User: jpmcc Date: 2008-06-06 00:00:03+0000 Modified: marketing/www/planet/atom.xml marketing/www/planet/index.html marketing/www/planet/opml.xml marketing/www/planet/rss10.xml marketing/www/planet/rss20.xml
Log: Planet run at Fri Jun 6 01:00:14 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=1.532&r2=1.533 Delta lines: +51 -58 --------------------- --- atom.xml 2008-06-05 17:59:57+0000 1.532 +++ atom.xml 2008-06-05 23:59:59+0000 1.533 @@ -5,10 +5,51 @@ <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>2008-06-05T18:00:22+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-06-06T00:00:23+00:00</updated> <generator uri="http://www.planetplanet.org/";>Planet/2.0 +http://www.planetplanet.org</generator> <entry> + <title type="html">Cross reference in OpenOffice.org 3.0</title> + <link href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2008/06/cross-reference-in-openofficeorg-30.html"/> + <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-4579943621648685696</id> + <updated>2008-06-05T23:10:50+00:00</updated> + <content type="html">The upcoming version of OpenOffice.org contains various improvements. One of the long missing features is, to create cross references directly to headings without creating a bookmark first. All headings in the document are automatically created as targets.</content> + <author> + <name>Leif Lodahl</name> + <email>[EMAIL PROTECTED]</email> + <uri>http://lodahl.blogspot.com/search/label/OpenOffice.org</uri> + </author> + <source> + <title type="html">Lodahl's blog</title> + <link rel="self" href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/-/OpenOffice.org"/> + <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169</id> + <updated>2008-06-06T00:00:22+00:00</updated> + </source> + </entry> + + <entry xml:lang="en"> + <title type="html">Eee Could Sell 10 Million Units Next Year</title> + <link href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/815"/> + <id>http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=815</id> + <updated>2008-06-05T18:22:14+00:00</updated> + <content type="html"><p>Asustek, creator of the innovative and highly-popular ultra mobile Linux-based &#8220;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eee_PC">Eee PC</a>,&#8221; expects to double its sales next year (2009) to <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSTP15771220080602">10 million units</a>. (Some models now use Windows XP instead of Linux, unfortunately.)</p> +<p>The Linux versions all include OpenOffice, which means millions of copies being distributed to new users around the world.</p> +<p>The new market it has defined, &#8220;ultra mobile PCs&#8221; is also set to explode: &#8220;The company, which had previously estimated that it would sell 5 million Eee PCs this year, forecasts low-cost PC sales are set to hit 20-30 million units globally in 2009, Asustek&#8217;s Chief Executive Jerry Shen told reporters.&#8221;</p> +<p>Many other companies have introduced Eee competitors, collecting marketshare on the margins, but the good news is that most of them also offer Linux as the default (or at least an optional) OS.</p></content> + <author> + <name>Benjamin Horst</name> + <uri>http://www.solidoffice.com</uri> + </author> + <source> + <title type="html">SolidOffice » OpenOffice.org</title> + <subtitle type="html">Home of The Tiny Guide to OpenOffice.org</subtitle> + <link rel="self" href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/category/openofficeorg/feed"/> + <id>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/category/openofficeorg/feed</id> + <updated>2008-06-06T00:00:16+00:00</updated> + </source> + </entry> + + <entry> <title type="html">OpenOffice.org in enterpise</title> <link href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2008/06/openofficeorg-in-enterpise.html"/> <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-7949833899193293259</id> @@ -25,7 +66,7 @@ <title type="html">Lodahl's blog</title> <link rel="self" href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/-/OpenOffice.org"/> <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169</id> - <updated>2008-06-05T00:00:29+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-06-06T00:00:22+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -69,7 +110,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">Home of The Tiny Guide to OpenOffice.org</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/category/openofficeorg/feed"/> <id>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/category/openofficeorg/feed</id> - <updated>2008-06-05T00:00:20+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-06-06T00:00:16+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -161,7 +202,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">Home of The Tiny Guide to