reduce presentation stress
In giving 2 presentations last week at the UK Hyperion conference, it was great to have Oracle Open Office installed with the Oracle Presenter Console extension. This allows users to view the current slide, notes, the upcoming slide and timing details: Using the console made it easy to present and keep on time. The extension [...]
OpenOffice 3.2.1 security and bug fix released
OpenOffice 3.2.1 is released today and contains bug and security updates as well as a brand refresh, which can be seen in the splash screen image. The fixes list can be found here and the release notes here. Also just over 29.8 million downloads have occurred since version 3.2 was announced. What a way to celebrate your 10th birthday!! (Thanks [...]
change and excitement
The only thing constant is change1 (and death and taxes) and that quote seems very appropriate lately with Sun becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of Oracle. But that is only the starter: Oracle announced the Sun Strategy last week in a mammoth 5 hour presentation – of which you can grab highlights here. I’ve only [...]
OpenOffice 3.2/StarOffice 9.2 around the corner
While it seems that in some respects the world has been standing still with the Oracle acquisition, there is lots of hard work being done by dedicated engineers inside and outside Sun Microsystems. One more example is the soon to be released OpenOffice 3.2/ StarOffice 9.2 updates, this is both a feature and bug release [...]
open source software and survival of the fittest
There has been lots of recent discussions about open source and how that either helps or hinders proprietary software, depending on your point of view. Open Source Software (OSS) is starting to gain more momentum: Firefox has almost 25% market share in December, 440 million downloads of Firefox 3.5 OpenOffice has over 100 million downloads [...]
sunny little clouds
A lot has been happening recently with little spare time so here’s some catch up items: Sun announced last month that it has beta testing (internally) a cloud option within Sun. So what’s the Cloud appeal? 2 items really: 1. Allowing faster implementation – once cloud infrastructure and applications are in place, connecting or adding [...]
Problems with eating dogfood
No, I’m not getting any crazy cravings, I’m talking about the old adage of a company "eating it’s own dogfood" – in other terms using what it makes. Working for Sun definitely has it’s privileges, with early access to new software releases although that does have it’s downside too. I discovered one recently when playing [...]
