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Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 11:23:57 -0700
From: Erwin Tenhumberg <erwin.tenhumberg@Sun.COM>
Reply-To: announce@openoffice.org
To: announce@openoffice.org
Subject: [ooo-announce] OpenOffice.org Newsletter - Volume 01 - Issue 03 -
09/2003
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OPENOFFICE.ORG NEWSLETTER
Volume 01 - Issue 3 - 09/2003
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Highlights in this Newsletter
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* Siemens says Linux will get 20% desktop market share
within 5 years
- Linux will save 20% to 30% in administration costs,
50% in hardware costs, and 80% in licensing fees
- Migration to Linux desktops no greater disruption
than Windows
* MSBlast/LoveSAN Worm
- Symantec identified over 600,000 computers
- cleaning infected systems to be at least $320 million alone
- Computer worm grounds Air Canada
- US Navy Marine Corps confirmed 100,000-seat intranet was unusable
- Sun invites to Mad Hatter early access registration
* Microsoft announces office pricing
- pricing same as old Office XP pricing
- StarOffice and/or OpenOffice.org mentioned as competition in many
press articles
* Microsoft discounts Windows and Office down to
$36 in Thailand due to Linux/OpenOffice.org threat
- government in Thailand is selling Linux and Windows PC's
- 50,000 PCs have been sent to ordinary citizens so far
Announcements
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OpenOffice.org 1.1 RC3
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"OpenOffice.org 1.1 RC3 is ready for download. It incorporates some
bugfixes and significantly advances the development of the Mac OS X
port. OpenOffice.org 1.1 RC3 is the first version to support building
out of the box on Mac OS X."
http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=786912&listName=announce
Statistics
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* more that 19,100,000 have downloaded OpenOffice.org
so far (as of August 30, 2003)
* the OpenOffice.org projects has more than 13,300
unique people subscribed to the mailing lists
(as of August 23, 2003)
* 293 people and companies have signed a JCA and are thus
either already contributing or considering to do so
(as of September 2, 2003)
* 980 people have participated in the OOo developer
survey so far (as of september 2, 2003)
* 518 messages were sent to the dev@api.openoffice.org mailing
list in August. This is a new record! The increasing load on
this mailing lists indicates that more and more developers
are using the OpenOffice.org SDK to integrate and/or extend
OpenOffice.org.
More statistical data at:
* http://stats.openoffice.org/
* http://oosurvey.gratismania.ro/results/index.php
* http://oosurvey.gratismania.ro/developer/results.php
* http://www.openoffice.org/copyright/copyrightapproved.html
Success Stories and References
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United Kingdom
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Skipton Girls High School is the only specialist engineering
school for girls in the UK. The school is sponsored by Rolls
Royce and is currently updating its IT infrastructure making
OpenOffice.org a key application, from teaching the principles
of object based drawing in Draw to enabling all families to
provide low cost facilities for computer based work at home.
Headteacher, Jan Renou, is keen to make the principles of Open
Source software part of the school's curriculum. "Nearly all
our girls go on to university and 7 scored in the top 5 marks
in the country in recent Advanced Level exams. We want to
make sure that we prepare our students for the world of the
future and its clear from world trends that Open Source
software is going to be a key part of that future. Students
at school now need to understand the issues of the future,
not just the tools of to-day."
St Monica's Language College in Bury, UK are installing
English, German, Italian and Spanish localisations of
OpenOffice.org. Head of Languages Eric Farrell was extremely
pleased to learn that this was going to cost nothing and that
the company installing the computer system would install these
at no extra charge. The school are experimenting with the
GNU/Linux operating system as well as Windows and a key
advantage for Eric is that all his language localisations
work very much the same with OpenOffice.org on both platforms.
France
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A success story for Chronopost International (one of the most
important french transportation and logistics company) who has
moved 300 desktops under Linux and OOo.
http://www.indexel.net/doc.jsp?id=2313&origin=900
Argentina
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On Monday 04.August.2003 10:38 am, Ing. Leonardo M. Baldi
wrote:
In Civil Engineering, several presentations using Impress
with details created in Draw, such as the following in the
Faculty of Architecture and City Planning in Cordoba National
University, Argentina:
1. Course in Planning, Management, and Direction of Projects
2. Multi-criterion Matrix for Selection of Alternatives
3. Module of Management and Control of Works
In my work as Civil Engineering Consultant I have installed
it on three machines. With the passage of time, no one has
objected to the use of the software, although I'm using it
unannouced.
On the lighter side, I use it to recover damaged Excel files
that Excel won't open; to recover and return to my colleagues
to continue working in Excel, for now.
GrULic: Linux Users Group in Cordoba:
On 11-April-2003 was the 5th DemoDay in the Math Department
at the Cordoba University. Gave presentation on OpenOffice.org
to the group.
On 22-August-2002 was the 4th DemoDay. Demonstrated the use of
OpenOffice.org in Linux.
[translation richard@openoffice.org]
Colombia
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Porvenir S. A. 1,000 Pc´s installed
Proteccion S. A. 800 "
Epm 50,000 planned & progressing
Educame 14,000 "
Bogota ON-line 25,000 "
Politecnico Jic 800 installed
NewStetic S.A. 160 installed
Comfama 1,800 planned & progressing
Multienlace S. A. 1,500 installed
IGAC 700 "
Distribution: 55% StarOffice & 45% OpenOffice.org
Source/Contact: Luis E, Vasquez R. (starsuitesun@msn.com)
OpenOffice.org Success Cases in Colombia
by Luis E. Vasquez (levarcol@openoffice.org)
[translation richard@openoffice.org]
Colombia seems to be a special case in light of the facts
and results achieved with StarOffice/OpenOffice.org in Latin
America and especially in projects developed in the public
and private sectors. Below are listed some of the projects,
by sector, that have been accomplished or which are in process:
End User Sector:
Projects aimed at making the home user a regular user of
internet and productivity applications. The prime goal is to
popularize the use of the internet and related tools.
1. Public companies of Medellin began a project for massive use
of the internet in Nov-2002. The objective is to place 200,000
PCs in homes in Medellin. It is planned that 86% of them will
have StarOffice installed. (www.epm.net.co)
2. Telephone company of Bogota, www.007mundo.com, began in
May-2003 a program called "Bogota On-Lin". The objective is to
place 300,000 PCs in Bogota within two years, all of them
pre-installed with OpenOffice.org / StarOffice.
Educational & University Sector:
Projects to strengthen teachers, administrators and in general
all levels of students involved in the programs. The most
outstanding are the following:
1. Program "EDUCAME" (educate me) from the Secretary of
Education, Medellin, was begun in April-2003 with 14,000 PCs,
all with StarOffice 6.0 donated by Sun Microsystems Colombia.
2. "Jaime Isaza Cadavid" Polytech Institute of Medellin.