OpenOffice.org</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/category/openofficeorg/feed"/> <id>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/category/openofficeorg/feed</id> - <updated>2008-06-05T00:00:20+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-06-06T00:00:16+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -212,7 +253,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">Home of The Tiny Guide to OpenOffice.org</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/category/openofficeorg/feed"/> <id>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/category/openofficeorg/feed</id> - <updated>2008-06-05T00:00:20+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-06-06T00:00:16+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -278,7 +319,7 @@ <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>2008-06-05T18:00:17+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-06-06T00:00:17+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -299,7 +340,7 @@ <title type="html">Lodahl's blog</title> <link rel="self" href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/-/OpenOffice.org"/> <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169</id> - <updated>2008-06-05T00:00:29+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-06-06T00:00:22+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -317,7 +358,7 @@ <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>2008-06-05T18:00:17+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-06-06T00:00:17+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -375,7 +416,7 @@ <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>2008-06-05T18:00:17+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-06-06T00:00:17+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -435,55 +476,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">Home of The Tiny Guide to OpenOffice.org</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/category/openofficeorg/feed"/> <id>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/category/openofficeorg/feed</id> - <updated>2008-06-05T00:00:20+00:00</updated> - </source> - </entry> - - <entry xml:lang="en"> - <title type="html">More OOo 3.0 Mac Reviews</title> - <link href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/807"/> - <id>http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=807</id> - <updated>2008-05-22T14:06:09+00:00</updated> - <content type="html"><p>Still in development and not scheduled to be a final release for almost four months, nevertheless OpenOffice 3.0 beta is garnering great reviews around the net.</p> -<p><a href="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/">Erwin Tenhumberg</a> has recently pointed out three such reviews of the Mac OS X version:</p> -<p><a href="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/another_cool_openoffice_org_review">Review One</a>: Reviewed on <a href="http://theappleblog.com/2008/05/12/openofficeorg-30-beta-rocks-aqua-on-intel/">The Apple Blog</a>: &#8220;The first noticeable item is how quickly OpenOffice 3.0 beta loads, even when compared with Microsoft Office 2008. In less than five seconds you are at the welcome screen ready to create your next masterpiece.&#8221;</p> -<p><a href="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/more_openoffice_org_3_0">Review Two</a>: From a <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.mac.apps/msg/027162e3a20b6810">Usenet posting you can read through Google Group</a>s: &#8220;It is more that three times as fast as NeoOffice and more than twice as fast than both MSOffice 2004 and 2008! - And until now i haven&#8217;t had a single &#8216;unexpected quit&#8217; with the last two builds of OOo3.0. - Also the fonts handling is quite a lot better than in NeoOffice and MSO2004/2008.&#8221;</p> -<p><a href="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/cool_openoffice_org_3_0">Review Three</a>: Reviewed by a reader on Macintouch.com: &#8220;I&#8217;m very impressed with the first public release beta of OO for OS X. It is both faster and more stable than the Office 08 demo I tried out. Since I&#8217;m not working in a corporate setting and don&#8217;t need absolute compatibility with Microsoft, I see no reason to purchase Office 2008 for an Intel native office suite. The presentation module isn&#8217;t near as slick as Keynote but the word processing and spreadsheets are more capable than Pages and Numbers. If you need that extra functionality then give OO a try.