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Log: Planet run at Sat May 31 13:00:14 BST 2008 File Changes: Directory: /marketing/www/planet/ ================================= File [changed]: atom.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/atom.xml?r1=1.510&r2=1.511 Delta lines: +31 -24 --------------------- --- atom.xml 2008-05-31 06:00:04+0000 1.510 +++ atom.xml 2008-05-31 12:00:04+0000 1.511 @@ -5,9 +5,34 @@ <link rel="self" href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/atom.xml"/> <link href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/"/> <id>http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/atom.xml</id> - <updated>2008-05-31T06:00:21+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-05-31T12:00:23+00:00</updated> <generator uri="http://www.planetplanet.org/";>Planet/2.0 +http://www.planetplanet.org</generator> + <entry xml:lang="en"> + <title type="html">Open Source and the Enterprise</title> + <link href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/05/31/open-source-and-the-enterprise/"/> + <id>http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=509</id> + <updated>2008-05-31T09:22:44+00:00</updated> + <content type="html"><p>The Strategy &amp; Architecture team at work produce a quarterly journal <em>Perspectives on Technology</em>. It&#8217;s an in-house publication, with a distribution list of three hundred or so senior managers and influencers in the organisation. I&#8217;ve just got a &#8216;hot off the press&#8217; copy of the Summer 2008 edition which includes an article on open source by yours truly. As the Group&#8217;s Chief Architect says in his introduction: <em>&#8220;The article exploring the benefits and challenges of Open Source software may create some debate&#8221;</em> - well, that was the intention <img src="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif" alt=";)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p> +<p>I&#8217;ll put up a copy here once the pdf version is available, but in the meantime I was interested to read <a href="http://www.cio.com/article/375916/Open_Source_is_Entering_the_Enterprise_Mainstream_Survey_Shows">a report of a survey undertaken by CIO.com</a>:</p> +<blockquote><p>The statistics from a CIO.com survey make it clear: Open-source solutions are becoming more commonplace in corporate IT, if not precisely mundane. The study also identifies where the friction is in business open-source adoption, and which application types are most popular.</p></blockquote> +<p>Most interesting was a 45% usage figure for <a href="http://why.openoffice.org">OpenOffice.org</a> - a higher market share than expected.</p> +<p>While following up links, I also came across <a href="http://resources.zdnet.co.uk/articles/casestudy/0,1000001994,39303425-2,00.htm">this article in ZDNet</a> about <a href="http://www.specsavers.co.uk">Specsavers</a>:</p> +<blockquote><p>Specsavers is approaching open-source software as a strategic investment that will give it control over the future direction of the company&#8217;s infrastructure. Open source means that Specsavers can choose when to upgrade and can take its choice of software packages, because they&#8217;re all interoperable &#8230; more UK companies are beginning to show a serious interest in open source. The only thing holding them back is &#8220;inertia&#8221;, Taylor said. Other UK companies with a board-level interest in open source include Malmaison and Unilever.</p></blockquote> +<p>The UK isn&#8217;t exactly a hot bed of open source adoption, so I was pleased to find these references to point people to when they start asking questions as a result of the article in <em>Perspectives</em>.</p></content> + <author> + <name>John McCreesh</name> + <uri>http://www.mealldubh.org</uri> + </author> + <source> + <title type="html">Meall Dubh » OpenOffice.org</title> + <subtitle type="html">a view from a dark hill</subtitle> + <link rel="self" href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed"/> + <id>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed</id> + <updated>2008-05-31T12:00:15+00:00</updated> + </source> + </entry> + <entry xml:lang="en-us"> <title type="html">Survey: Strong Use of Open Source Desktop Applications</title> <link href="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/survey_strong_use_of_open"/> @@ -122,7 +147,7 @@ <title type="html">jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader</title> <link rel="self" href="http://www.google.co.uk/reader/public/atom/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast"/> <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast</id> - <updated>2008-05-31T06:00:17+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-05-31T12:00:18+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -225,7 +250,7 @@ <title type="html">jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader</title> <link rel="self" href="http://www.google.co.uk/reader/public/atom/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast"/> <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast</id> - <updated>2008-05-31T06:00:17+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-05-31T12:00:18+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -265,7 +290,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">a view from a dark