From: Murat SADAK (murat@trfil.net)
Date: Wed 09 Jul 2003 - 11:59:03 EEST
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> Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2003 10:40:04 -0700
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> Subject: [com] OpenOffice.org Newsletter - Issue 07/2003
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> #########################################################################
> OPENOFFICE.ORG NEWSLETTER
>
> Volume 01 - Issue 07/2003
> #########################################################################
>
>
> Announcements
> =============
>
> Scripting Framework Early Developer Release 0.3
> -----------------------------------------------
> http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=724949&listName=announce
>
>
> OpenOffice.org for Mac OS X (X11)
> ---------------------------------
> http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=726897&listName=announce
> http://apple.slashdot.org/apple/03/06/23/2229252.shtml?tid=185
> http://www.macnn.com/news/15521
> http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3872
> http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,111325,00.asp
>
> German:
> http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/ola-23.06.03-002/
>
>
>
> Downloads
> =========
> * more than 16,500,000 people have downloaded
> OpenOffice.org so far (as of June 28, 2003):
>
> * more than 4,000,000 downloads happened in
> just April, May and June (as of June 28, 2003)
>
> * more than 71,000 downloads of OpenOffice.org
> for Mac OS X after Apple's WWDC
> (period of June 22-28, 2003)
>
> More details at http://stats.openoffice.org/
>
>
>
> Awards and Reviews
> ==================
>
> Best Linux Software Product Award
> ---------------------------------
> June 24, 2003
> Linux User and Developer Expo
> Birmingham UK
>
>
> OpenOffice.org review and MS Word Comparison
> --------------------------------------------
> http://www.raycomm.com/techwhirl/magazine/technical/openofficewriter.html
>
>
> ZDNet User Opinions
> -------------------
> http://zdnet.com.com/3302-2064-10108484.html
>
>
> Download.com Reviews
> --------------------
> http://download.com.com/3302-2064_4-10196648.html
>
>
> Amazon
> ------
> The following reviews talk about StarOffice, but are applicable to
> OpenOffice.org too:
>
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000066TPC/ref=cm_rev_sort/104-2368538-1335901?show=-submittime&v=glance&vi=customer-reviews&s=software&n=507846&Go.x=9&Go.y=11&Go=Go
>
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/tg/stores/detail/-/software/B00006837Z/customer-reviews/ref=sr_aps_software_1_1/ref=cm_cr_dp_2_1/202-0148770-2503020
>
http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/tg/stores/detail/-/software/3827207363/customer-reviews/qid=1057620208/sr=2-1/ref=sr_aps_prod_1_1/ref=cm_cr_dp_2_1/302-4852368-1091221
>
>
>
> Success Stories
> ===============
>
> More German cities show interest in Linux and OpenOffice.org
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> After the decision in Munich to change from MS
> to Linux and probably SO/OOo - other big cities
> in Germany like Wolfsburg (Volkswagen - VW)
> Helmstedt and Salzgitter are also thinking about
> a new OS and new Office-Suites.
>
> German:
>
http://www.newsclick.de/index.jsp/menuid/2043/include/64657461696c73756368652e6a7370?filled=suche&begriff=linux&x=17&y=11
>
>
> German Secretary of the Interior and IBM promote Linux
> ------------------------------------------------------
> The German Secretary of the Interior (Schily) and IBM (Staudt)
> promote Linux and open source for the usage within government
> authorities. They give the City of Munich and the City of
> Schwaebisch Hall as good examples [Schwaebisch Hall has already
> switched to OpenOffice.org and Munich will switch to either
> OpenOffice.org or StarOffice].
>
> http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0625over500g.html
>
> German article:
> http://www.computerwoche.de/index.cfm?pageid=254&artid=50206
>
>
> Land Surveying Offices in Bavaria switch to Linux
> -------------------------------------------------
> Summary:
> - 79 offices involved
> - 3,000 desktop PC's will be migrated in addition
> to server systems
>
> German article:
> http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/ola-12.06.03-002/
>
>
> Two UK Councils Possibly Switching to Linux
> -------------------------------------------
> According to this article on ZDNet UK,
>
> http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2135726,00.html
>
> two UK councils, Newham and Nottingham, are examining the feasibility of
> moving 11,500 desktops from Windows to Linux. The article doesn't say
which
> desktop applications would be used, but I'd think OOo or Star Office
> would be
> the likely choice for office software.
>
>
> Linux desktops in Newham and Nottingham (UK)
> --------------------------------------------
> According to the German article below, the cities
> Newham and Nottingham are interested in following
> Munich's example. Apparently they have plans to
> move to Linux desktops, too.