All of their 450 PCs installed with OpenOffice.org/StarOffice
donated by Sun Microsystems Colombia.
3. Antioquia School of Engineering at Medellin with 150 of
their PCs and workstations equipped with StarOffice and
intensively used in education and teaching by the different
careers taught by the university.
4. Colombia National University at it's four campuses in the
cities of Bogota, Medellin, Manizalez, and Palmira began in
June-2003 a program of massive use of OpenOffice.org en close
to 1,500 stations.
5. Ceipa, a university level institution in Medellin, has
150 PCs equipped with OpenOffice.org and StarOffice for their
teachers.
6. There are also other universities, such as the following:
Francisco de Paula Santander University, Pamplona;
Francisco Jose de Caldas District University, Bogota;
Northern University, Barranquilla; San Buenaventura University,
Bogota, Medellin, Cali; and Valle University, Cali,
comprising a total of close to 400 PCs with OpenOffice.org.
SMEs: Small-to-Medium Enterprises:
There are projects in this area of small to medium companies
(up to 500 PCs) and corporations (more than 500 PCs), that are
using OpenOffice.org or StarOffice in their daily activities
of office automation. In this accounting, we include the more
notable, based on personal investigation primarily in Bogota
and Medellin in which we found in March-2003, 250 SMEs using
the product. However, in truth, there is not a detailed
inventory and we are behind in the implementation. (This could
be realized perhaps as a pilot project for implementation for
Latin America.
1. Multienlace SA, a call center service company that has the
product installed in 1200 machines that are used in servicing
their clients.
2. Porvenir SA, a pension fund administrative company that had
installed on 900 stations since November-2002. This company is
part of the large Grupo Aval, a Colombian financial group that
owns at least five large corporations with 6000 stations in all
of Colombia. This project is the pilot for the group and if
successful will generate a huge move to OpenOffice.org.
3. Proteccion SA, a pension fund administrative company that
had installed the product on 900 stations since October-2000
with StarOffice 5.2 and actually uses it in conjunction with
MsOffice XP.
4. Culture and Recreation District Institute of Bogota has
150 PCs that use OpenOffice.org as their only product in their
daily use.
5. ETB (telephone company of Bogota) began in March 2003 a
massive process of installing and implementing OpenOffice.org
on 600 machines.
6. NewStetic SA, a company dedicated to the manufacture and
worldwide distribution of orthodontics products. They have
installed on 150 machines as their official product,
StarOffice 6.
7. Almagran SA, a company dedicated to warehousing of
import/export with more than 20 offices in Colombia has
installed OpenOffice.org in all of their 150 PCs.
New Zealand
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NZ firm puts Linux on desktops
"Desktop Linux has made a small inroad into New Zealand business
with the news that BGH Group is installing 67 Linux thin clients
into offices around the country. [...]
Some thin clients will be used as POS machines, Pope says. Others
will run the KDE desktop software with the Evolution email and
workgroup client, Mozilla browser and OpenOffice suite."
http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=1386913021&fp=2&fpid=1
Misc
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KOffice will switch to OpenOffice.org file format
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"We will switch to the OASIS (OpenOffice.org) file format
for all the major applications. This has many advantages:
* file format shared with the OpenOffice.org suite,
we don't have to reinvent the wheel
* we'll be able to drop our OOo import filters and
use the export filters as a compatibility layer for
older KOffice versions documents
* we can actively participate in the standard file
format creation in the the case of Kexi and Kugar
which are applications that don't currently exist
in OOo
This is also a good opportunity to switch the names of
our MIME types to the vnd.kde... naming scheme and to
drop our KOffice-specific file extensions. It's again
the users who will benefit from this step, e.g. on
Windows it will be possible to open files created with
a KOffice application using the OpenOffice.org suite."
http://dot.kde.org/1061919133/
StarOffice
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http://wwws.sun.com/software/star/successstories/index.html
Spain
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Juan Rey Saura said, "If it counts, Sun Microsystems, Inc will
distribute StarOffice to more than 22,000 schools in Spain."
[translated byRichard@openoffice.org]
Spanish article:
http://elmundo.es/universidad/2003/06/24/tecnologia/1056468789.html
India
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StarOffice makes strong inroads in India
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"Leading banks like HDFC Bank, business process outsourcing
firms like ICICI One Source, new economy companies like Apnaloan,
corporations like J K Corp, government organisations like
Karnataka Public Works Department, Department of IT-Karnataka,
select government schools and colleges and also defence
organisations have adopted StarOffice.
By making the change to StarOffice and OpenOffice from Microsoft
Office, HDFC bank is estimated to have saved a minimum of Rs.4.46
crore (Rs 44.6 million), apart from the savings on corporate
licencing fees. HDFC uses over 3500 PCs.
Three months ago, Apnaloan began shifting its users to StarOffice
and brought down their costs by about 50-60 percent vis-à-vis
Microsoft Office.
"Over the next few months, we plan to deploy Linux on all our
desktops and shift to a mix of StarOffice and OpenOffice. This
will save the organisation 70-80 percent of the cost of the
operating system," says Parag Patankar, co-founder and CIO,
Apnaloan.
Sun Microsystems which owns the StarOffice suite says that the
government, the biggest spender on IT in India, is also seriously
considering switching over to StarOffice."
http://www.rediff.com/money/2003/sep/04sun.htm
Customer Feedback
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Interview with Ernie Ball (Sterling Ball)
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"I know I saved $80,000 right away by going to open source, and each
time something like (Windows) XP comes along, I save even more money
because I don't have to buy new equipment to run the software. One of
the great things is that we're able to run a poor man's thin client
by using old computers we weren't using before because it couldn't
handle Windows 2000. They work fine with the software we have now."
http://news.com.com/2008-1082-5065859.html
http://insight.zdnet.co.uk/business/management/0,39020490,39115887,00.htm
http://www.neowin.net/comments.php?id=13565&category=main
http://slashdot.org/articles/03/08/21/0515229.shtml?tid=109&tid=126&tid=163&tid=185&tid=187
Linux invasion takes off in corporate India
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"Apnaloan has 175 desktops. Three months ago they began shifting users
to StarOffice and brought their costs down by 50-60 percent vis-à-vis
Microsoft Office. Apnaloan chose StarOffice over OpenOffice because
Sun provides support for StarOffice. (OpenOffice is available for free
while StarOffice is a packaged version of OpenOffice sold, complete
with support, by Sun).
Over the next few months, Apnaloan plans to deploy Linux on all
desktops and shift to a mix of StarOffice and OpenOffice. Patankar
estimates that this move will save the organisation 70-80 percent of
the cost of the operating system. Since Linux is free, the 20-30
percent will be spent on one-time training costs."
http://www.cmpnetasia.com/ViewArt.cfm?Artid=20998&Catid=8&subcat=79
Awards & Reviews
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Breaking the Word Processor Curve
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"OpenOffice.org Writer not only stands toe-to-toe with MS Word for
nine rounds, but it wins the fight. Okay, it wins on a technical
decision instead of a knockout, but the victory still is worth a
cheer.