&#8221;</p></content> - <author> - <name>Benjamin Horst</name> - <uri>http://www.solidoffice.com</uri> - </author> - <source> - <title type="html">SolidOffice » OpenOffice.org</title> - <subtitle type="html">Home of The Tiny Guide to OpenOffice.org</subtitle> - <link rel="self" href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/category/openofficeorg/feed"/> - <id>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/category/openofficeorg/feed</id> - <updated>2008-06-05T00:00:20+00:00</updated> - </source> - </entry> - - <entry xml:lang="en"> - <title type="html">The deadly embrace</title> - <link href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/05/21/the-deadly-embrace/"/> - <id>http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=507</id> - <updated>2008-05-21T22:12:11+00:00</updated> - <content type="html"><p>News sources are starting to <a href="http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/05/21/technology/msft.php">leak the news</a> 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 - the spreadsheets, word processing documents, presentations etc that are churned out in their billions every day.</p> -<p>Traditionally, office software users put a price on their assets by counting up the number of MS-Office licences they had bought. Then people began to realise their real investment - their intellectual property - was in the documents they had created with the software. But the only way they could access their intellectual property was by buying software licences from a monopoly vendor - Microsoft. This didn&#8217;t feel right?</p> -<p>In response to this, the industry standards body OASIS started to draft an open standard for office documents that any software developer could use. Despite being a member of OASIS, Microsoft ignored this activity, even when the resulting Open Document Format (ODF) was adopted by ISO - the highest level of standards.</p> -<p>However, market pressures - especially from public administrations - continued to demand the standard. Microsoft responded in predictable fashion by trying to create its own rival standard, OOXML, and <a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2007/09/01/international-standards-on-trial/">used its considerable influence</a> to get this adopted by ISO. This commercial pressure to adopt a hasty and ill-conceived private standard has nearly broken the international standards process.</p> -<p>However, the pressure for ODF has continued to grow. There was a certain inevitability that Microsoft would be forced to bow to market pressures and announce its acceptance of ODF. However, Microsoft&#8217;s traditional approach to standards has been characterised as <a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2006/07/06/embrace-extend-and-extinguish/">Embrace, Extend, Extinguish</a> - i.e. attempt to claim ownership and take control of a standard through abuse of its near monopoly position.</p> -<p>Proponents of ODF need to defend against this by setting up independent testing for software conformance with the standard. The testing needs to be accessible not just to the Suns and IBMs of this world - but also the KOffices.</p> -<p>While proponents of ODF are <a href="http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20080521092930864">celebrating that a victory has been won</a>, it is more likely that the real battle is only just beginning.</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>2008-06-05T00:00:15+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-06-06T00:00:16+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> File [changed]: index.html Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/index.html?r1=1.532&r2=1.533 Delta lines: +33 -41 --------------------- --- index.html 2008-06-05 17:59:58+0000 1.532 +++ index.html 2008-06-06 00:00:00+0000 1.533 @@ -34,8 +34,40 @@ <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: June 05, 2008 06:00 PM GMT</em></p> +<p><em>Bloggings on marketing topics by project members - see <a href="#disclaimer">disclaimer</a>.<br />Last updated: June 06, 2008 12:00 AM GMT</em></p> +<h2>June 05, 2008</h2> +<h3> +<a href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/search/label/OpenOffice.org"; title="Lodahl's blog"> +Leif Lodahl</a> : +<a href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2008/06/cross-reference-in-openofficeorg-30.html";> +Cross reference in OpenOffice.org 3.0</a> +</h3> +<p> +The upcoming version of OpenOffice.org contains various improvements. One of the long missing features is, to create cross references directly to headings without creating a bookmark first. All headings in the document are automatically created as targets.</p> +<p> +<em><a href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2008/06/cross-reference-in-openofficeorg-30.html";>by Leif Lodahl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) at June 05, 2008 11:10 PM BST</a></em> +</p> +<br /> +<hr /> +<br /> +<h3> +<a href="http://www.solidoffice.com"; title="SolidOffice » OpenOffice.org"> +Benjamin Horst</a> : +<a href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/815";> +Eee Could Sell 10 Million Units Next Year</a> +</h3> +<p> +<p>Asustek, creator of the innovative and highly-popular ultra mobile Linux-based “<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eee_PC";>Eee PC</a>,” expects to double its sales next year (2009) to <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSTP15771220080602";>10 million units</a>. (Some models now use Windows XP instead of Linux, unfortunately.)