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Log: Planet run at Mon Jun 9 13:00:13 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=1.546&r2=1.547 Delta lines: +32 -28 --------------------- --- atom.xml 2008-06-09 05:59:50+0000 1.546 +++ atom.xml 2008-06-09 12:00:00+0000 1.547 @@ -5,9 +5,32 @@ <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>2008-06-09T06:00:20+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-06-09T12:00:30+00:00</updated> <generator uri="http://www.planetplanet.org/";>Planet/2.0 +http://www.planetplanet.org</generator> + <entry xml:lang="en"> + <title type="html">IBM Lotus Symphony 1.0 Released</title> + <link href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/817"/> + <id>http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=817</id> + <updated>2008-06-09T11:13:02+00:00</updated> + <content type="html"><p><a href="http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony/home.jspa">IBM Lotus Symphony</a> is IBM&#8217;s office suite derived from OpenOffice.org and the Eclipse Rich Client Platform. The same tools are also available as a part of Lotus Notes 8.0+, but Symphony is the standalone version of the word processor, spreadsheet and presentation applications that use ODF as their native file format.</p> +<p>The first betas of Symphony were released in September 2007, and have been downloaded over one million times. With the release of version 1.0, IBM&#8217;s business strategy has also been revealed: the software is free, but support options are available for companies who&#8217;d like to pay.</p> +<p>LinuxWorld interprets this move as a direct challenge to Microsoft&#8217;s &#8216;heartland&#8217; in its article &#8220;<a href="http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2008/060508-ibm-releases-odf-based-office.html">IBM Releases ODF-Based Office Killer</a>.&#8221;</p> +<p><a href="http://www.ebizq.net/news/9689.html">Ebizq sees it as an indicator that ODF has reached maturity</a>, with its already widespread implementation in OpenOffice now augmented by an enterprise product from one of the world&#8217;s largest IT companies: &#8220;Open Document Format (ODF) comes of age today as IBM announces the commercial-grade, general availability of <a href="http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony">Lotus Symphony</a>, a suite of free, ODF-based software tools for creating and sharing documents, spreadsheets and presentations.&#8221;</p> +<p>IBM is also using Symphony as a core part of a new stack of Lotus software aimed at small businesses called <a href="http://www.ibm.com/lotus/products/foundations">IBM Lotus Foundations</a>, which looks very interesting itself.</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>2008-06-09T12:00:16+00:00</updated> + </source> + </entry> + <entry> <title type="html">New: OOo-Dev 3.0 Developer snapshot (build DEV300_m17) available</title> <link href="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/new_ooo_dev_3_08"/> @@ -31,7 +54,7 @@ <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> - 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<author> - <name>floeff</name> - <email>[EMAIL PROTECTED]</email> - <uri>http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/</uri> - </author> - <source> - <title type="html">OpenOffice.org Marketing Blog</title> - <link rel="self" href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"/> - <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632</id> - <updated>2008-06-07T00:00:20+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-06-09T12:00:18+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> File [changed]: index.html Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/index.html?r1=1.546&r2=1.547 Delta lines: +20 -16 --------------------- --- index.html 2008-06-09 05:59:50+0000 1.546 +++ index.html 2008-06-09 12:00:00+0000 1.547 @@ -34,8 +34,27 @@ <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 09, 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: June 09, 2008 12:00 PM GMT</em></p> +<h2>June 09, 2008</h2> +<h3> +<a href="http://www.solidoffice.com"; title="SolidOffice » OpenOffice.org"> +Benjamin Horst</a> : +<a href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/817";> +IBM Lotus Symphony 1.0 Released</a> +</h3> +<p> +<p><a href="http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony/home.jspa";>IBM Lotus Symphony</a> is IBM’s office suite derived from OpenOffice.org and the Eclipse Rich Client Platform. The same tools are also available as a part of Lotus Notes 8.0+, but Symphony is the standalone version of the word processor, spreadsheet and presentation applications that use ODF as their native file format.</p> +<p>The first betas of Symphony were released in September 2007, and have been downloaded over one million times. With the release of version 1.0, IBM’s business strategy has also been revealed: the software is free, but support options are available for companies who’d like to pay.</p> +<p>LinuxWorld interprets this move as a direct challenge to Microsoft’s ‘heartland’ in its article “<a href="http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2008/060508-ibm-releases-odf-based-office.html";>IBM Releases ODF-Based Office Killer</a>.”</p> +<p><a href="http://www.ebizq.net/news/9689.html";>Ebizq sees it as an indicator that ODF has reached maturity</a>, with its already widespread implementation in OpenOffice now augmented by an enterprise product from one of the world’s largest IT companies: “Open Document Format (ODF) comes of age today as IBM announces the commercial-grade, general availability of <a href="http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony";>Lotus Symphony</a>, a suite of free, ODF-based software tools for creating and sharing documents, spreadsheets and presentations.”