hill</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed"/> <id>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed</id> - <updated>2008-05-25T12:00:15+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-05-31T12:00:15+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -283,7 +308,7 @@ <title type="html">jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader</title> <link rel="self" href="http://www.google.co.uk/reader/public/atom/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast"/> <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast</id> - <updated>2008-05-31T06:00:17+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-05-31T12:00:18+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -415,7 +440,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">a view from a dark hill</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed"/> <id>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed</id> - <updated>2008-05-25T12:00:15+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-05-31T12:00:15+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -469,22 +494,4 @@ </source> </entry> - <entry> - <title type="html">Announcing the Sun Presenter Console</title> - <link href="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/announcing_the_sun_presenter_console"/> - <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/8bd350863b2c00ed</id> - <updated>2008-05-21T13:04:58+00:00</updated> - <content type="html"><p>I would like to announce the public availability of the Sun Presenter Console (beta), previously known as Presenter Screen, previously known as Presenter View.</p><p>The Presenter Console extension supports presenters by showing information that is not visible to the audience.  A typical environment would be a laptop showing the Presenter Console and a connected beamer showing the actual presentation to the audience. Initially the Presenter Console extension shows a live preview of the current slide, a preview of the next slide and tool bar with navigational buttons and the current and elapsed time: <br /></p><p><img vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0" align="bottom" alt="Initial view of the Presenter Console extension" src="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/w/images/thumb/9/90/PresenterScreenMain.jpg/300px-PresenterScreenMain.jpg" /> </p><p>The presenter has access to the notes of the current slide:<br /></p><p><img vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0" align="bottom" alt="Notes view of the Presenter Console extension" src="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/w/images/thumb/0/00/PresenterScreenNotes.jpg/300px-PresenterScreenNotes.jpg" /></p><p>The slide overview gives easy and fast access to any slide of the presentation, handy not only in a Q&amp;A session: </p><p><img vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0" align="bottom" alt="Slide overview of the Presenter Console extension" src="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/w/images/thumb/d/de/PresenterScreenSlides.jpg/300px-PresenterScreenSlides.jpg" /></p><p>We have tried to make the Presenter Console as easily usable as possible by avoiding unnecessary buttons, options, features.  It automatically detects when there is only one display and does not show in this case. When there are at least two screens then the Presenter Console displays itself on the one that is not used by the presentation.</p><p>You can download the extension from the <a title="Presenter Console at the OpenOffice.org extension repository" href="http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/presenter-screen">extension repository</a>. More information can be found in the <a title="Presenter Console in the OpenOffice.org Wiki" href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Presenter_Screen">Wiki</a>.</p><p>Please note that this is a beta version. While fully functional, there are some minor problems as listed on the Wiki page. More importantly, we are interested in your feedback. You can add comments here or drop a note on the mailing lists, preferably to <a title="[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list" href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">[EMAIL PROTECTED]</a></p><p> </p></content> - <author> - <name>Andre Fischer</name> - <uri></uri> - </author> - <source> - <title type="html">jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader</title> - <link rel="self" href="http://www.google.co.uk/reader/public/atom/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast"/> - <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast</id> - <updated>2008-05-31T06:00:17+00:00</updated> - </source> - </entry> - </feed> File [changed]: index.html Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/index.html?r1=1.510&r2=1.511 Delta lines: +21 -15 --------------------- --- index.html 2008-05-31 06:00:05+0000 1.510 +++ index.html 2008-05-31 12:00:05+0000 1.511 @@ -34,10 +34,30 @@ <a href="rss20.xml"><img src="rss2.gif" alt="Link to RSS 2 feed" /></a> </div> -<p><em>Bloggings on marketing topics by project members - see <a href="#disclaimer">disclaimer</a>.<br />Last updated: May 31, 2008 06:00 AM GMT</em></p> +<p><em>Bloggings on marketing topics by project members - see <a href="#disclaimer">disclaimer</a>.