</p> +<p>The Linux versions all include OpenOffice, which means millions of copies being distributed to new users around the world.</p> +<p>The new market it has defined, “ultra mobile PCs” is also set to explode: “The company, which had previously estimated that it would sell 5 million Eee PCs this year, forecasts low-cost PC sales are set to hit 20-30 million units globally in 2009, Asustek’s Chief Executive Jerry Shen told reporters.”</p> +<p>Many other companies have introduced Eee competitors, collecting marketshare on the margins, but the good news is that most of them also offer Linux as the default (or at least an optional) OS.</p></p> +<p> +<em><a href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/815";>by Benjamin Horst at June 05, 2008 06:22 PM GMT</a></em> +</p> +<br /> +<hr /> +<br /> <h2>June 04, 2008</h2> <h3> <a href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/search/label/OpenOffice.org"; title="Lodahl's blog"> @@ -388,46 +420,6 @@ <br /> <hr /> <br /> -<h2>May 22, 2008</h2> -<h3> -<a href="http://www.solidoffice.com"; title="SolidOffice » OpenOffice.org"> -Benjamin Horst</a> : -<a href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/807";> -More OOo 3.0 Mac Reviews</a> -</h3> -<p> -<p>Still in development and not scheduled to be a final release for almost four months, nevertheless OpenOffice 3.0 beta is garnering great reviews around the net.</p> -<p><a href="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/";>Erwin Tenhumberg</a> has recently pointed out three such reviews of the Mac OS X version:</p> -<p><a href="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/another_cool_openoffice_org_review";>Review One</a>: Reviewed on <a href="http://theappleblog.com/2008/05/12/openofficeorg-30-beta-rocks-aqua-on-intel/";>The Apple Blog</a>: “The first noticeable item is how quickly OpenOffice 3.0 beta loads, even when compared with Microsoft Office 2008. In less than five seconds you are at the welcome screen ready to create your next masterpiece.”</p> -<p><a href="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/more_openoffice_org_3_0";>Review Two</a>: From a <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.mac.apps/msg/027162e3a20b6810";>Usenet posting you can read through Google Group</a>s: “It is more that three times as fast as NeoOffice and more than twice as fast than both MSOffice 2004 and 2008! - And until now i haven’t had a single ‘unexpected quit’ with the last two builds of OOo3.0. - Also the fonts handling is quite a lot better than in NeoOffice and MSO2004/2008.”</p> -<p><a href="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/cool_openoffice_org_3_0";>Review Three</a>: Reviewed by a reader on Macintouch.com: “I’m very impressed with the first public release beta of OO for OS X. It is both faster and more stable than the Office 08 demo I tried out. Since I’m not working in a corporate setting and don’t need absolute compatibility with Microsoft, I see no reason to purchase Office 2008 for an Intel native office suite. The presentation module isn’t near as slick as Keynote but the word processing and spreadsheets are more capable than Pages and Numbers. If you need that extra functionality then give OO a try.”</p></p> -<p> -<em><a href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/807";>by Benjamin Horst at May 22, 2008 02:06 PM GMT</a></em> -</p> -<br /> -<hr /> -<br /> -<h2>May 21, 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/2008/05/21/the-deadly-embrace/";> -The deadly embrace</a> -</h3> -<p> -<p>News sources are starting to <a href="http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/05/21/technology/msft.php";>leak the news</a> 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 - the spreadsheets, word processing documents, presentations etc that are churned out in their billions every day.</p> -<p>Traditionally, office software users put a price on their assets by counting up the number of MS-Office licences they had bought. Then people began to realise their real investment - their intellectual property - was in the documents they had created with the software. But the only way they could access their intellectual property was by buying software licences from a monopoly vendor - Microsoft. This didn’t feel right?</p> -<p>In response to this, the industry standards body OASIS started to draft an open standard for office documents that any software developer could use. Despite being a member of OASIS, Microsoft ignored this activity, even when the resulting Open Document Format (ODF) was adopted by ISO - the highest level of standards.