By carefully monitoring how we use electricity in the house, we’ve got our consumption down to around 550W average over the year (down from a peak of 1.75kW five years ago). With our urban location, generating our own power isn’t an option, so after shopping around the ‘green’ credentials of the various companies, we were [...]
Five months (163 days) since release, and OpenOffice.org 3.0 yesterday clocked up its 50 millionth download via http://download.openoffice.org. OK, we know there are many good reasons why OpenOffice.org should be on everyone’s desktop, but thi is still an extraordinary achievement.
For a daily update on downloads, see the counter on the Marketing Project Planet.
We recently spent a great weekend with two of the most committed ‘greens’ we know. They were just starting lambing on their farm in Galloway, but still managed to find time to sit and debate the world, sitting round the Aga in their farmhouse kitchen.
I’m almost embarrassed to send them a link to a transcript [...]
So by now everyone will have heard the rumours that IBM is considering making a bid for Sun Microsystems, founder and principle sponsor of the OpenOffice.org project.
So, if this goes ahead – and it is only a rumour – what might this mean for OpenOffice.org? Sun’s role in OpenOffice.org has been the subject of sporadic [...]
I’ve been working on the List of new Features for OpenOffice.org 3.1.
I’ve been doing all my everyday work using the various developers’ snaphots of 3.1 for some time now (yes, I know you shouldn’t, but I do back up my PC weekly…). There are some significant and much-requested new features this time – e.g. persistent [...]
Those of you who keep an eye on the OpenOffice.org downloads counter on the Marketing Planet will have noticed it creeping towards the 50 million mark (my guess is that it will reach the magic number early in the week beginning 23rd March). This is an extraordinary number of downloads since OpenOffice.org 3.0 was launched [...]
We’ve been gradually adding to the range of services offered on our OpenOffice.org “services” website. The latest addition is the most comprehensive OpenOffice.org Planet to date.
If the sheer volume of postings there is too much for you, there’s a list of other Planets and individual bloggers on the OpenOffice.org Bloggers Page – or you can [...]