</p> +<p>IBM is also using Symphony as a core part of a new stack of Lotus software aimed at small businesses called <a href="http://www.ibm.com/lotus/products/foundations";>IBM Lotus Foundations</a>, which looks very interesting itself.</p></p> +<p> +<em><a href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/817";>by Benjamin Horst at June 09, 2008 11:13 AM GMT</a></em> +</p> +<br /> +<hr /> +<br /> <h2>June 07, 2008</h2> <h3> <a href="" title="jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader"> @@ -405,21 +424,6 @@ <br /> <hr /> <br /> -<h2>May 25, 2008</h2> -<h3> -<a href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/"; title="OpenOffice.org Marketing Blog"> -OOo Marketeers</a> : -<a href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2008/05/it-reviews-has-given-us-recommended.html";> -IT Reviews has given us a 'Recommended' award</a> -</h3> -<p> -OpenOffice.org has been given a <a href="http://www.itreviews.co.uk/software/s607.htm";>'Recommended' award by IT Reviews</a>: "The maturity of OpenOffice is fast winning over many of those still deep-rooted in a Microsoft Office way of working, and while this latest release isn't likely to tip too many more over the edge, it's a further move forward in the quest to be accepted as the legitimate alternative that it already is."</p> -<p> -<em><a href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2008/05/it-reviews-has-given-us-recommended.html";>by floeff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) at May 25, 2008 01:13 PM BST</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=1.546&r2=1.547 Delta lines: +1 -1 ------------------- --- opml.xml 2008-06-09 05:59:51+0000 1.546 +++ opml.xml 2008-06-09 12:00:00+0000 1.547 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ <opml version="1.1"> <head> <title>Marketing Planet</title> - <dateModified>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 06:00:20 +0000</dateModified> + <dateModified>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 12:00:30 +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=1.298&r2=1.299 Delta lines: +11 -8 -------------------- --- rss10.xml 2008-06-08 23:59:50+0000 1.298 +++ rss10.xml 2008-06-09 12:00:00+0000 1.299 @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ <items> <rdf:Seq> + <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=817"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/9ebb2feffc640336" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-8520764581958256878" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=514"; /> @@ -32,11 +33,20 @@ <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/e9995d705e3c925b" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-5010600877902966368" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/313003409781a231" /> - <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-7246139765705244193" /> </rdf:Seq> </items> </channel> +<item rdf:about="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=817";> + <title>Benjamin Horst: IBM Lotus Symphony 1.0 Released</title> + <link>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/817</link> + <content:encoded><p><a href="http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony/home.jspa">IBM Lotus Symphony</a> is IBM&#8217;s office suite derived from OpenOffice.org and the Eclipse Rich Client Platform. The same tools are also available as a part of Lotus Notes 8.0+, but Symphony is the standalone version of the word processor, spreadsheet and presentation applications that use ODF as their native file format.</p> +<p>The first betas of Symphony were released in September 2007, and have been downloaded over one million times. With the release of version 1.0, IBM&#8217;s business strategy has also been revealed: the software is free, but support options are available for companies who&#8217;d like to pay.</p> +<p>LinuxWorld interprets this move as a direct challenge to Microsoft&#8217;s &#8216;heartland&#8217; in its article &#8220;<a href="http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2008/060508-ibm-releases-odf-based-office.html">IBM Releases ODF-Based Office Killer</a>.&#8221;</p> +<p><a href="http://www.ebizq.net/news/9689.html">Ebizq sees it as an indicator that ODF has reached maturity</a>, with its already widespread implementation in OpenOffice now augmented by an enterprise product from one of the world&#8217;s largest IT companies: &#8220;Open Document Format (ODF) comes of age today as IBM announces the commercial-grade, general availability of <a href="http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony">Lotus Symphony</a>, a suite of free, ODF-based software tools for creating and sharing documents, spreadsheets and presentations.&#8221;</p> +<p>IBM is also using Symphony as a core part of a new stack of Lotus software aimed at small businesses called <a href="http://www.ibm.com/lotus/products/foundations">IBM Lotus Foundations</a>, which looks very interesting itself.