</p> -<p>However, market pressures - especially from public administrations - continued to demand the standard. Microsoft responded in predictable fashion by trying to create its own rival standard, OOXML, and <a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2007/09/01/international-standards-on-trial/";>used its considerable influence</a> to get this adopted by ISO. This commercial pressure to adopt a hasty and ill-conceived private standard has nearly broken the international standards process.</p> -<p>However, the pressure for ODF has continued to grow. There was a certain inevitability that Microsoft would be forced to bow to market pressures and announce its acceptance of ODF. However, Microsoft’s traditional approach to standards has been characterised as <a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2006/07/06/embrace-extend-and-extinguish/";>Embrace, Extend, Extinguish</a> - i.e. attempt to claim ownership and take control of a standard through abuse of its near monopoly position.</p> -<p>Proponents of ODF need to defend against this by setting up independent testing for software conformance with the standard. The testing needs to be accessible not just to the Suns and IBMs of this world - but also the KOffices.</p> -<p>While proponents of ODF are <a href="http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20080521092930864";>celebrating that a victory has been won</a>, it is more likely that the real battle is only just beginning.</p></p> -<p> -<em><a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/05/21/the-deadly-embrace/";>by John at May 21, 2008 10:12 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=1.532&r2=1.533 Delta lines: +1 -1 ------------------- --- opml.xml 2008-06-05 17:59:58+0000 1.532 +++ opml.xml 2008-06-06 00:00:00+0000 1.533 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ <opml version="1.1"> <head> <title>Marketing Planet</title> - <dateModified>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:00:22 +0000</dateModified> + <dateModified>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:00:23 +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=1.294&r2=1.295 Delta lines: +18 -24 --------------------- --- rss10.xml 2008-06-05 00:00:28+0000 1.294 +++ rss10.xml 2008-06-06 00:00:00+0000 1.295 @@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ <items> <rdf:Seq> + <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-4579943621648685696" /> + <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=815"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-7949833899193293259" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=512"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=814"; /> @@ -31,12 +33,26 @@ <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/824ef46f1907ed67" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/05/23/how-to-urinate-on-a-violin/"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=808"; /> - <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=807"; /> - <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=507"; /> </rdf:Seq> </items> </channel> +<item rdf:about="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-4579943621648685696"> + <title>Leif Lodahl: Cross reference in OpenOffice.org 3.0</title> + <link>http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2008/06/cross-reference-in-openofficeorg-30.html</link> + <content:encoded>The upcoming version of OpenOffice.org contains various improvements. One of the long missing features is, to create cross references directly to headings without creating a bookmark first. All headings in the document are automatically created as targets.</content:encoded> + <dc:date>2008-06-05T23:10:50+00:00</dc:date> + <dc:creator>Leif Lodahl</dc:creator> +</item> +<item rdf:about="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=815";> + <title>Benjamin Horst: Eee Could Sell 10 Million Units Next Year</title> + <link>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/815</link> + <content:encoded><p>Asustek, creator of the innovative and highly-popular ultra mobile Linux-based &#8220;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eee_PC">Eee PC</a>,&#8221; expects to double its sales next year (2009) to <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSTP15771220080602">10 million units</a>. (Some models now use Windows XP instead of Linux, unfortunately.)</p> +<p>The Linux versions all include OpenOffice, which means millions of copies being distributed to new users around the world.</p> +<p>The new market it has defined, &#8220;ultra mobile PCs&#8221; is also set to explode: &#8220;The company, which had previously estimated that it would sell 5 million Eee PCs this year, forecasts low-cost PC sales are set to hit 20-30 million units globally in 2009, Asustek&#8217;s Chief Executive Jerry Shen told reporters.&#8221;</p> +<p>Many other companies have introduced Eee competitors, collecting marketshare on the margins, but the good news is that most of them also offer Linux as the default (or at least an optional) OS.