>
> URL:
> http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/ju-09.06.03-000/
>
>
> Industry group urges government to think twice on open source
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2136285,00.html
>
>
> OpenOffice.org in France
> ------------------------
> Success Stories (French)
> http://bureautiquelibre.org/ (French)
>
> OOo migration at the Department of the Interior in France
> (French only):
>
http://www.atica.pm.gouv.fr/pages/documents/fiche.php?id=1724&id_chapitre=7&id_theme=23&letype=0#
>
>
> 80,000 Gnome desktops deployed in Spain initiative
> --------------------------------------------------
> http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS5160643271.html
>
>
> Greece, 150.000 Greek Openoffice.org CDs distributed
> ----------------------------------------------------
> http://newsvac.newsforge.com/newsvac/03/06/24/1554213.shtml?tid=52
>
>
> Open Source in Scandinavia
> --------------------------
> There are also prominent migration stories in Scandinavia (Finland &
> Norway)
>
> Open Source puts down roots in Finland
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/29587.html
>
> Norway Says No Way to Microsoft
> http://www.wired.com/news/antitrust/0,1551,53898,00.html
>
>
> Linux in Europe
> ---------------
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/31207.html
>
> led by a few large and important German municipalities (recently Munich
> and Berlin) on the heals of the government's migration of the Reichstag
> facilities last year.
>
>
> Defense Department OK's open-source software
> --------------------------------------------
> http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/story/0,10801,81875,00.html
>
>
> Airlines starting to fly with Linux
> -----------------------------------
> "... Copernio CEO Peter Berghammer says, "I think two years
> from now, we might just be doing Linux releases, not Windows.
> ..."
>
> "... Berghammer himself is a long-time Mac user who recently
> started exploring Linux for personal use. He is now
> experimenting with various Linux distributions on his own
> computers, and is using OpenOffice.org (including the Mac
> OS X beta ) for some of his own work. ..."
>
> http://newsforge.com/newsforge/03/06/20/0132241.shtml?tid=3>
>
>
> OpenOffice in Thailand
> ----------------------
> Support growing for free Thai office suite
>
http://search.bangkokpost.co.th/bkkpost/2003/feb2003/bp20030212/database/12feb2003_data53.html
>
>
> StarOffice in Australia
> -----------------------
> Telstra takes shine to Star Office
>
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0%2c7204%2c6192015%5E15306%5E%5Enbv%5E%2c00.html
>
>
> Open Source in South Africa
> ----------------------------
> "...
> OpenOffice.org OEM Distribution
> The second largest PC distributor in ZA (Sahara) is now shipping OOo
> 1.0x with all their built up PC's. This was facilitated by a local media
> company which produces CD's primarily for computer magazines. These CD's
> are a compilation of various open source and other free software
> applications.
>
> Johannesburg Computer Faire
> We were unable to make the Computer Faire in Johannesburg due to a
> number of reasons. I will need to look into better planning in the
> future. We were, however able to get OOo distributed at the Faire by the
> Shuttleworth Foundation, who included it on their giveaway CD with other
> Open Source Software. Sun staff were also referring people to the
> Shuttleworth Foundation stand for copies of OOo.
>
> SA Government OSS Announcement
> Ben has already posted to the list the announcement by Minister
> Fraser-Moleketi that the South African Cabinet has approved the
> Government OSS Strategy. Whilst this is obviously beneficial to a number
> of OSS projects, OOo should be the first and biggest winner here. My
> earlier post gave some details of local translation efforts, but this
> announcement does tie directly in to the sponsoring of translate.org.za
> by government for the translation of OpenOffice.org into Zulu, Sotho and
> Afrikaans. Many of you may not know that South Africa has 11 official
> languages, all of which are targeted for eventual translation.
>
> OOo Distribution Experiment
> An experiment is currently underway to produce approx 1000 OOo CD's for
> sale at cost to distributors and resellers in Durban. The aim is to
> establish whether a self-sustaining production of OOo CD's can be
> maintained. I am currently looking for funding to expand this project
> and have contacted the Shuttleworth Foundation in this regard.
>
> Local Television Exposure
> A local prime time business magazine program recently did a piece on
> open source software. This program, although limited in its content and
> missing a great deal of relevant information, did give exposure to the
> concept of open source software to a large business audience. Whilst
> there was only a mention of OOo and a view of the OOo home page shown,
> at least it gave us some exposure. btw The MS spokesperson on the
> program was able to do MS a great disservice by not knowing the relevant
> information and generally came across as confused. A lesson to learn, if
> you are going to be interviewed, know your project, product and market.
> ..."