When you first switch to Writer, this claim that Writer beats Words
may seem hard to swallow. And no wonder; you're too busy learning
the new menus to get beyond the fact that everything's only
half-familiar. And if you're an unsophisticated user who has yet to
learn (to steal the title of Robin Williams' book) that the PC is
not a typewriter, you might never notice. However, if you're an
advanced user for whom style, structured text and long documents are
all part of word processing, then the claim soon becomes self-evident.
Understand that I'm not talking features here. True, with its PDF and
Docbook export filters alone, version 1.1 of Writer leaves MS Word
playing catch up. However, features are an arms race in which
superiority rarely lasts for more than one version. When I say that
Writer is the superior piece of software, I'm talking about the
basics, the everyday functionality that can't be improved without
massively rewriting the code. "
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=7120&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
CodeWeavers brings Linux the benefits of Windows...and some of
the drawbacks
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"As impressive as OpenOffice tools are, I'm just not confident I'll
get the results my colleagues expect to see when I use OpenOffice to
manipulate the MS Office files I share with these people.
[...]
Word has some features I wish OpenOffice Writer had, and from brief
trials I can tell that OpenOffice Impress is way behind PowerPoint
in stability."
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/wlg/3696
Linux/OpenOffice.org/StarOffice Usability
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Linux in the Enterprise: Now What?
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"These sorts of basic architectural improvements may smooth the path
for desktop Linux, but the toughest challenges in this area involve
packaging and delivering Linux to companies in an effective,
manageable form.
[...]
While OpenOffice.org does a good job of replicating the functionality
of Microsoft Corp.'s Office, Microsoft's productivity suite is a
moving target. The new Office application Infopath, for example, is
meant to introduce to knowledge workers a new sort of document
that's rich with data, formatting and business logic—a richness that
requires a thick client that happens to run only on Windows 2000 or
better.
As long as the industry's most prolific application software vendor
is also its dominant client platform provider, these sorts of
application compatibility issues will prove tough to avoid
completely. "
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1236250,00.asp
MOXIE: Microsoft Office-Linux Interoperability Experiment
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"StarOffice 6.0 is the winner of the compatibility sweepstakes, with
only one to five unusable files in each category. OpenOffice, which
is a fully open source application based on the StarOffice 5.2 code
base, is a close second. Gnome Office and KOffice are distant
contenders. They have much more immature presentation applications,
with KPresenter unable to load any of the PowerPoint graphics.
Agnubis was not tested because we couldn't find a working version."
http://www.acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=printer_friendly&pid=55
Is Linux ready for mom?
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"One morning, when I hadn't logged out of my Linux desktop, I noticed
that there were some windows open on one of the machine's virtual
desktops. A check revealed a browser running with a selection of
music and style sites: stepson John Getze, a 28-year-old economics
major at the University of San Francisco who normally uses an iMac,
had figured out during an evening visit how to use the virtual
desktop to keep from disturbing files I had left open on the machine.
So its safe to say that the Mozilla browser experience is within
reach of people who can use browsers on Windows and Mac OS."
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/02/1823212&mode=thread&tid=23
Study: Linux nears Windows XP usability
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"The study findings suggest that it is almost as easy to perform most
major office tasks using Linux as it is using Windows, which has a
long history in the consumer market.
Linux users, for example, needed 44.5 minutes to perform a set of
tasks, compared to 41.2 minutes required by the XP users. Furthermore,
80 percent of the Linux users believed that they needed only one week
to become as competent with the new system as with their existing one,
compared to 85 percent of the XP users. "
http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/08/04/HNusabilitystudy_1.html
http://www.relevantive.de/Linux_e.html
Siemens Study: "[Linux desktop] requires two days of training"
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"That's why testing was conducted with "secretaries and managers,
not IT people." McNutt believes that the Ximian desktop and
application suite, running on either SuSE or Red Hat, requires two
days of training, which is the same as what most enterprises budget
for a Windows/MS Office version upgrade: one day to acquaint users
with the desktop, and one day to introduce the OpenOffice suite."
For further data see "Linux desktop will capture 20%" below.
Linux/OpenOffice.org/StarOffice Market Share
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Will Sun’s Mad Hatter lend Linux a crown?
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"But I see the desktop Linux market growing exponentially in India
and there’s certainly place for one more offering", says Tapia.
[Country Head, Red Hat India]"
http://www.ciol.com/content/news/2003/103090314.asp
As Good as It Gets for Linux?
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"When it comes to making inroads on the desktop, Linux provides
users with several options. Technical and scientific environments
can replace Unix workstations with Linux, Quandt noted. Specialized
industries, such as insurance and retail, can build Linux-based
custom applications with relative ease. And, in addition to being
compatible with OpenOffice and other open-source alternatives to
Microsoft Office, Linux now can cross over and run Office itself
on top of it."
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/story/31470.html
Linux desktop will capture 20%
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"One of the world's largest IT companies [Siemens Business Systems]
declaring that the Linux desktop will capture 20% of the market for
desktop computers in large enterprises within 5 years."
[...]
"McNutt went on to say that Ximian's suite -- consisting of a
Gnome-based Linux desktop, Evolution mail and calendar app, a tweaked
OpenOffice suite, and Red Carpet admin tools -- can be deployed in
very large enterprises at lower cost and with no greater disruption
than a Windows upgrade, and with significant savings going forward.
McNutt says that Linux will save 20% to 30% in administration costs,
50% in hardware costs, and 80% in licensing fees."
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/13/1424212
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/17/1459202&mode=nested&tid=126&tid=163
http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/?pr=xd2_announce
Linux will pass Mac OS ... possibly by the end of 2003
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"IDC estimates that the market share for Mac OS dropped to 3.1
percent in 2001 from 4.6 percent two years earlier. Windows,
in contrast, has more than 90 percent market share.
"Certainly by...2005, possibly by the end of 2003, Linux will pass
Mac OS as the No. 2 operating environment," said IDC analyst Dan
Kusnetzky."
http://www.macobserver.com/article/2002/12/19.13.shtml
Jupiter Research
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According to Jupiter Research OpenOffice.org is deployed
at 6% of SMB with another 3% with plans to deploy it in
their next fiscal year.
