SUN NEWS
Update: Sun Dangles Prize Money over Open-Source Efforts
IDG News, Chris Kanaracus; December 04, 2007
http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/12/04/Sun-dangles-prize-money-over-open-source_1.html
Sun unveils details of its new award program meant to spur growth in the open-source community. Writing on his blog, Sun open-source officer Simon Phipps explains, "We'll be providing a substantial prize purse and working with the communities involved to develop the approach that works best.” The program involves the OpenSolaris, GlassFish, OpenJDK, OpenSPARC, NetBeans and OpenOffice.org communities, and “is a great opportunity for members of these open-source communities to take their passion and creativity and push the innovation boundaries,” according to Phipps.
OpenOffice.org 2.3 Impresses
eWeek, Tiffany Maleshefski; November 28, 2007
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2224467,00.asp
eWeek reviews the latest version of OpenOffice.org, version 2.3. The upgrade, which runs on seven operating platforms, including Solaris and Windows, offers improved upgrade paths for Microsoft Office users, new security features, and updates to the suite’s word processing, spreadsheet, presentation and database applications.