>
>
> Merrill Lynch: Linux saves money
> --------------------------------
> "... Snodgrass said the next target for using Linux could be on
> the desktop. ..."
> http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-1014287.html
>
>
> The Penguin on the Desktop
> --------------------------
> http://www.it-analysis.com/article.php?articleid=10955
>
>
>
> Market Information / Competition
> ================================
>
> The [Linux] desktop market is likely to pick up, too, with 15.5 percent
> ... (IDC)
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
-------
> http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=2110919358&fp=16&fpid=0
>
>
> Here's to the Next Battle of the Office Suites
> ----------------------------------------------
> http://www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/story/21714.html
>
>
> Schools still handing cash to Microsoft
> ---------------------------------------
>
http://www.edp24.co.uk/content/News/story.asp?datetime=19+Jun+2003+05%3A15&tbrand=EDPOnline&tCategory=NEWS&category=News&category=News&brand=EDPOnline&itemid=NOED18+Jun+2003+23%3A47%3A43%3A797
>
>
> Gates on Linux
> --------------
> http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2003-06-29-gates-linux_x.htm
>
>
> Microsoft sweetens its suite - australianIT.com.au report
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> Microsoft sweetens its suite (Angus Kidman , June 24, 2003)
> AS Microsoft prepares the release of Office 2003, it faces
> its strongest competition in the suite market for some time.
> Canny marketing and the dominant position of Word and Excel
> helped Microsoft all but eliminate its main rivals, Lotus
> and WordPerfect, by the mid-1990s, and enabled it to reap
> the rewards of market dominance.
>
> The full story is available at:
>
http://www.australianit.com.au/articles/0,7204,6630880%5E24170%5E%5Enbv%5E24169%2D24169,00.html
>
>
> SuSE redoubles Linux Desktop strategy
> -------------------------------------
> "... Bundled with the Linux Desktop are a number of tools
> that allow administrators of large systems to more easily
> install the product, including AutoYast and KDE Desktop
> Sharing. These tools allow administrators to remotely
> control the screens of many network hosts across different
> hardware platforms.
>
> Also built into the desktop are interfaces that make it
> easier to access to applications servers and mainframes
> using SAP clients, Windows 2000 Terminal client, and IBM
> terminal emulators. The product also contains other mail
> clients such as KMail, Evolution, and Mozilla, along with
> a number of Web browsers, calendar, and data exchange
> features that work with personal digital assistants.
>
> SuSE also announced the first hardware certifications for
> the Linux Desktop which includes IBM ThinkPads A31 and T40,
> in addition to IBM's NetVista desktop systems. The product
> has also garnered Linux Standards Base (LSB) certification,
> verifying its compliance to work with a range of Linux
> distributions. ..."
>
> URL:
> http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/06/08/HNsusedesktop_1.html
>
>
> KOffice 1.3 Beta 2
> ------------------
> http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3839
> http://dot.kde.org/1056044540/
> http://www.macobserver.com/article/2003/06/19.6.shtml
>
>
> Quick Polls in Switzerland
> --------------------------
> 27% of 856 participants said that the usage of
> Open Source Software could help to cut IT spendings:
> http://www.infoweek.ch/tools/quickpoll/qp_result.cfm?QuestionID=117
>
> 30% of 314 participants said they were using a office suite
> other than MS Office:
> http://www.infoweek.ch/tools/quickpoll/qp_result.cfm?QuestionID=129
>
> 7% of 312 participants said that they are using or want
> to use Linux on desktop systems exclusively. 26% are
> using or want to use Linux on both server and desktop
> systems:
> http://www.infoweek.ch/tools/quickpoll/qp_result.cfm?QuestionID=135
>
>
>
> Activities (local and world wide)
> =================================
>
> OpenOffice.org localization work
> --------------------------------
>
> Within the OpenOffice.org development project, there are currently over
> 60 language localization projects under way around the world; with
> over 27 different language builds of the software available today that
> run on various operating system platforms (mainly Windows and Linux).
>
> Also, the number of native language communities in the project is
> growing rapidly, as the project recently added
>
> - Thai, http://th.openoffice.org/
> - Hindi, and http://hi.openoffice.org/
> - Japanese http://ja.openoffice.org/index.html
>
> to the existing nine:
>
> 1 Czech http://cs.openoffice.org/
> 2 Dansk http://da.openoffice.org/index.html
> 3 German http://de.openoffice.org/index.html
> 4 Spanish http://es.openoffice.org/index.html
> 5 French http://fr.openoffice.org/index.html
> 6 Italian http://it.openoffice.org/index.html
> 7 Br. Portuguese http://br-pt.openoffice.org/index.html
> 9 Dutch http://nl.openoffice.org/index.html
>
> A native language community is a group of developers and marketers that
> collaborates in a specific language through a specific Web site that is
> localized in that language. Each community has a Web site, set of
> mailing lists and projects through which they conduct the dialog
> necessary to support the development and dissemination of OOo.