Link: http://www.idg.net/ic_1326566_9698_1-5060.html
Competitive/Market Info
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Microsoft Uses Linux To Publish Its Own Web Site
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"Microsoft using a Linux service is ironic, given that Microsoft has
identified Linux as its biggest competitor. In a conference call with
analysts last month, company CFO John Connors ranked Linux as the #2
risk faced by the company. The #1 risk was the general economic
environment, Connors said. Nearly one in five small and mid-sized
businesses are using Linux on the desktop."
http://www.channelweb.com/Components/printArticle.asp?ArticleID=44033
Sun, RealNetworks in desktop software deal
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"Network computer maker Sun Microsystems Inc. said on Thursday that
it is working with RealNetworks Inc. to feature the Internet media
company's RealOne media player on its Linux-based desktop system.
Sun, which is promoting a desktop operating system based on Unix that
it calls Project Mad Hatter, said that the deal to feature
RealNetworks's software will allow users to get rich audio and video
content on their desktops."
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/uncomp/articleshow?msid=166602
Shanghai Schools Remove Microsoft's Office
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"A Chinese-made desktop productivity suite will reportedly replace
Microsoft Corp's Office in Shanghai schools. Kingsoft's WPS Office
2003 will this month begin to replace Office at schools, just weeks
after 15 major Chinese ministries began installation of the suite."
http://www.cbronline.com/cbrnews/64d7db2e4165724980256d940018c9bd
China's Red Flag Linux to step onto global stage
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"An alliance between Hewlett-Packard Co. and Chinese Linux
developer Red Flag Software Co. Ltd. established last month should
lead to cooperation between the two companies on technology
development and marketing of Red Flag Linux to companies in China
and around the world."
http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/09/04/HNredflag_1.html
Japan, China, Korea plan joint open-source project
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"The governments of Japan, China and South Korea have reached basic
agreement on the formation of a joint open-source software project
that could encompass desktop applications, embedded programs,
middleware and operating systems.
[...]
"A brand new operating system starting from zero is impossible,"
he said. "Developing a new operating system is time consuming and
very expensive. In general, it could be based on Linux with some
specific functions added. There are already a lot of Linux engineers
out there. (The Japanese real-time OS) TRON could be a candidate for
the core portion of the new OS and China may have another basic idea."
[...]
Microsoft is already feeling pressure from the spread of open-source
software in Asia. The company recently offered its Windows XP
operating system and Office software package for US$40 as part of a
Thai government program to offer low-wage earners a computer and
Internet connection. The cuts came after the government chose to use
Red Hat Inc.'s Linux operating system and Sun Microsystems Inc.'s
StarOffice software in the program."
http://www.itworld.com/AppDev/344/030904japan/
http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/09/04/HNosasia_1.html
China blocks foreign software use in gov't
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"At a special congress held to encourage ministries to upgrade to
WPS Office 2003, a China-made office productivity suite, Gao said
that only hardware pre-installed with domestic operating systems and
application software will be purchased by government. Those seeking
exceptions will need to submit a special request."
http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,2000048630,20277354,00.htm
Microsoft releases Windows Rights Management client
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"The Microsoft Windows Rights Management Client 1.0 was posted for
free download on Tuesday.
[...]
In addition to the free client download, Microsoft also released
pricing information for its Windows RMS server software. Windows
RMS client access license is priced at $37 each. A client access
license five pack is $185. The product is available only through
volume licensing programs."
http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/09/04/HNwindowsrms_1.html
Microsoft Prepares Office Lock-in
---------------------------------
"This will not only coerce those running older versions of Office
to upgrade, which has been a problem for MS in the last few years,
but it will also shut out competing software, such as OpenOffice.
Now think about this for a second. Even if the developers of a
competing office suite could figure out how to get their software
to open an Office 2003 document, doing so would be a DMCA violation,
since they'd be bypassing an anti-circumvention device."
http://slashdot.org/articles/03/09/02/1659244.shtml?tid=109&tid=185&tid=187
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/5069246.htm
http://news.com.com/2100-1012_3-5069246.html
Lindows: A Real Linux Desktop Alternative to Windows
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"After reading several reviews of Lindows 4.0, I take the plunge and
order it with a one year subscription to the Click-and-Run system.
I get instant access to the iso's, download them, and an hour later
I am installing Lindows 4.0. By the way, this is by far the simplest
and fastest OS install I have ever used. In 10 minutes, as advertised,
I am using lindows, it has detected all my hardware correctly, even
the wireless 802.11b card, and I am online logging into the
Click-and-Run system. This is great!
The Click-and-Run system for installing and finding software has hit
the nail on the head for the novice users. It works very well and the
software is fine-tuned for Lindows. I donnload the DVD player,
Mplayer, Latest Mozilla version, Flash and IBM Java, not to mention
a few games like Doom and Quake II. "
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=4378
http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=4378&limit=no
Lindows.com introduces cheap business PCs
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"LindowsCD is simply a version of the Linux-based Lindows OS that
boots from a CD inside each BusinessStation. The operating system
also comes with OpenOffice, a office productivity suite developed
by Sun Microsystems that produces documents compatible with
Microsoft's Office suite of products.
For $10 a year per machine, Lindows.com will provide customers with
services such as profile management tools to customize start-up pages
at a particular BusinessStation kiosk, the spokeswoman said.
Administrators can remotely configure and monitor the BusinessStation
over a corporate network. "
http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/08/28/HNlindowscheap_1.html
Microsoft Gears Up Software Assurance Changes
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"The latest tweaks will allow customers who buy Microsoft products
through OEMs to sign up for the Software Assurance program.
Originally, when Licensing 6.0 launched, application product licenses
acquired through the OEM channel were not eligible for upgrade
protection through Software Assurance. The tweaks also add a
limited-time program that will allow customers to alter their
licensing schemes in the wake of Microsoft's newly aired decision to
differentiate applications in the 2003 editions of Office."
http://boston.internet.com/news/article.php/3069791
http://www.cbronline.com/cbrnews/6f7fef9f0c68603b80256d910018ca8c
'Longhorn' Rollout Slips
------------------------
""We do not yet know the time frame for Longhorn, but it will
involve a lot of innovative and exciting work," said Gates at a
company financial analyst meeting this summer. Since then, other
Microsoft officials have neither retracted nor clarified Gates'
statement."
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1235051,00.asp
Q&A: Microsoft's Jim Allchin on the Longhorn timetable
------------------------------------------------------
"During an interview last week with Computerworld, Jim Allchin, group
vice president of platforms, confirmed that the target date for the
next version of the Windows client operating system is still sometime
in 2005. Allchin also discussed the philosophy behind the company's
operating system plans as well as the next service pack for Windows
XP, which is due next year."
http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/windows/story/0,10801,84362,00.html
Microsoft sends OneNote to school
---------------------------------
"Looking to make a good start for its OneNote application at schools
and colleges, Microsoft plans to give away its upcoming note-taking
software to certain institutions and will offer special academic
pricing for the product, the company said Monday."
http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/08/25/HNmsonenote_1.html
Microsoft seeks cash from IM client makers
------------------------------------------
"Microsoft Corp. is contacting providers of instant messaging (IM)
software to try to cut licensing deals before it boots the clients
from its MSN IM network."
http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/08/28/HNmicrosoftim_1.html
http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/groupware/story/0,10801,84456,00.html
Microsoft: IM Party's Over
--------------------------
"But developers of open-source IM clients say that while upgrading
clients might improve security, blocking third-party access won't.