<br />Last updated: May 31, 2008 12:00 PM GMT</em></p> <h2>May 31, 2008</h2> <h3> +<a href="http://www.mealldubh.org"; title="Meall Dubh » OpenOffice.org"> +John McCreesh</a> : +<a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/05/31/open-source-and-the-enterprise/";> +Open Source and the Enterprise</a> +</h3> +<p> +<p>The Strategy & Architecture team at work produce a quarterly journal <em>Perspectives on Technology</em>. 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 by yours truly. As the Group’s Chief Architect says in his introduction: <em>“The article exploring the benefits and challenges of Open Source software may create some debate”</em> - well, that was the intention <img src="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif"; alt=";)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p> +<p>I’ll put up a copy here once the pdf version is available, but in the meantime I was interested to read <a href="http://www.cio.com/article/375916/Open_Source_is_Entering_the_Enterprise_Mainstream_Survey_Shows";>a report of a survey undertaken by CIO.com</a>:</p> +<blockquote><p>The statistics from a CIO.com survey make it clear: Open-source solutions are becoming more commonplace in corporate IT, if not precisely mundane. The study also identifies where the friction is in business open-source adoption, and which application types are most popular.</p></blockquote> +<p>Most interesting was a 45% usage figure for <a href="http://why.openoffice.org";>OpenOffice.org</a> - a higher market share than expected.</p> +<p>While following up links, I also came across <a href="http://resources.zdnet.co.uk/articles/casestudy/0,1000001994,39303425-2,00.htm";>this article in ZDNet</a> about <a href="http://www.specsavers.co.uk";>Specsavers</a>:</p> +<blockquote><p>Specsavers is approaching open-source software as a strategic investment that will give it control over the future direction of the company’s infrastructure. Open source means that Specsavers can choose when to upgrade and can take its choice of software packages, because they’re all interoperable … more UK companies are beginning to show a serious interest in open source. The only thing holding them back is “inertia”, Taylor said. Other UK companies with a board-level interest in open source include Malmaison and Unilever.</p></blockquote> +<p>The UK isn’t exactly a hot bed of open source adoption, so I was pleased to find these references to point people to when they start asking questions as a result of the article in <em>Perspectives</em>.</p></p> +<p> +<em><a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/05/31/open-source-and-the-enterprise/";>by John at May 31, 2008 09:22 AM GMT</a></em> +</p> +<br /> +<hr /> +<br /> +<h3> <a href="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/"; title="Erwin's StarOffice Tango"> Erwin Tenhumberg</a> : <a href="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/survey_strong_use_of_open";> @@ -408,20 +428,6 @@ <br /> <hr /> <br /> -<h3> -<a href="" title="jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader"> -GullFOSS</a> : -<a href="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/announcing_the_sun_presenter_console";> -Announcing the Sun Presenter Console</a> -</h3> -<p> -<p>I would like to announce the public availability of the Sun Presenter Console (beta), previously known as Presenter Screen, previously known as Presenter View.</p><p>The Presenter Console extension supports presenters by showing information that is not visible to the audience.  A typical environment would be a laptop showing the Presenter Console and a connected beamer showing the actual presentation to the audience. Initially the Presenter Console extension shows a live preview of the current slide, a preview of the next slide and tool bar with navigational buttons and the current and elapsed time: <br /></p><p><img vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0" align="bottom" alt="Initial view of the Presenter Console extension" src="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/w/images/thumb/9/90/PresenterScreenMain.jpg/300px-PresenterScreenMain.jpg"; /> </p><p>The presenter has access to the notes of the current slide:<br /></p><p><img vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0" align="bottom" alt="Notes view of the Presenter Console extension" src="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/w/images/thumb/0/00/PresenterScreenNotes.jpg/300px-PresenterScreenNotes.jpg"; /></p><p>The slide overview gives easy and fast access to any slide of the presentation, handy not only in a Q&A session: </p><p><img vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0" align="bottom" alt="Slide overview of the Presenter Console extension" src="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/w/images/thumb/d/de/PresenterScreenSlides.jpg/300px-PresenterScreenSlides.jpg"; /></p><p>We have tried to make the Presenter Console as easily usable as possible by avoiding unnecessary buttons, options, features.  It automatically detects when there is only one display and does not show in this case. When there are at least two screens then the Presenter Console displays itself on the one that is not used by the presentation.