</p></content:encoded> + <dc:date>2008-06-05T18:22:14+00:00</dc:date> +</item> <item rdf:about="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-7949833899193293259"> <title>Leif Lodahl: OpenOffice.org in enterpise</title> <link>http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2008/06/openofficeorg-in-enterpise.html</link> @@ -242,27 +258,5 @@ <p><img src="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/w/images/thumb/9/90/PresenterScreenMain.jpg/300px-PresenterScreenMain.jpg" alt="" /></p></content:encoded> <dc:date>2008-05-23T11:40:07+00:00</dc:date> </item> -<item rdf:about="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=807";> - <title>Benjamin Horst: More OOo 3.0 Mac Reviews</title> - <link>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/807</link> - <content:encoded><p>Still in development and not scheduled to be a final release for almost four months, nevertheless OpenOffice 3.0 beta is garnering great reviews around the net.</p> -<p><a href="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/">Erwin Tenhumberg</a> has recently pointed out three such reviews of the Mac OS X version:</p> -<p><a href="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/another_cool_openoffice_org_review">Review One</a>: Reviewed on <a href="http://theappleblog.com/2008/05/12/openofficeorg-30-beta-rocks-aqua-on-intel/">The Apple Blog</a>: &#8220;The first noticeable item is how quickly OpenOffice 3.0 beta loads, even when compared with Microsoft Office 2008. In less than five seconds you are at the welcome screen ready to create your next masterpiece.&#8221;</p> -<p><a href="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/more_openoffice_org_3_0">Review Two</a>: From a <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.mac.apps/msg/027162e3a20b6810">Usenet posting you can read through Google Group</a>s: &#8220;It is more that three times as fast as NeoOffice and more than twice as fast than both MSOffice 2004 and 2008! - And until now i haven&#8217;t had a single &#8216;unexpected quit&#8217; with the last two builds of OOo3.0. - Also the fonts handling is quite a lot better than in NeoOffice and MSO2004/2008.&#8221;</p> -<p><a href="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/cool_openoffice_org_3_0">Review Three</a>: Reviewed by a reader on Macintouch.com: &#8220;I&#8217;m very impressed with the first public release beta of OO for OS X. It is both faster and more stable than the Office 08 demo I tried out. Since I&#8217;m not working in a corporate setting and don&#8217;t need absolute compatibility with Microsoft, I see no reason to purchase Office 2008 for an Intel native office suite. The presentation module isn&#8217;t near as slick as Keynote but the word processing and spreadsheets are more capable than Pages and Numbers. If you need that extra functionality then give OO a try.&#8221;</p></content:encoded> - <dc:date>2008-05-22T14:06:09+00:00</dc:date> -</item> -<item rdf:about="http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=507";> - <title>John McCreesh: The deadly embrace</title> - <link>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/05/21/the-deadly-embrace/</link> - <content:encoded><p>News sources are starting to <a href="http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/05/21/technology/msft.php">leak the news</a> 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 - the spreadsheets, word processing documents, presentations etc that are churned out in their billions every day.</p> -<p>Traditionally, office software users put a price on their assets by counting up the number of MS-Office licences they had bought. Then people began to realise their real investment - their intellectual property - was in the documents they had created with the software. But the only way they could access their intellectual property was by buying software licences from a monopoly vendor - Microsoft. This didn&#8217;t feel right?</p> -<p>In response to this, the industry standards body OASIS started to draft an open standard for office documents that any software developer could use. Despite being a member of OASIS, Microsoft ignored this activity, even when the resulting Open Document Format (ODF) was adopted by ISO - the highest level of standards.</p> -<p>However, market pressures - especially from public administrations - continued to demand the standard. Microsoft responded in predictable fashion by trying to create its own rival standard, OOXML, and <a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2007/09/01/international-standards-on-trial/">used its considerable influence</a> to get this adopted by ISO. This commercial pressure to adopt a hasty and ill-conceived private standard has nearly broken the international standards process.