>
>
>
> Events
> ======
>
> JavaOne
> -------
> At JavaOne Erwin Tenhumberg staffed a booth about the
> StarOffice SDK. Many developers from high profile companies
> (incl. software vendors) came to the pod and asked very
> specific questions about how they could leverage
> StarOffice and OpenOffice.org from or within their
> Java applications. Most developers were interested in using
> OpenOffice.org as a document converter, a document/report
> generator or as an embedded GUI component within a AWT or
> Swing applications.
>
> In addition, Juergen Schmidt and Colm Smyth did a session
> about StarOffice/OpenOffice.org API development which was
> well received and generated even more interest in the OOo
> APIs. The session was attended by approximately 150 Java
> developers. Due to the strong interest in the SDK Juergen
> and Colm were not able to answer all the questions during
> their session. Therefore, they provided an "Ask the Expert"
> type support at the SDK booth during the exhibition hours.
>
>
> Apple's WWDC (San Francisco, USA)
> ---------------------------------
> http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=735386&listName=announce
>
>
>
> Discovered OpenOffice.org Solutions
> ===================================
>
> OpenPlenum
> ----------
> The pages are unfortunately in German, but the company
> PROTEXT COMPUTER created an OpenOffice.org based application
> called OpenPlenum.
>
> It's a document management and workflow application that
> focusses on processes that authorities like city councils
> have to deal with.
>
> German:
> http://www.protext.de/OpenPlenum/OpenPlenumstart_mit.htm
>
>
>
> New OpenOffice.org To-Do's
> ==========================
>
> Marketing
> ---------
> * Demo Script Creation
> * Creation of OpenOffice.org Standard Presentation
> * Creation of monthly OpenOffice.org Newsletters (ongoing)
>
> SDK
> ---
> * Update UNO Web Service Proxy to JWSDP 1.2
> * Create new useful and cool UNO Web Service Proxy sample(s)
>
>
> Full List
> ---------
> URL:
> http://website.openoffice.org/developer/todo.html
>
> All to-do's are marked as a TASK with the keyword
> "needhelp".
>
> In order to get new to-do's added please contact
> Erwin Tenhumberg (erwin.tenhumberg@sun.com)!
>
>
>
> New Resources
> =============
>
> German OpenOffice.org Study (German only)
> -----------------------------------------
>
http://www.competence-site.de/ebusiness.nsf/3c26e7f55f24138ac125691800380650/d34e71ea99d37abec1256d5000371bbc!OpenDocument
>
>
> Munich's Microsoft vs. Linux/OpenOffice.org study now online
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> SUMMARY:
>
> * Munich published a short version of the study that they
> used for their recent decision regarding the usage of
> Linux on the desktop (14,688 seats).
>
> * 5 solutions were compared:
>
> - Windows XP + Office XP (XP/XP)
> - Windows XP + OpenOffice.org (XP/OSS)
> - Linux + OpenOffice.org (LX/OSS)
> - Linux + OpenOffice.org + VMWare (LX/OSS/VM)
> - Linux + OpenOffice.org + Terminal Server (LX/OSS/TS)
>
> * The best solution cost wise incl. training and
> migration turned out to be Windows XP and Office XP
> followed by LX/OSS/VM.
>
> * After applying quality related and strategic factors
> like the dependence on Microsoft the best solution
> was Linux plus OpenOffice.org and VMWare followed
> by the pure Microsoft solution.
>
> * PDF file of study (German):
> http://www.muenchen.de/aktuell/clientstudie_kurz.pdf
>
> Frederick Labbe's Thesis (French)
> ---------------------------------
> Memoire Ingenieur CNAM (121 pages)- Format PDF (2.6 Mo)
> (2089 ) - Format OpenOffice.org (1.6 Mo) (407 )
> http://oootools.free.fr/memoire_cnam/
>
> Comments from Paul Miller:
> "This is an outstanding migration study from Office 97
> to OpenOffice.org of a two site hospital with several
> hundred machines which has to change because of cost &
> compatibility issues with newer/older machines because
> Office 97 can no longer be purchased legally. Cost savings
> was 40% of migrating to Office XP in first year and 50%
> for two more years.
>
> The thesis is in French but is so well written that I was
> able to decipher the essence of it using Babelfish. ..."
>
>
>
> Contact Information (regarding this newsletter)
> ===============================================
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>
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>
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>
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