</p><p>You can download the extension from the <a title="Presenter Console at the OpenOffice.org extension repository" href="http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/presenter-screen";>extension repository</a>. More information can be found in the <a title="Presenter Console in the OpenOffice.org Wiki" href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Presenter_Screen";>Wiki</a>.</p><p>Please note that this is a beta version. While fully functional, there are some minor problems as listed on the Wiki page. More importantly, we are interested in your feedback. You can add comments here or drop a note on the mailing lists, preferably to <a title="[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list" href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">[EMAIL PROTECTED]</a></p><p> </p></p> -<p> -<em><a href="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/announcing_the_sun_presenter_console";>by Andre Fischer at May 21, 2008 01:04 PM GMT</a></em> -</p> -<br /> -<hr /> -<br /> <a id="disclaimer" name="disclaimer"></a> <p><em>Disclaimer: all views expressed on this page are those of the individual contributors, and may not reflect the views of the File [changed]: opml.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/opml.xml?r1=1.510&r2=1.511 Delta lines: +1 -1 ------------------- --- opml.xml 2008-05-31 06:00:06+0000 1.510 +++ opml.xml 2008-05-31 12:00:05+0000 1.511 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ <opml version="1.1"> <head> <title>Marketing Planet</title> - <dateModified>Sat, 31 May 2008 06:00:21 +0000</dateModified> + <dateModified>Sat, 31 May 2008 12:00:23 +0000</dateModified> <ownerName>Marketing Project</ownerName> <ownerEmail>[EMAIL PROTECTED]</ownerEmail> </head> File [changed]: rss10.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/rss10.xml?r1=1.284&r2=1.285 Delta lines: +13 -8 -------------------- --- rss10.xml 2008-05-31 06:00:06+0000 1.284 +++ rss10.xml 2008-05-31 12:00:05+0000 1.285 @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ <items> <rdf:Seq> + <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=509"; 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It&#8217;s an in-house publication, with a distribution list of three hundred or so senior managers and influencers in the organisation. I&#8217;ve just got a &#8216;hot off the press&#8217; copy of the Summer 2008 edition which includes an article on open source by yours truly. As the Group&#8217;s Chief Architect says in his introduction: <em>&#8220;The article exploring the benefits and challenges of Open Source software may create some debate&#8221;</em> - well, that was the intention <img src="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif" alt=";)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p> +<p>I&#8217;ll put up a copy here once the pdf version is available, but in the meantime I was interested to read <a href="http://www.cio.com/article/375916/Open_Source_is_Entering_the_Enterprise_Mainstream_Survey_Shows">a report of a survey undertaken by CIO.com</a>:</p> +<blockquote><p>The statistics from a CIO.com survey make it clear: Open-source solutions are becoming more commonplace in corporate IT, if not precisely mundane. The study also identifies where the friction is in business open-source adoption, and which application types are most popular.</p></blockquote> +<p>Most interesting was a 45% usage figure for <a href="http://why.openoffice.org">OpenOffice.org</a> - a higher market share than expected.</p> +<p>While following up links, I also came across <a href="http://resources.zdnet.co.uk/articles/casestudy/0,1000001994,39303425-2,00.htm">this article in ZDNet</a> about <a href="http://www.specsavers.co.uk">Specsavers</a>:</p> +<blockquote><p>Specsavers is approaching open-source software as a strategic investment that will give it control over the future direction of the company&#8217;s infrastructure. Open source means that Specsavers can choose when to upgrade and can take its choice of software packages, because they&#8217;re all interoperable &#8230; more UK companies are beginning to show a serious interest in open source. The only thing holding them back is &#8220;inertia&#8221;, Taylor said. Other UK companies with a board-level interest in open source include Malmaison and Unilever.</p></blockquote> +<p>The UK isn&#8217;t exactly a hot bed of open source adoption, so I was pleased to find these references to point people to when they start asking questions as a result of the article in <em>Perspectives</em>.</p></content:encoded> + <dc:date>2008-05-31T09:22:44+00:00</dc:date> +</item> <item rdf:about="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/survey_strong_use_of_open";> <title>Erwin Tenhumberg: Survey: Strong Use of Open Source Desktop Applications</title> <link>http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/survey_strong_use_of_open</link> @@ -254,12 +266,5 @@ <content:encoded>OpenOffice.org will have a strong presence at <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2008/en/home/welcome.html">LinuxTag 2008 in Berlin</a>. In the Sun booth, OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta will be demo'd including two new OpenOffice.org extensions, the Sun PDF Import Extension and the Sun Presenter Console. Mozilla Thunderbird and Lightning will be shown as well. In addition, there will be quite a few OpenOffice.org sessions as part of the conference program.