staroffice on SWiK

Diplomarbeiten mit Star- und OpenOffice

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:52:31 -0700

OpenOffice.org Community Forum

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 06:18:29 -0700

Mutual support system for OpenOffice.org - looks a good thing. Raising the expectation that help will be available raises the usability of OpenOffice.org, possibly above commercial competitors.

Google Pack

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 06:04:26 -0800

LinuxDevCenter.com -- Bristol Switches to StarOffice

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:15:36 -0800

XForms

ÜberSicht - OpenOffice.org-Wiki

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 15:35:53 -0800

Press Release: IBM Joins OpenOffice.org Community

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 12:48:55 -0800

OpenOffice.org: The Open Office Suite

StarOffice 8

Thu, 11 Oct 2007 22:14:04 -0700

StarOffice 8

Thu, 11 Oct 2007 22:02:49 -0700

Could Your Ecosystem be my Jungle?

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 09:34:14 -0700

I don’t know how you visualize ecosystems, for me they resemble a picture of a jungle with lots of nurishing water, beautiful plants, colorful birds and some dangerous snakes lurking on trees.

The newest take on the multitude of products derived from OpenOffice.org is to call it an ecosystem. While Sun Microsystem thinks the multiple distributions of OpenOffice.org are an ecosystem, I often feel lost in the Jungle that is. Lets list the well known distributions:

OpenOffice.org - the “Original”
StarOffice - the commercial version from Sun Micosystems
StarSuite - a sun distribution targeted at the Asian market
StarOffice from Google - a free commercial (?) distribution
OpenOffice.org Novell Edition - free version with new developments by Novell and in the pipeline for integration into the “Original”
NeoOffice - a distribution with integration into Mac OS X Aqua UI, also contains some Novell additions
Retro Office - a distribution from the NeoOffice project, adding some of the Novell derived integration but not the Aqua UI integration
… various commercial distributions that sell the office suite with minor alterations and support plans

The jungle becomes more dense if you consider that Open Office calls its development steps “release”, while Sun counts Star Office in “version.” I find it also confusing that Sun Microsystems does offer support with its commercial Star Office but also offers support plans for Open Office.

I do welcome various distributions of the same core open source base. However, what confuses me is the product strategy of Sun. Wouldn’t it be much easier if they offered a commercial OpenOffice.org Plus packages with the add ons that can’t be licensed under open source licenses? This would simplify the value for the buyer and unify the support plan offering. It would also put the power of Sun’s advertising behind the whole project and put more mindshare into Open Office, while still retaining Sun’s ability to make money from its work.

Passing time on Singapore Airlines

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 14:13:55 -0700

This year’s Java One Conference was held in Australia and some of the sun engineers where in for a surprise. The airplane offered StarOffice in the displays in the back of the seats. StarOffice the commercial version of OpenOffice.org. The application allowed to open and save files from a USB device. Ain’t that cool?

inACCESS>>Open Source Software and Training Materials

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 06:37:47 -0700

OpenOffice.org: Home

Fri, 31 Aug 2007 19:23:27 -0700

StarOffice added to Google pack

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 05:19:35 -0700

Google pack has added StarOffice 8 to its line of essential applications. StarOffice is the commercial version of OpenOffice.org produced by Sun Microsystems, adding non free elements such as fonts and spell check library. You can buy StarOffice for $70 for a single license from Sun Microsystems, while Google gives it away.

This addition of Sun products to the Google pack stems from the Multi Year Strategic Agreement between Sun Microsystems and Google, reached in October 2005. The installer includes also a Java runtime environment, used by some components of StarOffice and on the list of software components Sun likes to distribute.

Google Pack

Tue, 14 Aug 2007 13:26:13 -0700

google pack

Google Pack integriert StarOffice statt OpenOffice

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 03:27:05 -0700

Google und Sun haben einen neuen Schritt ihrer Partnerschaft angekündigt. Ab sofort enthält das Google Pack StarOffice – und nicht wie von vielen erwartet das komplett quelloffene OpenOffice.

StarOffice 8

Sun, 12 Aug 2007 21:27:39 -0700

OpenOffice.org

Fri, 13 Jul 2007 11:32:12 -0700

software (plugins) to enable working with StarOffice documents

Passing time on Singapore Airlines

Thu, 17 May 2007 12:18:28 -0700

Plugin ODF / ODT para Microsoft Word

Fri, 23 Feb 2007 04:41:59 -0800

Microsoft ha vuelto ha llegar tarde. Los formatos abiertos de documentos basados en XML ya están aquí y han venido para quedarse. ODF (Open Document Format) llegó primero siendo un estándar oficial de OASIS desde Mayo de 2005 y estándar ISO desde Mayo de 2006. En Diciembre de 2006 Office OpenXML (OOXML) se aprueba oficialmente como estándar ECMA y empieza los trámites para intentar también convertirse en un estándar ISO.

La realidad es que por motivos de interoperabilidad los usuarios no pueden esperar más y han reclamado plugins de ODF para Microsoft Word, y también para Excel y PowerPoint. Las buenas noticias es que los usuarios de Word ya tienen al menos dos opciones:

Esto deja claro las prioridades de Microsoft: primero el Word, luego el formato, y de Sun: primero el formato, luego las aplicaciones OpenOffice / StarOffice / Word

Respecto al formato ODF yo veo las siguientes ventajas:

Lleva en el mercado mucho más tiempo y por tanto es el estándar de facto
La especificación ISO es de unas 600 páginas frente a las 6000 páginas de OOXML
ODF es un formato XML más maduro y limpio que no tiene necesidades de compatibilidad con formatos binarios.
Los gobiernos y entidades públicas ya han apostado por ODF y han constituido ODF ALLIANCE
A día de hoy OOXML es únicamente el formato nativo de Microsoft Office 2007
Existen varias alternativas para trabajar con ODF y Microsoft Office 2000 / 2003 / 2007
Por ahora no existe un plugin de OOXML para Open Office aunque Novell ha anunciado que está trabajando en ello.

Más información:

staroffice

Sat, 17 Feb 2007 13:30:56 -0800

Open souce and linux news

Tue, 13 Feb 2007 14:33:13 -0800

Sun - Education and Research: Purchasing and Promotions

Wed, 20 Dec 2006 18:51:52 -0800

As part of Sun's ongoing commitment to education, Sun Microsystems provides licenses for StarOffice 8 at no-cost to education and research institutions

Using W3C XForms in Office Applications

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 14:39:03 -0800

LarsOppermann-XTech2005.pdf (application/pdf Object)

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 14:39:03 -0800

OpenOffice.org PrOOo-Box - Deutsche Vorlagen

Tue, 27 Jun 2006 05:26:46 -0700