"Using security as an excuse to apply stricter licensing on
competing software is … just ridiculous," wrote Martin Öberg,
project manager for Miranda IM, in an e-mail interview. "If their
protocol was secure, then a badly written client would never be able
to do anything harmful." "
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1231449,00.asp
Microsoft's entrance to spark corporate IM
------------------------------------------
"With Live Communications Server, companies will be able to run their
own enterprise IM network, address security concerns related to
public services, and log and manage employees' IM usage. The product
is capable of determining whether a user is online and available for
communication in Office applications and can extend this "presence"
information to other applications such as custom portals."
http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/08/22/33NNmsim_1.html
Microsoft explores automatic patching
-------------------------------------
" In the wake of a widespread Internet worm, Microsoft Corp. is
weighing options to get more users to secure their computers,
including automatically applying security patches to PCs remotely,
the company said."
http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,84286,00.html
http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/08/22/HNautopatch_1.html
Microsoft, EDS Untangle Desktop Deployments
-------------------------------------------
"Microsoft Corp. stepped into to the desktop deployment and migration
miasma Tuesday with a new package of guidelines, tools and scripts
designed to reduce the complexity of large-scale deployments.
At the same time, services partner Electronic Data Systems Corp.
teamed up with the Redmond, Wash., company to launch a new
pay-for-use service framework for provisioning and automating the
delivery of new applications.
Microsoft's new Solution Accelerator for Business Desktop Deployment
(BDD) is designed to reduce the manual tasks associated with
deployment of Windows XP, Office XP and Office 2003 by as much as 75
percent per desktop."
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1226751,00.asp
http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/08/20/HNedsintro_1.html
EDS introduces Microsoft desktop management service
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"Features of the offering, called myCOE (my Consistent Office
Environment), include giving end users flexibility in choosing
applications for their desktops and a pricing model under which
companies pay only for the services used, according to Plano,
Texas-based EDS."
http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/apps/story/0,10801,84183,00.html?nas=AM-84183
Portals Not Suites for Linux, Says IBM
--------------------------------------
"IBM Corp has poured cold water on the concept of a Linux desktop
productivity suite, downplaying today's open source contenders in
favor of a portal-based approach.
With Sun Microsystems Inc preparing to launch its Mad Hatter desktop
next month, including an open-source productivity suite, IBM has said
it does not yet see any open-source replacement package for Microsoft
Corp's Office.
[...]
Smith said IBM does offer customers OpenOffice, but a portal approach
matched IBM's strategy of On Demand computing, with customers calling
on applications when they require them."
http://www.cbronline.com/latestnews/1d3d21eb6a38b82780256d870032ca62
IBM dismisses OpenOffice as child's play
----------------------------------------
"IBM claims to have put more than $1 billion behind open source
software, but the company is failing to pay even a modest amount
of lip service to one of free software's most needed products.
Karen Smith, vice president of Linux strategy and market
development at IBM, has been telling a number of publications
that no open source equivalent of Microsoft Office exists.
Lest you think Smith has been living in a cave, rest easy.
She does appear to be acquainted with OpenOffice and its StarOffice
incarnation from Sun Microsystems. These suites, however, are not
good enough for IBM."
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/32461.html
D.H. Brown reports IBM's Linux leadership
-----------------------------------------
"The report, Linux Strategies and Solutions. . . Linux Suppliers
Contend for Leadership, compares Linux strategies, products,
offerings, and services available from major system vendors and
rates IBM as an industry leader, highlighting IBM's comprehensive
Linux strategy and crediting the company with bringing Linux to
the enterprise."
http://lwn.net/2002/0502/a/ibm-dhbrown.php3
http://linuxpr.com/releases/6139.html
http://www.dhbrown.com/cffiles/index.cfm?SENTID=49522551
Mad Hatter Plans OS/2 Tea Party
-------------------------------
"Curtis Sasaki, Sun vice president of engineering for desktop
solutions, told ComputerWire the company "conservatively"
estimates there are 20 million customers stranded on IBM Corp's
legacy operating system. Many are also using dated desktop
productivity packages such as Lotus' SmartSuite.
These organizations will be increasingly forced to migrate to
another desktop hardware and software set-up because of decreased
support from IBM. When they jump, Sun hopes it can catch them
with Mad Hatter."
http://www.cbronline.com/cbrnews/dd0244b99fee78e280256d8a0018cb10
http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS2116578132.html
Novell Acquires Ximian
----------------------
"Together, Novell and Ximian offer tremendous benefits for customers,"
Patrick said. "Our breakthrough management and desktop products strongly
complement Novell applications on Linux and Novell Nterprise Linux
Services. The global Novell channel, partnerships with industry leaders
and proven customer support will benefit customers. Novell as an
enterprise company is the ideal choice for us to drive growth for the
Linux market as a whole."
http://www.atnewyork.com/news/article.php/2243891
http://www.ximian.org/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=novell
Novell posts loss, cuts work force by 10%
-----------------------------------------
"Novell said the next version of NetWare, due out in early 2005, will
offer the Linux option.
"Linux represents a significant revenue opportunity for us," Messman
said, noting that the free operating system is gaining fans among
mainstream corporations that make up Novell's customers."
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/uncomp/articleshow?msid=142199
http://www.computerworld.com/news/2003/story/0,11280,84269,00.html
Novell axes 600 but commits to more Linux
-----------------------------------------
"But Novell said it would probably make a profit in its fourth quarter
and is committed to expanding its Linux offerings, its chief executive
said.
Jack Messman told investors that it is going to expand its Linux
offerings. Earlier this month it paid $40 million to buy Ximian."
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11156
http://edition.cnn.com/cnnfn/2003/08/21/technology/novell.reut/
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1228437,00.asp
Nterprise Linux Services signal a sea change for Novell
-------------------------------------------------------
"Among the services included in the Nterprise suite are eDirectory
with DirXML (for identity management and for connections to NT,
Active Directory, and Exchange databases); file services using
iFolder; print services based on iPrint; messaging services using
NetMail supporting up to 50,000 messaging and calendar users on a
single server; systems management using ZENworks; and systems
administration using iManage. Already, IBM, HP, and Dell have
signed on to provide Nterprise Linux Services to their Linux
customers."
http://techrepublic.com.com/5100-6261_11-5062241.html
Ximian to deliver Mono 1.0 Release Candidate
--------------------------------------------
"Ximian executives said the company plans to deliver a preview of its
open-source implementation of Microsoft's .Net for Linux, Unix and
Windows in September, and a release candidate of version 1.0 by
year's end. "
http://www.itnews.com.au/storycontent.cfm?ID=10&Art_ID=12683
Making Linux more like Windows than Windows
-------------------------------------------
"He thinks that Novell, with its deep understanding of enterprise
IT - from both user and administrator perspectives - along with its
recent embrace of Open Source and its strategic acquisition of
Ximian - is perfectly positioned to drive Linux desktop acceptance
to a wider audience in large enterprises. And he thinks that their
customers are ready - today - to jettison Windows, at least in
selected departments."
