The Strategy & Architecture team at work produce a quarterly journal Perspectives on Technology. It’s an in-house publication, with a distribution list of three hundred or so senior managers and influencers in the organisation. I’ve just got a ‘hot off the press’ copy of the Summer 2008 edition which includes an article on open source [...]
I just had an email from Alex at IT Reviews to say OpenOffice.org 2.4 has been reviewed and awarded their ‘Recommended’ award (that’s the little blue logo on the right). There’s been quite a spate of these recently – CHIP Download of the Day, Duke’s Choice Fans’ Award 2008, Linux Journal’s 2008 Readers’ Choice Award for [...]
News sources are starting to leak the news that Microsoft is about to announce support for Open Document Format (ODF) in MS-Office 2007, and will participate in the ongoing development of ODF through OASIS, the industry body for XML standards. This fairly arcane announcement has the potential to revolutionise the way we use office documents [...]
BBC Click has discovered open source. There’s an article about it, or you can watch the programme. You need to wait for 5 minutes 47 seconds before OpenOffice.org is mentioned I think the broadcast is only online for a week…
From time to time I receive emails asking me when will OpenOffice.org have a desktop publishing (DTP) program. My reply is always the same: “Have you tried Writer”? Although we position Writer as a word processing package, in the hands of an expert user it can do so much more, well into the realms of [...]
GCN reports on Juergen Schmidt’s talk about using OpenOffice.org Extensions as an alternative to conventional macro languages. Macros have introduced many people to ‘computer programming’ – sometimes with disastrous results, for example when the office ‘macro expert’ quits the company, leaving a mass of incomprehensible code behind. Maybe extensions could be a better solution?
Despite being down in England today, I managed to get the Call for Papers page live today on the OpenOffice.org website. There’s also the usual announcement on the home page and a little piece on the news page. The OpenOffice.org Annual Conference (OOoCon 2008) site is now also online in outline. It will be expanded [...]
