the first time we're going to install OpenOffice on every computer under our Technology 4 Learning programme," he says."
Found here.
( Apr 09 2008, 08:18:36 AM CEST ) Permalink

Dienstag April 08, 2008

Lightning 0.8 is out
Just in case you did not notice, Lightning 0.8 is out. I like it a lot! For example the new task mode, is pretty cool!
( Apr 08 2008, 02:47:39 PM CEST ) Permalink Kommentare [3]