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/09/1329244&mode=thread&tid=23
Sun and Novell push Linux
-------------------------
" Both Sun and Novell used the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo,
which opened in San Francisco Monday and runs through Friday,
to put their stamp on Linux."
http://www.cmpnetasia.com/ViewArt.cfm?Artid=20821&Catid=2&subcat=19
Disney will use Photoshop on Linux
----------------------------------
"Rather than wait, Disney, along with two other motion picture
animation studios (which declined to be named for this article),
decided to jointly fund the development of a Windows-to-Linux
porting solution. The idea: develop technology using the Wine
emulator to run Adobe Photoshop on Linux.
[...]
Disney deployed Red Hat Linux 7.2 on more than 600 desktops.
All the desktops run CodeWeavers Inc.'s CrossOver Office 2.0.1,
which enables non-Linux applications to run on Linux."
http://www.eweek.com/print_article/0,3668,a=45783,00.asp
Linux Migration
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German Department of the Interiors releases Migration Guide
-----------------------------------------------------------
The German Department of the Interior released a software
migration guide that is supposed to help companies and
govnernment authorities to migrate from old Microsoft
platforms to newer ones or from Windows to Linux.
The documents mentions OpenOffice.org and StarOffice
quite a few times!
German PDF file: http://download.bund.de/mlf_v1_de.pdf
German OpenOffice.org Study (German only)
-----------------------------------------
"Eine Umfrage hat ergeben, dass angesichts der Microsoft Lizenzpolitik
immerhin 15,4 % der Befragten einen Einsatz von OpenOffice Software
und 14,3 % einen Einsatz der kommerziellen Variante StarOffice erwägen."
translates to
"A survey shows that due to Microsoft's licensing scheme 15.4% of the
interviewed people consider the deployment of OpenOffice.org and 14.3%
consider the usage of the commercial derivative StarOffice."
Munich's Microsoft vs. Linux/OpenOffice.org Study
-------------------------------------------------
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 (OpenOffice.org Community):
"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. ..."
Security
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IT links to blackout under scrutiny
-----------------------------------
"Government and industry experts speaking unofficially with
Computerworld have linked Blaster to the severity of the blackout,
since on the day of the blackout Blaster affected the communications
networks used to manage the power grid (see story). But the degree
to which the hampered flow of data over those networks might have
contributed to the blackout is still unclear."
Users turn to automated patch management tools
----------------------------------------------
" Hoping to better protect themselves against escalating security
threats such as the W32.Blaster worm, user companies are taking a
fresh look at automated patch management technologies."
http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/holes/story/0,10801,84516,00.html
Microsoft warns about new software flaw in Office suite
-------------------------------------------------------
"The world's largest software maker said that a flaw that it rated as
"critical" in its Visual Basic for Applications software, used to
develop applications for Windows and Office, could enable a malicious
programmer to create documents that would launch attacks on
unsuspecting users.
Microsoft has vowed to improve security and reliability of its
software, which has been hit by several high-profile flaws this year.
The Slammer worm nearly brought the Internet to a halt in January,
and the Blaster worm and its variants crippled hundreds of thousands
of computers in August. "
http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/holes/story/0,10801,84581,00.html
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1237708,00.asp
http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/09/04/HNmsofficewarning_1.html
Report: Japan, Korea, China to break Windows ties
-------------------------------------------------
"Governments, private sector companies to jointly develop new rival OS
[...]
The Nihon Keizai Shimbun, quoting "sources close to the matter,"
said a new operating system was being considered after the recent
spate of viruses that has targeted the Windows operating system.
Work to be undertaken will include development of new applications
such as word processor and spreadsheet software."
http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/09/02/HNbreakties_1.html
Update: Rival groups debate DHS deal with Microsoft
---------------------------------------------------
"The contract, awarded June 27, named Microsoft as the "primary
technology provider" to the Department of Homeland Security, supplying
desktop and server software critical for the agency.
In a letter yesterday to Tom Ridge, the secretary of the DHS, Ed Black,
the CEO and president of the Washington-based CCIA, asked the agency
to "reconsider" its decision to use Microsoft software inside an agency
with critical security needs"
http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,84434,00.html
Blaster worm linked to severity of blackout
-------------------------------------------
"The inability of critical control data to be exchanged quickly across
the grid could have hampered the operators' ability to prevent the
cascading effect of the blackout, he said. Seifert stressed, however,
that no one is certain at this point what caused the blackout.
A former Bush administration adviser who has consulted with the U.S.
Department of Homeland Security on the power grid issue said the
Blaster worm also hampered the ability of utilities in the New York
region to restore power in a more timely manner because some of those
companies were running Windows-based control systems with Port 135
open - the port through which the worm attacked systems. "
http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/recovery/story/0,10801,84510,00.html
Symantec: Blaster victims top 330,000 machines
----------------------------------------------
"Another security firm, RedSiren, is pegging the damage in terms of
lost productivity related to IT staff detecting and cleaning infected
systems to be at least $320 million alone.
[...]
Sun director of marketing in the desktop solutions division, Peder
Ulander, noted that the company in September is scheduled to unveil
its Linux- and Solaris-based product suite called "Mad Hatter," which
includes Java-based office-productivity applications."
http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0814blastsym.html
Howling for a Secure Alternative
--------------------------------
"... and managing the complexity of MSBlast, alone, exceeds any
potential cost of retraining a user to expect a new color scheme ..."
http://www.alwayson-network.com/comments.php?id=827_0_1_0_C
What, me worry?
---------------
"Nevertheless, this is not an occasion for gloating, as the attack
caused widespread inconvenience -- ask anyone who visited any of
Maryland's Motor Vehicle Administration offices last Tuesday -- and
surely cost the nation's businesses millions of dollars in lost
productivity.
Week In Review: The Worm Turns
-------------------------------
"The worm didn't disappoint those projections and ultimately
infected more than 250,000 PCs and systems, taking down the
network for the state of Maryland's motor vehicle agency and
booting Swedish Internet users offline. But even by Tuesday
night, the worm's replication began to slow."
http://www.internetwk.com/breakingNews/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=13100401
Computer worm grounds Air Canada
--------------------------------
"The Canadian arm of IBM Corp., the world's largest technology
provider, which won a $1.4-billion contract to supply Air Canada
with information technology operations in July 2001, could not say
how long it would take to rid the airline of the computer worm.