</content:encoded> <dc:date>2008-05-21T16:10:33+00:00</dc:date> </item> -<item rdf:about="tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/8bd350863b2c00ed"> - <title>GullFOSS: Announcing the Sun Presenter Console</title> - <link>http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/announcing_the_sun_presenter_console</link> - <content:encoded><p>I would like to announce the public availability of the Sun Presenter Console (beta), previously known as Presenter Screen, previously known as Presenter View.</p><p>The Presenter Console extension supports presenters by showing information that is not visible to the audience.  A typical environment would be a laptop showing the Presenter Console and a connected beamer showing the actual presentation to the audience. Initially the Presenter Console extension shows a live preview of the current slide, a preview of the next slide and tool bar with navigational buttons and the current and elapsed time: <br /></p><p><img vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0" align="bottom" alt="Initial view of the Presenter Console extension" src="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/w/images/thumb/9/90/PresenterScreenMain.jpg/300px-PresenterScreenMain.jpg" /> </p><p>The presenter has access to the notes of the current slide:<br /></p><p><img vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0" align="bottom" alt="Notes view of the Presenter Console extension" src="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/w/images/thumb/0/00/PresenterScreenNotes.jpg/300px-PresenterScreenNotes.jpg" /></p><p>The slide overview gives easy and fast access to any slide of the presentation, handy not only in a Q&amp;A session: </p><p><img vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0" align="bottom" alt="Slide overview of the Presenter Console extension" src="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/w/images/thumb/d/de/PresenterScreenSlides.jpg/300px-PresenterScreenSlides.jpg" /></p><p>We have tried to make the Presenter Console as easily usable as possible by avoiding unnecessary buttons, options, features.  It automatically detects when there is only one display and does not show in this case. When there are at least two screens then the Presenter Console displays itself on the one that is not used by the presentation.</p><p>You can download the extension from the <a title="Presenter Console at the OpenOffice.org extension repository" href="http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/presenter-screen">extension repository</a>. More information can be found in the <a title="Presenter Console in the OpenOffice.org Wiki" href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Presenter_Screen">Wiki</a>.</p><p>Please note that this is a beta version. While fully functional, there are some minor problems as listed on the Wiki page. More importantly, we are interested in your feedback. You can add comments here or drop a note on the mailing lists, preferably to <a title="[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list" href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">[EMAIL PROTECTED]</a></p><p> </p></content:encoded> - <dc:date>2008-05-21T13:04:58+00:00</dc:date> - <dc:creator>Andre Fischer</dc:creator> -</item> </rdf:RDF> File [changed]: rss20.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/rss20.xml?r1=1.284&r2=1.285 Delta lines: +13 -7 -------------------- --- rss20.xml 2008-05-31 06:00:07+0000 1.284 +++ rss20.xml 2008-05-31 12:00:06+0000 1.285 @@ -8,6 +8,19 @@ <description>Marketing Planet - http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/</description> <item> + <title>John McCreesh: Open Source and the Enterprise</title> + <guid>http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=509</guid> + <link>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/05/31/open-source-and-the-enterprise/</link> + <description><p>The Strategy &amp; Architecture team at work produce a quarterly journal <em>Perspectives on Technology</em>. It&#8217;s an in-house publication, with a distribution list of three hundred or so senior managers and influencers in the organisation. I&#8217;ve just got a &#8216;hot off the press&#8217; copy of the Summer 2008 edition which includes an article on open source by yours truly. As the Group&#8217;s Chief Architect says in his introduction: <em>&#8220;The article exploring the benefits and challenges of Open Source software may create some debate&#8221;</em> - well, that was the intention <img src="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif" alt=";)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p> +<p>I&#8217;ll put up a copy here once the pdf version is available, but in the meantime I was interested to read <a href="http://www.cio.com/article/375916/Open_Source_is_Entering_the_Enterprise_Mainstream_Survey_Shows">a report of a survey undertaken by CIO.com</a>:</p> +<blockquote><p>The statistics from a CIO.com survey make it clear: Open-source solutions are becoming more commonplace in corporate IT, if not precisely mundane. The study also identifies where the friction is in business open-source adoption, and which application types are most popular.</p></blockquote> +<p>Most interesting was a 45% usage figure for <a href="http://why.openoffice.org">OpenOffice.org</a> - a higher market share than expected.