Tag Archives: OpenOffice.org

Hunches and predictions for open source in 2009

Posted on January 1, 2009 by Bob Sutor

It’s that time of year again. Last year I wrote about challenges and priorities for open source, standards, and virtual worlds. In January, 2007, I reviewed my favorite blog entries for 2006 (and note that I was considerably more succinct … Continue reading →

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OpenOffice.org Conference in Beijing

Posted on August 20, 2008 by Bob Sutor

This year’s OpenOffice.org Conference will take in place in Beijing from November 5th through 7th. I was hoping to get over there for it but I have a travel conflict. The program looks great!

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Some notes post-travel

Posted on May 12, 2008 by Bob Sutor

I’m home from my trip to Italy last week and except for missing a connection in Chicago, all went well. Even the connection problem was not a major issue except that it was a Friday night and I got home … Continue reading →

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Great ODF news from Malaysia

Posted on March 19, 2008 by Bob Sutor

The Open Malaysia blog is reporting the following: The Malaysian Administrative Modernization and Management Planning Unit (MAMPU) has announced that the agency will be migrating to OpenOffice.org office suite as well as adopt the OpenDocument Format (ODF). In addition, Microsoft … Continue reading →

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Ten challenges and priorities for free and open source in 2008

Posted on January 8, 2008 by Bob Sutor

Last week I started a series of blog entries about my personal view of challenges and priorities for this year. That first entry was about open standards and today I’m going to look at free and open source (FOSS). Incidentally, … Continue reading →

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links for 2007-12-15

Posted on December 15, 2007 by Bob Sutor

Madonna, others named to Rock Hall of Fame – USATODAY.com “The ever-evolving Madonna was announced as a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee on Thursday along with John Mellencamp, The Ventures, Leonard Cohen and The Dave Clark Five.” (tags: … Continue reading →

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Moving to Leopard

Posted on November 4, 2007 by Bob Sutor

Yesterday I upgraded my Mac to OS X Leopard. It pretty much went like this: around 6:45 AM I put in the Leopard DVD and reconfirmed the previous registration information I had given to Apple. It then asked if it … Continue reading →

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OpenOffice.org + Firefox = ODF in your browser

Posted on September 27, 2007 by Bob Sutor

Via Roy Schestowitz, here’s an article that describes how to use a Firefox extension to enable OpenOffice.org to be the display engine for ODF within Firefox.

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Remembering September

Posted on September 26, 2007 by Bob Sutor

In early August I stated in this blog that after the OOXML JTC1 ballot closed on September 2, the sun would rise, the birds would sing, and so on. As we are now at the end of the month and … Continue reading →

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links for 2007-09-20

Posted on September 20, 2007 by Bob Sutor

Open Source, Open Documents OpenOffice 2.3 The Latest Threat To Desktop King Microsoft — Office — InformationWeek “Fresh with support from IBM, the latest version adds capabilities to the suite’s core word processing, spreadsheet and presentation applications.” (tags: openoffice) Russia … Continue reading →

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links for 2007-09-19

Posted on September 19, 2007 by Bob Sutor

Lotus Symphony IBM Lotus Symphony “Lotus Symphony is based on the Open Document Format (ODF) standard-which means you’re not locked into proprietary file formats, software licensing agreements and upgrades. Finally, free tools and freedom of choice!” (tags: ibm lotus OpenDocument … Continue reading →

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Accessibility, OpenOffice.org, ODF

Posted on September 15, 2007 by Bob Sutor

Rich Schwerdtfeger has a discussion of some of IBM’s recent accessibility work involving Lotus Notes 8, mentions that IBM will be donating some accessibility code to OpenOffice.org, and clears up some misconceptions about the IAccessible2 API over in his IBM … Continue reading →

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links for 2007-09-11

Posted on September 11, 2007 by Bob Sutor

Two OOXML “Standards,” Microsoft’s and ECMA’s? Frankly Speaking: Microsoft’s Cynicism “After all this work to make OOXML a formal, independent standard — a standard created and promoted by Microsoft, remember — Microsoft won’t agree to follow it.” (tags: microsoft ooxml … Continue reading →

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IBM joins OpenOffice.org

Posted on September 10, 2007 by Bob Sutor

See the press release “IBM joins the OpenOffice.org community to develop and promote OpenOffice.org technology”. It says, in part, 10 September 2007 — The OpenOffice.org community today announced that IBM will be joining the community to collaborate on the development … Continue reading →

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links for 2007-08-24

Posted on August 24, 2007 by Bob Sutor

Stocks and Bonds Sun to change stock ticker to JAVA | Tech news blog – CNET News.com Please tell me that MSFT won’t become OOXML on NASDAQ next week. (grin) (tags: sun java) iPod and Open Source Rock the iPod … Continue reading →