[...]
Symantec identified over 600,000 computers on Tuesday afternoon that
were affected."
http://www.canada.com/vancouver/news/story.asp?id=1999F9CA-ED14-4020-B334-E046D9D5E584
Worms Hit Airline, Military as Microsoft Mulls Forced Fixes
-----------------------------------------------------------
"Air Canada said yesterday that Nachi, a worm related to MSBlast,
crippled its check-in and reservation systems, causing flights to
be delayed and cancelled. The situation compounded the problems
already seen by the airline after last week's power outage.
The US Navy Marine Corps confirmed yesterday that its 100,000-seat
intranet was essentially unusable for a sustained period starting
Monday afternoon, due to the excess traffic created by Nachi
infections on its servers.
And over the weekend, spokespeople for Edwards Air Force Base in
California, where the US Air Force tests its cutting-edge planes,
told the Washington Times that its network had been take offline
in response to MSBlast."
http://www.cbronline.com/latestnews/26ba15ea3f84730680256d880018c816
Virus attacks computers at Highway Patrol
-----------------------------------------
"Ricks said technicians had sealed off the virus from the network
by early Thursday. Ricks said there are about 2,000 personal
computers throughout the patrol and it remained unclear how many
were hit by the virus."
http://newstribune.com/stories/081503/sta_0815030001.asp
Computer worm wreaks havoc at firms
-----------------------------------
"Mr. Puri, who is director of information technology at the
Toronto-based company, said he lost nine person-days in his
department as his staff spent all day and night cleaning out the
computers used by the 500 Y&R employees in Canada.
Mr. Puri estimates that the total cost of MSBlast -- in overtime,
lost productivity and extra bandwidth costs -- to be about $500,000."
http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030814/RNETT/TPBusiness/TopStories
Computer worm costs county work time, $70,000 in repairs
--------------------------------------------------------
"Technicians scrambled Wednesday to fix thousands of county
government computers infected with a viruslike worm that disrupted
work routines and generated a $70,000-plus repair bill.
About 3,500 of the county's 6,500 active computers were infected
with the worm, called the "Blaster" or "LoveSan," said J. Matt
Carroll, Ventura County's chief information officer."
http://www.insidevc.com/vcs/county_news/article/0,1375,VCS_226_2181663,00.html
Virus-hit PCs flood HB shops
----------------------------
"It costs about $70 to have the virus removed, depending on the level
of infection, and most computers were ready to go home on the same
day, he said."
Hey! Another creepy worm on my PC?
----------------------------------
"According to Best Buy's Stephens, consumers and businesses suffered
billions of dollars in lost data, lost time and business, and repair
costs in the aftermath of the nefarious Code Red virus in 2001."
http://money.cnn.com/2003/08/13/news/companies/virus_impact/?cnn=yes
Sobig Virus Becomes A 'High Threat'
-----------------------------------
"Because of its mass-mailing capabilities, Sobig can eat up bandwidth
and slow a company's network performance. The virus, however, isn't
considered as malicious as others, since it doesn't delete files or
damage the infected PC.
Nevertheless, the bigger danger lies in its ability to open a port
in a computer, enabling a hacker to upload a Trojan. The small
application can let a hacker take control of a computer or search
for passwords in the system to break into people's online accounts.
Sobig.F poses a bigger threat than the last variant of the email
virus. MessageLabs, which monitors corporate E-mail traffic for
spam, viruses, and other nuisances, has intercepted 360,000 E-mails
infected with Sobig.E since it appeared June 25."
http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20030819S0019
Sobig strikes again and again
-----------------------------
"Indeed, the number of virus-carrying emails intercepted by
MessageLabs increased from 10,000 at 8:30 am EST Tuesday to more
than 100,000 by 1 pm EST. "It's a lot, but there have been a number
of other viruses with a faster infection rate," a MessageLabs
spokesman said. "In terms of Sobig variants, it's up there with the
last one.""
http://www.itnews.com.au/storycontent.cfm?ID=9&Art_ID=12718
MessageLabs: Sobig.F breaks speed records
-----------------------------------------
"Virus produced more than one million copies in first 24 hours"
http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/08/21/HNsobigger_1.html
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1227345,00.asp
Sun promotes Mad Hatter as secure alternative to Microsoft
----------------------------------------------------------
"Designed to compete with Microsoft Corp., Project Mad Hatter is
being positioned by Sun as a cheaper, secure alternative desktop
operating system to Microsoft's various desktop offerings. The
announcement was made as the MSBlaster worm, which exploits the
Microsoft OS, continues to spread."
http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1265006281&fp=16&fpid=0
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,112015,00.asp
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/story/31360.html
http://www.technewsworld.com/perl/story/31341.html
http://www.vnunet.com/News/1142999
Solutions
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Content Management
==================
iCoya OpenContent by Struktur AG
--------------------------------
"The icoya OfficeIntegration provides a powerful integration of
OpenOffice.org and StarOffice documents including images and tables
within the icoya Content & Collaboration Management Systems."
http://www.icoya.com/produkt/module/index_html/tocarticle_view#1
e-Government
============
OpenPlenum by PROTEXT COMPUTER GmbH
-----------------------------------
OpenPlenum is some kind of document management and workflow
application that focusses on processes that authorities
like city councils have to deal with.
German website:
http://www.protext.de/OpenPlenum/OpenPlenumstart_mit.htm
Education
=========
StarOffice4Kids
---------------
"StarOffice 4 Kids is a product suite for teachers and students.
Emerging from a technological research project in collaboration with
Sun Microsystems, Inc. and the Heinz-Nixdorf-Institute at the
University of Paderborn, kippdata developed StarOffice 4 Kids into
an integrated learning environment with highly flexible functionality
and user interface."
http://www.kippdata.de/produkte/so4k/so4k_en.html
Document Management
===================
Tamino XML Integration by Software AG
-------------------------------------
"Darmstadt, Germany - May 20, 2003 - Sun Microsystems, Inc.
(NASDAQ: SUNW) and Software AG have formed a business alliance to
deliver add-on technology for Software AG's Tamino XML Server 4.1
to support Sun's StarOffice(tm) Software 6.1 productivity suite.