</p> +<p>While following up links, I also came across <a href="http://resources.zdnet.co.uk/articles/casestudy/0,1000001994,39303425-2,00.htm">this article in ZDNet</a> about <a href="http://www.specsavers.co.uk">Specsavers</a>:</p> +<blockquote><p>Specsavers is approaching open-source software as a strategic investment that will give it control over the future direction of the company&#8217;s infrastructure. Open source means that Specsavers can choose when to upgrade and can take its choice of software packages, because they&#8217;re all interoperable &#8230; more UK companies are beginning to show a serious interest in open source. The only thing holding them back is &#8220;inertia&#8221;, Taylor said. Other UK companies with a board-level interest in open source include Malmaison and Unilever.</p></blockquote> +<p>The UK isn&#8217;t exactly a hot bed of open source adoption, so I was pleased to find these references to point people to when they start asking questions as a result of the article in <em>Perspectives</em>.</p></description> + <pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2008 09:22:44 +0000</pubDate> +</item> +<item> <title>Erwin Tenhumberg: Survey: Strong Use of Open Source Desktop Applications</title> <guid>http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/survey_strong_use_of_open</guid> <link>http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/survey_strong_use_of_open</link> @@ -240,13 +253,6 @@ <description>OpenOffice.org will have a strong presence at <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2008/en/home/welcome.html">LinuxTag 2008 in Berlin</a>. In the Sun booth, OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta will be demo'd including two new OpenOffice.org extensions, the Sun PDF Import Extension and the Sun Presenter Console. Mozilla Thunderbird and Lightning will be shown as well. In addition, there will be quite a few OpenOffice.org sessions as part of the conference program.</description> <pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 16:10:33 +0000</pubDate> </item> -<item> - <title>GullFOSS: Announcing the Sun Presenter Console</title> - <guid>tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/8bd350863b2c00ed</guid> - <link>http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/announcing_the_sun_presenter_console</link> - <description><p>I would like to announce the public availability of the Sun Presenter Console (beta), previously known as Presenter Screen, previously known as Presenter View.</p><p>The Presenter Console extension supports presenters by showing information that is not visible to the audience.  A typical environment would be a laptop showing the Presenter Console and a connected beamer showing the actual presentation to the audience. Initially the Presenter Console extension shows a live preview of the current slide, a preview of the next slide and tool bar with navigational buttons and the current and elapsed time: <br /></p><p><img vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0" align="bottom" alt="Initial view of the Presenter Console extension" src="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/w/images/thumb/9/90/PresenterScreenMain.jpg/300px-PresenterScreenMain.jpg" /> </p><p>The presenter has access to the notes of the current slide:<br /></p><p><img vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0" align="bottom" alt="Notes view of the Presenter Console extension" src="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/w/images/thumb/0/00/PresenterScreenNotes.jpg/300px-PresenterScreenNotes.jpg" /></p><p>The slide overview gives easy and fast access to any slide of the presentation, handy not only in a Q&amp;A session: </p><p><img vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0" align="bottom" alt="Slide overview of the Presenter Console extension" src="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/w/images/thumb/d/de/PresenterScreenSlides.jpg/300px-PresenterScreenSlides.jpg" /></p><p>We have tried to make the Presenter Console as easily usable as possible by avoiding unnecessary buttons, options, features.  It automatically detects when there is only one display and does not show in this case. When there are at least two screens then the Presenter Console displays itself on the one that is not used by the presentation.</p><p>You can download the extension from the <a title="Presenter Console at the OpenOffice.org extension repository" href="http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/presenter-screen">extension repository</a>. More information can be found in the <a title="Presenter Console in the OpenOffice.org Wiki" href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Presenter_Screen">Wiki</a>.</p><p>Please note that this is a beta version. While fully functional, there are some minor problems as listed on the Wiki page. More importantly, we are interested in your feedback. You can add comments here or drop a note on the mailing lists, preferably to <a title="[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list" href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">[EMAIL PROTECTED]</a></p><p> </p></description> - <pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 13:04:58 +0000</pubDate> -</item> </channel> </rss> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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