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links for 2007-06-25

Posted on June 25, 2007 by Bob Sutor

A Fairway View, but the Window Is Often Broken – New York Times I’m sure these folks were assured that there wouldn’t be any trouble, though it’s hard to understand why they believed that. (tags: golf realestate) OpenOffice conference publishes … Continue reading →

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links for 2007-06-07

Posted on June 7, 2007 by Bob Sutor

Open Office PC World India: Open Office 2.2 “OpenOffice 2.2 provides a superb, very stable Office suite that offers a challenge to Microsoft Office. Free doesn’t mean sub-standard.” (tags: openoffice microsoft) Open Documents, Bullies, and the Choice That People Really … Continue reading →

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Pre-functional official OpenOffice.org software available for the Mac, and that’s good

Posted on June 6, 2007 by Bob Sutor

Would you use software that came with the following warning: WARNING: THIS SOFTWARE MAY CRASH AND MAY DESTROY YOUR DATA DO NOT USE THIS SOFTWARE FOR REAL WORK IN A PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENT

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The age old Mac debate

Posted on May 29, 2007 by Bob Sutor

Over on ZDNet, Christopher Dawson rekindles the old Apple Macintosh debate in his piece “Macintosh…Help me understand why.” I’ve observed these discussions from a distance for over twenty years, but they were always abstract to me since I didn’t own … Continue reading →

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Not blogging with OpenOffice

Posted on May 12, 2007 by Bob Sutor

I just saw a search hit on this blog where someone was searching for “blogging with OpenOffice.” (I know I’m supposed to say OpenOffice.org, but it’s hard to get in that habit.) I don’t blog from OOo, but I wouldn’t … Continue reading →

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Trends and new found personal freedoms

Posted on May 10, 2007 by Bob Sutor

I don’t consider myself completely typical in my use of IT, but I do get around enough to see what is happening in the industry, in universities, and even in airports around the world. I’ve observed the following:

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Challenging the knee-jerk use of .doc in education

Posted on May 3, 2007 by Bob Sutor

I was pointed to this from SolidOffice. The article is “Critical Thinking About Word and .doc” in Kairosnews: A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy. It is must reading, in my opinion, if you just keep using .doc in … Continue reading →

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links for 2007-04-05

Posted on April 5, 2007 by Bob Sutor

Are You Capable? Microsoft sued over Vista branding | CNET News.com “A lawsuit, filed in Seattle, alleges that the company advertised systems as “Vista capable,” when in fact the systems were not able to run Vista properly.” (tags: microsoft vista) … Continue reading →

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links for 2007-04-02

Posted on April 2, 2007 by Bob Sutor

Obama Is First in Their Second Life – The Caucus – Politics – New York Times Blog “The Times regularly brings you reporting from Baghdad, Moscow and Des Moines. But can any of those datelines really compare to SILICON ISLAND, … Continue reading →

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Second Life February metrics now available in OpenDocument Format

Posted on March 27, 2007 by Bob Sutor

There’s an interesting paragraph over in a blog posting on the official Linden Labs Second Life site: The Excel document of these metrics is available here, and by popular (and logical – thank you JayR) demand, the OpenOffice format of … Continue reading →

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links for 2007-03-17

Posted on March 17, 2007 by Bob Sutor

Open Source Receiving department to host computing equipment sale – News “Chuck Elliot, Marshall University Computing Services director of customer services said …buyers will be given free anti-virus software and Open Office, a program comparable to Microsoft Office.” More ODF … Continue reading →

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links for 2007-02-08

Posted on February 8, 2007 by Bob Sutor

OpenDocument Software Gains Momentum – Microsoft Office, ODF – CRN “Texas and Minnesota’s willingness to adopt the OpenDocument Format (ODF) as a statewide standard for office software may prompt other states to seriously consider alternatives to Microsoft’s products.” (tags: odf … Continue reading →

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AP: Amsterdam to give open source a try

Posted on December 26, 2006 by Bob Sutor

The Associated Press is saying that Amsterdam is going to be trying out open source software to see if it can lead to more widespread use: City spokeswoman Marjolijn van Goethem said Amsterdam’s housing department and one of its borough … Continue reading →

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links for 2006-12-05

Posted on December 5, 2006 by Bob Sutor

Education and Careers tryscience.org Site with science projects and links to science museums. (tags: science fun Education museum) Welcome to TryEngineering.org “This is a portal about engineering and engineering careers, and we hope it will help young people understand better … Continue reading →

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Novell, Open XML, whatever

Posted on December 4, 2006 by Bob Sutor

There’s some news today regarding Novell adding Open XML support into their flavor of OpenOffice.org. No disrespect intended, but I absolutely stand by what I said in my blog entry “Is Open XML a one way specification for most people?”. … Continue reading →

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