Wednesday July 23, 2008

Sun Java Communications Suite 6 - now with Convergence AJAX client

Jim Parkinson has just blogged about the availability of the new release from the Java Communications Suite.

Our messaging server is already well known for being rock solid and for it's great scalability.

The new release offers interesting new features for mobile messaging (LEMONADE support).

For me, as an end user in this case, the most interesting new feature is the web based mail and calendering client - Convergence.

If you are interested, you can find many more details in Jim's blog.

Posted by Malte Timmermann ( Jul 23 2008, 10:36:36 AM CEST ) Permalink Comments [0]

Thursday July 17, 2008

StarOffice 9 Beta 2 available!

StarOffice 9 is ready for beta testing.

If you want to give it a try, you can download it here. 

One of the biggest "features" is the native Mac support. This is something the people really wanted to have for a while now. You can find some interesting blog postings about the efforts on GullFOSS.

Some people might be more interested in the new PDF import, or the nice presenter console.

Writer learned a dual page view and has improved handling of notes.

Impress has native support for tables now, as defined in ODF 1.2.

Calc has some features for collaborative editing, a new solver tool and improved charting functionality.

You see - many improvements worth updating to the new version.

Posted by Malte Timmermann ( Jul 17 2008, 07:31:20 PM CEST ) Permalink Comments [0]