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Dienstag Juni 03, 2008

"Polish Walmart" selling laptops with OpenOffice.org pre-installed
I just received a link to this Polish offer. A Polish store similar to Walmart is selling a laptop with Kubuntu and OpenOffice.org pre-installed. Cool! I guess this means even more OpenOffice.org and ODF users!
( Jun 03 2008, 08:49:43 PM CEST ) Permalink

French hospital migrates to OpenOffice.org
According to this French article, the French hospital of Thiers is migrating its 150 desktops to OpenOffice.org in order to spend money on training instead of licenses.
( Jun 03 2008, 01:14:40 PM CEST ) Permalink

Millions of copies of OpenOffice.org distributed by Asustek
I just read this article, and found the following statement particularly interesting:
"The company, which had previously estimated that it would sell 5 million Eee PCs this year, forecasts low-cost PC sales are set to hit 20-30 million units globally in 2009, Asustek's Chief Executive Jerry Shen told reporters."
Considering that the Eee PCs ship with either OpenOffice.org, StarOffice or StarSuite, these are great news! Last month there were close to 7 Million downloads of OpenOffice.org (not counting Linux distros, magazine CDs, etc.), but having major hardware vendors like Asustek shipping Millions of laptops with OpenOffice.org pre-installed is definitely even more helpful from an OpenOffice.org market share and ODF adoption point of view.
( Jun 03 2008, 11:45:05 AM CEST ) Permalink

Munich released template management software as Open Source
As can be read in this German article, the City of Munich just released their template management software for OpenOffice.org as Open Source under the European Union Public License (EUPL). It's great to see that government organizations start to embrace the open source development model!
( Jun 03 2008, 08:09:39 AM CEST ) Permalink

Acer laptop with OpenOffice.org pre-installed
Cool! The "Acer Aspire one" is yet another mainstream laptop that comes with OpenOffice.org pre-installed:
"The Aspire one series comes preinstalled with Linpus™ Linux® Lite version or Windows XP® Home. Additional software such as OpenOffice 2.3, one Mail, Messenger, Acer eRecovery Management, Acer Launch Manager, Adobe® Reader®, McAfee® Internet Security Suite, Microsoft® Office Trial 2007 are also installed5."
Found here.
( Jun 03 2008, 08:05:33 AM CEST ) Permalink Kommentare [1]