</p> -<p>However, the pressure for ODF has continued to grow. There was a certain inevitability that Microsoft would be forced to bow to market pressures and announce its acceptance of ODF. However, Microsoft&#8217;s traditional approach to standards has been characterised as <a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2006/07/06/embrace-extend-and-extinguish/">Embrace, Extend, Extinguish</a> - i.e. attempt to claim ownership and take control of a standard through abuse of its near monopoly position.</p> -<p>Proponents of ODF need to defend against this by setting up independent testing for software conformance with the standard. The testing needs to be accessible not just to the Suns and IBMs of this world - but also the KOffices.</p> -<p>While proponents of ODF are <a href="http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20080521092930864">celebrating that a victory has been won</a>, it is more likely that the real battle is only just beginning.</p></content:encoded> - <dc:date>2008-05-21T22:12:11+00:00</dc:date> -</item> </rdf:RDF> File [changed]: rss20.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/rss20.xml?r1=1.294&r2=1.295 Delta lines: +18 -24 --------------------- --- rss20.xml 2008-06-05 00:00:29+0000 1.294 +++ rss20.xml 2008-06-06 00:00:00+0000 1.295 @@ -8,6 +8,24 @@ <description>Marketing Planet - http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/</description> <item> + <title>Leif Lodahl: Cross reference in OpenOffice.org 3.0</title> + <guid>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-4579943621648685696</guid> + <link>http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2008/06/cross-reference-in-openofficeorg-30.html</link> + <description>The upcoming version of OpenOffice.org contains various improvements. One of the long missing features is, to create cross references directly to headings without creating a bookmark first. All headings in the document are automatically created as targets.</description> + <pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 23:10:50 +0000</pubDate> + <author>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Leif Lodahl)</author> +</item> +<item> + <title>Benjamin Horst: Eee Could Sell 10 Million Units Next Year</title> + <guid>http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=815</guid> + <link>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/815</link> + <description><p>Asustek, creator of the innovative and highly-popular ultra mobile Linux-based &#8220;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eee_PC">Eee PC</a>,&#8221; expects to double its sales next year (2009) to <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSTP15771220080602">10 million units</a>. (Some models now use Windows XP instead of Linux, unfortunately.)</p> +<p>The Linux versions all include OpenOffice, which means millions of copies being distributed to new users around the world.</p> +<p>The new market it has defined, &#8220;ultra mobile PCs&#8221; is also set to explode: &#8220;The company, which had previously estimated that it would sell 5 million Eee PCs this year, forecasts low-cost PC sales are set to hit 20-30 million units globally in 2009, Asustek&#8217;s Chief Executive Jerry Shen told reporters.&#8221;</p> +<p>Many other companies have introduced Eee competitors, collecting marketshare on the margins, but the good news is that most of them also offer Linux as the default (or at least an optional) OS.</p></description> + <pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:22:14 +0000</pubDate> +</item> +<item> <title>Leif Lodahl: OpenOffice.org in enterpise</title> <guid>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-7949833899193293259</guid> <link>http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2008/06/openofficeorg-in-enterpise.html</link> @@ -227,30 +245,6 @@ <p><img src="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/w/images/thumb/9/90/PresenterScreenMain.jpg/300px-PresenterScreenMain.jpg" alt="" /></p></description> <pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 11:40:07 +0000</pubDate> </item> -<item> - <title>Benjamin Horst: More OOo 3.0 Mac Reviews</title> - <guid>http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=807</guid> - <link>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/807</link> - <description><p>Still in development and not scheduled to be a final release for almost four months, nevertheless OpenOffice 3.0 beta is garnering great reviews around the net.</p> -<p><a href="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/">Erwin Tenhumberg</a> has recently pointed out three such reviews of the Mac OS X version:</p> -<p><a href="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/another_cool_openoffice_org_review">Review One</a>: Reviewed on <a href="http://theappleblog.com/2008/05/12/openofficeorg-30-beta-rocks-aqua-on-intel/">The Apple Blog</a>: &#8220;The first noticeable item is how quickly OpenOffice 3.0 beta loads, even when compared with Microsoft Office 2008. In less than five seconds you are at the welcome screen ready to create your next masterpiece.