Friday January 02, 2009 The First Links of 2009
- Profile: Terry Pratchett
That's SIR Terry Pratchett from now on. I wonder which town he'll pick as his "of"? Great choice for a knighthood, combining genius, philanthropy and an adoring public. - Pioneer of cyberspace honoured
Congratulations to Wendy. There ain't nothin' like a dame. - Predictions for 2009 - Paul Murphy
Some interesting insights here - see especially Sun and IBM. I really hope we'll be able to prove him wrong. - The 10 Coolest Open Source Products Of 2008
Top of the list? OpenOffice.org 3.0 (the first page of the sequence is the title slide).
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( Jan 02 2009, 01:35:00 AM PST )
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Happy New Year, Simon. I followed your Paul Murphy link, and found this one to be a bit astounding:
“The 2008 Chutzpah in IT Marketing Awards”
The 2008 Midas Memorial Award: IBM z10 versus 1,500 Sun Fire X2100 M2
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=1330
Posted by Carolyn on January 02, 2009 at 02:50 AM PST #
FUD warning (m4rbux): ""Only two companies will have office suites with ODF 1.1 read/write support, Microsoft Office and StarOffice. Sun jerked the ODF 1.1 write support out of OOo 3.0, which can only write to what is called "ODF 1.2," which is dramatically different from ODF 1.1. StarOffice users can choose whether to write to ODF 1.1 or ODF 1.2."
Posted by Roy Schestowitz on January 03, 2009 at 03:34 AM PST #
Roy: Where are you reading that from? Since StarOffice and OpenOffice.org are the same codebase, whatever is in one will be in the other. The Load/Save preferences dialog in my copy of OO.o 3.0 has an option to force the ODF read/write to be v1.0/1.1 or v1.2. So it appears that's not even FUD, just a straight untruth by a detractor.
Posted by Simon Phipps on January 03, 2009 at 07:13 AM PST #
Simon. It's a FUD warning. It'll come later.
Posted by Roy Schestowitz on January 06, 2009 at 02:09 AM PST #