The maintainers of PortableApps have now brought their version of OpenOffice.org right up to date with the release of OpenOffice.org Portable 2.4. This is a really brilliant idea – you can carry your favourite office suite on a USB stick and run it on any computer running MS-Windows. It’s configured to run entirely on the [...]
Announcing new releases of OpenOffice.org usually triggers some emails from happy customers. Here’s one just arrived: Hey, John! I just want to let you know I really love the OpenOffice suite. I’ve been using it now for a couple of years and always install the next upgrade. I have been telling others for quite awhile [...]
We made the formal announcement today that the recently released OpenOffice.org 2.4 included some security vulnerabily fixes. We normally release this information when the software is released. This time, Sun Microsystems had not completed the necessary US export classification process for StarOffice at the launch date, so we held back the announcement until StarOffice was [...]
Those of you intending to go to the OpenOffice.org Conference (OOoCon 2008) in Beijing this year may have already pencilled in October 15-17th, based on the original proposal from the Beijing team. Unfortunately no-one thought to mention until recently that holiday dates in Germany (where many of the Sun engineers are based) clashed with this [...]
Some interesting news in Computer Weekly A deal struck by government CIO John Suffolk and the Cabinet Office could save the public sector billions of pounds by supplying networked, supported PCs for around half the typical price. … The Cabinet Office’s price of £800 to £1,000 per PC – according to the numbers bought – [...]
I’m always looking for opportunities to promote open source in general (and OpenOffice.org in particular) outwith the “FOSS ghetto”. The day job is not exactly a hotbed of open source (at our last corporate Technology Conference, Steve Balmer gave a video keynote about what a great customer we are). So when I noticed that our [...]