&#8221;</p> -<p><a href="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/more_openoffice_org_3_0">Review Two</a>: From a <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.mac.apps/msg/027162e3a20b6810">Usenet posting you can read through Google Group</a>s: &#8220;It is more that three times as fast as NeoOffice and more than twice as fast than both MSOffice 2004 and 2008! - And until now i haven&#8217;t had a single &#8216;unexpected quit&#8217; with the last two builds of OOo3.0. - Also the fonts handling is quite a lot better than in NeoOffice and MSO2004/2008.&#8221;</p> -<p><a href="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/cool_openoffice_org_3_0">Review Three</a>: Reviewed by a reader on Macintouch.com: &#8220;I&#8217;m very impressed with the first public release beta of OO for OS X. It is both faster and more stable than the Office 08 demo I tried out. Since I&#8217;m not working in a corporate setting and don&#8217;t need absolute compatibility with Microsoft, I see no reason to purchase Office 2008 for an Intel native office suite. The presentation module isn&#8217;t near as slick as Keynote but the word processing and spreadsheets are more capable than Pages and Numbers. If you need that extra functionality then give OO a try.&#8221;</p></description> - <pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 14:06:09 +0000</pubDate> -</item> -<item> - <title>John McCreesh: The deadly embrace</title> - <guid>http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=507</guid> - <link>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/05/21/the-deadly-embrace/</link> - <description><p>News sources are starting to <a href="http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/05/21/technology/msft.php">leak the news</a> 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 - the spreadsheets, word processing documents, presentations etc that are churned out in their billions every day.</p> -<p>Traditionally, office software users put a price on their assets by counting up the number of MS-Office licences they had bought. Then people began to realise their real investment - their intellectual property - was in the documents they had created with the software. But the only way they could access their intellectual property was by buying software licences from a monopoly vendor - Microsoft. This didn&#8217;t feel right?</p> -<p>In response to this, the industry standards body OASIS started to draft an open standard for office documents that any software developer could use. Despite being a member of OASIS, Microsoft ignored this activity, even when the resulting Open Document Format (ODF) was adopted by ISO - the highest level of standards.</p> -<p>However, market pressures - especially from public administrations - continued to demand the standard. Microsoft responded in predictable fashion by trying to create its own rival standard, OOXML, and <a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2007/09/01/international-standards-on-trial/">used its considerable influence</a> to get this adopted by ISO. This commercial pressure to adopt a hasty and ill-conceived private standard has nearly broken the international standards process.</p> -<p>However, the pressure for ODF has continued to grow. There was a certain inevitability that Microsoft would be forced to bow to market pressures and announce its acceptance of ODF. However, Microsoft&#8217;s traditional approach to standards has been characterised as <a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2006/07/06/embrace-extend-and-extinguish/">Embrace, Extend, Extinguish</a> - i.e. attempt to claim ownership and take control of a standard through abuse of its near monopoly position.</p> -<p>Proponents of ODF need to defend against this by setting up independent testing for software conformance with the standard. The testing needs to be accessible not just to the Suns and IBMs of this world - but also the KOffices.</p> -<p>While proponents of ODF are <a href="http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20080521092930864">celebrating that a victory has been won</a>, it is more likely that the real battle is only just beginning.</p></description> - <pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 22:12:11 +0000</pubDate> -</item> </channel> </rss> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
![http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/w/images/thumb/9/90/PresenterScreenMain.jpg/300px-PresenterScreenMain.jpg"](http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/w/images/thumb/9/90/PresenterScreenMain.jpg/300px-PresenterScreenMain.jpg"){kind=link}