The Tamino/StarOffice add-on delivers a cost-effective solution,
increasing workgroup productivity and security by providing access
to powerful collaboration functionality, digital signature support
and connectivity with back-end applications."
http://www.softwareag.com/corporat/news/may2003/Tamino_Staroffice.htm
Collaboration
=============
InView Software's Momentum
--------------------------
"FEATURE HIGHLIGHTS
* A distributed desktop software application for end users
* Real-time collaboration and multi-user editing/viewing
* A drawing editor
* An outliner and task manager
* Messaging and instant messaging
* Document versioning and change notifications
* Integration with Microsoft Office, StarOffice, OpenOffice, and
Adobe Acrobat (.PDF)"
http://www.inviewsoftware.com/products/momentum/momentum_data_sheet.pdf
http://www.inviewsoftware.com/products/momentum/index.htm
"Integration with Your Desktop Applications
Momentum extends the way you already work, letting you use your
favorite applications, including Microsoft Office, StarOffice,
OpenOffice, and Adobe Acrobat, when you work with others."
http://www.inviewsoftware.com/products/momentum/prodinfo.htm
Misc
====
OpenOffice.org Viewer for KDE
-----------------------------
"After reading tons of OpenOffice.org documentation (just the
major parts—I did not have the patience to read it all), studying
the Java examles, learning from others and after some experiments
I finally have a KDE Part, which can be used as a viewer of all
documents supported by OpenOffice.org. Of course, there is a lot of
things to improve (everyone can surely imagine OOo fully integrated
to KDE—from Qt widgets to drag'n'drop), but even at the current stage
it is useful. At least, Word, Excel or PowerPoint files look cool
when opened in the Konqueror window:)"
http://artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~kendy/cuckooo/index.php
EndNote now supports StarOffice and OpenOffice.org
--------------------------------------------------
"CARLSBAD, Calif., Aug. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Thomson ISI ResearchSoft
ships a major upgrade to EndNote(R) -- the bibliographic software
used by millions of researchers and students. Known for introducing
innovative features to search online bibliographic databases, organize
references and create instant bibliographies, EndNote7 delivers
subject bibliographies, flexible image handling, and connectivity to
explore and mobilize reference collections.
[...]
EndNote 7 now offers the ability to create bibliographies with
StarOffice, OpenOffice, AppleWorks, FrameMaker and more using Rich
Text Format (RTF) Files."
Pricing
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Gartner: Microsoft cuts Windows price to $40 in Thailand
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"Could lead to lower prices in other countries [...]
"Microsoft -- in response to a Linux threat -- recently reduced
pricing to $40 for an Office and Windows package it offered as part
of a government initiative in Thailand," the report said.
"Microsoft may offer a similar package in China as an incentive to
keep Chinese enterprises using its products," the report added. "
http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/story/0,10801,84284,00.html
http://ups.asia.cnet.com/c/as.ch.nt.top.030823b/asia.cnet.com/newstech/industry/0,39001143,39147732,00.htm
http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/57F719F988F6415548256D8D003789A6?OpenDocument
http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/08/25/HNwindowsprice_1.html
Microsoft discounts Windows and Office down to $36 in Thailand
--------------------------------------------------------------
"...
Yet Mr. Chom's participation in the novel Thai computer
program -- which has sent about 50,000 PCs to ordinary
citizens so far and aims to deliver a million by the end
of next year -- highlights the potential for free, "open
source" software like Linux to spread in the developing
world.
..
Microsoft even paid for a mailing from the Thai government,
informing people who had already signed up for a People's PC
that they could pay extra for a Microsoft-powered computer
instead. If a computer had already been shipped, and its new
owner requested Microsoft software, Microsoft got permission
for its hardware partners to open up the computer on government
property and install its own software, according to Mr. McBean.
Microsoft even did away with the controversial "product
activation" feature of its software, which requires people to
officially register the product.
Of the 134,000 desktop PCs ordered so far, according to the
computer association's Mr. Pisit, somewhere between 20,000
and 25,000 have been outfitted with Windows and Office, as
opposed to Linux. Mr. McBean puts the number at about 33,000.
More computers will go on sale later this year.
.."
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/0,,SB106081614955559800-H9jeoNolal2n5yraX6HbaqJm4,00.html
Office 2003 pricing remains same as Office XP
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"Microsoft's Office also faces competition from low-cost competitors
such as OpenOffice and StarOffice. Microsoft said it will launch
several different editions of Office, including a standard edition
for $399, a professional edition for $499, and small business
edition for $449. There is also an education Student and Teacher
Edition for $149.
Upgrades from previous versions are usually $50 to $70 cheaper and
each of the individual Office programs will be available separately,
Microsoft said. "
http://edition.cnn.com/2003/TECH/biztech/08/20/microsoft.office.reut/
http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/apps/story/0,10801,84161,00.html
http://www.cbronline.com/latestnews/e4ffaa937bca85a980256d880018c814
http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/08/19/HNofficeprice_1.html
Launch of Microsoft Office System 2003
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"What makes it relevant to workplaces rather than the home or home
office is that these core products can be extended to take advantage
of Microsoft's server-based products such as SharePoint Portal Server
2003, Exchange Server 2003 and Microsoft Office Live Meeting.
Three new back-end programs comprise Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003,
Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2003 and Microsoft Office
OneNote 2003.
That mind-numbing list of names means you have to buy and maintain
these expensive back-end applications to exploit many of the powerful
collaboration features in the new software suite.
[...]
If you want a multifunction package for use on a home PC, a more
affordable alternative is Microsoft Works Suite, which includes Word,
for about $230. Competing packages are available from companies such
as Corel (WordPerfect Office), Sun Microsystems (Star Office) and the
free OpenOffice.org suite."
http://www.theadvertiser.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,7032101%255E21669,00.html
Miscellaneous Product News
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OpenOffice for Mac OS X Delayed
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"OpenOffice.org is delaying the projected release, originally
expected in early 2004, until the first quarter of 2006, largely
because of a lack of developers contributing to the effort, said
Louis Suarez-Potts, community manager for the open-source project.
"To move to Aqua requires substantially more resources for
development," Suarez-Potts said, referring to the user interface
built into Mac OS X. "We've had tremendous response … and many
developers say they want to help out. But there's a big difference
between people saying they want to help and them actually helping."
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1228468,00.asp
http://www.betanews.com/article.php3?sid=1061544321
http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030822.gtmacaug22/BNStory/Technology/
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/5067166.htm
Sun Microsystems steps closer to providing choice on the desktop
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"Schwartz also reaffirmed Sun's commitment to open communities and
open standards by detailing its contribution of over 8 million lines
of code to the open source community, driving participation in
OpenOffice.org, Mozilla.org, java.net and its recent membership of
the Open Source Development Lab."
http://www.itweb.co.za/sections/computing/2003/0308220727.asp?A=HOME&O=FPIN
New OpenOffice.org To-Do's
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Quality Assurance
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http://qa.openoffice.org/helping.html
Bibliographic Project
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http://bibliographic.openoffice.org/developer.html
GLOW Groupware Client
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http://groupware.openoffice.org/glow/dev/opentasks.html
Other To-Do's
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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)!
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