</p></content:encoded> + <dc:date>2008-06-09T11:13:02+00:00</dc:date> +</item> <item rdf:about="tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/9ebb2feffc640336"> <title>GullFOSS: New: OOo-Dev 3.0 Developer snapshot (build DEV300_m17) available</title> <link>http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/new_ooo_dev_3_08</link> @@ -252,12 +262,5 @@ <dc:date>2008-05-26T11:35:20+00:00</dc:date> <dc:creator>Thorsten Ziehm</dc:creator> </item> -<item rdf:about="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-7246139765705244193"> - <title>OOo Marketeers: IT Reviews has given us a 'Recommended' award</title> - <link>http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2008/05/it-reviews-has-given-us-recommended.html</link> - <content:encoded>OpenOffice.org has been given a <a href="http://www.itreviews.co.uk/software/s607.htm">'Recommended' award by IT Reviews</a>: "The maturity of OpenOffice is fast winning over many of those still deep-rooted in a Microsoft Office way of working, and while this latest release isn't likely to tip too many more over the edge, it's a further move forward in the quest to be accepted as the legitimate alternative that it already is."</content:encoded> - <dc:date>2008-05-25T13:13:45+00:00</dc:date> - <dc:creator>floeff</dc:creator> -</item> </rdf:RDF> File [changed]: rss20.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/rss20.xml?r1=1.298&r2=1.299 Delta lines: +11 -8 -------------------- --- rss20.xml 2008-06-08 23:59:50+0000 1.298 +++ rss20.xml 2008-06-09 12:00:01+0000 1.299 @@ -8,6 +8,17 @@ <description>Marketing Planet - http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/</description> <item> + <title>Benjamin Horst: IBM Lotus Symphony 1.0 Released</title> + <guid>http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=817</guid> + <link>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/817</link> + <description><p><a href="http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony/home.jspa">IBM Lotus Symphony</a> is IBM&#8217;s office suite derived from OpenOffice.org and the Eclipse Rich Client Platform. The same tools are also available as a part of Lotus Notes 8.0+, but Symphony is the standalone version of the word processor, spreadsheet and presentation applications that use ODF as their native file format.</p> +<p>The first betas of Symphony were released in September 2007, and have been downloaded over one million times. With the release of version 1.0, IBM&#8217;s business strategy has also been revealed: the software is free, but support options are available for companies who&#8217;d like to pay.</p> +<p>LinuxWorld interprets this move as a direct challenge to Microsoft&#8217;s &#8216;heartland&#8217; in its article &#8220;<a href="http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2008/060508-ibm-releases-odf-based-office.html">IBM Releases ODF-Based Office Killer</a>.&#8221;</p> +<p><a href="http://www.ebizq.net/news/9689.html">Ebizq sees it as an indicator that ODF has reached maturity</a>, with its already widespread implementation in OpenOffice now augmented by an enterprise product from one of the world&#8217;s largest IT companies: &#8220;Open Document Format (ODF) comes of age today as IBM announces the commercial-grade, general availability of <a href="http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony">Lotus Symphony</a>, a suite of free, ODF-based software tools for creating and sharing documents, spreadsheets and presentations.&#8221;</p> +<p>IBM is also using Symphony as a core part of a new stack of Lotus software aimed at small businesses called <a href="http://www.ibm.com/lotus/products/foundations">IBM Lotus Foundations</a>, which looks very interesting itself.</p></description> + <pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 11:13:02 +0000</pubDate> +</item> +<item> <title>GullFOSS: New: OOo-Dev 3.0 Developer snapshot (build DEV300_m17) available</title> <guid>tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/9ebb2feffc640336</guid> <link>http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/new_ooo_dev_3_08</link> @@ -237,14 +248,6 @@ <description><div><p lang="en-US">As you still know I am the manager of the Quality Assurance Team at <a href="http://www.sun.com/">Sun Microsystems</a> for <a href="http://www.sun.com/staroffice">StarOffice</a> and <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/">OpenOffice.org</a> and everyday I work and do my daily business with each developer milestone. I do the same with the ones of the OOo 3.0 code line. Why I do not have any objections? Why I am not afraid and why I am not a friend of writing 'please do not use the Beta for your daily work, you can destroy your documents'? Please read why I am so confident.</p><p lang="en-US">In the past years since OOo 2.0 Beta the development of OOo did a major step to increase the stability and quality of our product. Processes and guidelines were integrated to get a stable version every day. Some groups in the community say, these hinder the contribution to the project. I do understand this. But the great benefit for all of us is, that every contributor and each user of OOo can get stable releases every 3 months. And with the change to 'more frequent feature releases' every 6 months also new features are integrated in the new versions.</p><p lang="en-US">The number of users and interested people on OOo increased the past years dramatically. In some weeks more than 1 million downloads per week were registered. From these numbers the project was fare fare away when starting with OOo 2.0 Beta begin 2005. Beside the increased numbers of users of and contributors to OOo the number of incoming issues in <a href="http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/query.cgi">IssueTracker</a> decreased. In 2005 round about 1800 issues were reported each month. Last year the submission rate was at 1050 issues and in the past months before the announcement of <a href="http://download.openoffice.org/">OOo 2.4</a> and <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/3.0/announcementbeta.html">OOo 3.0 Beta</a> the numbers decreased to 950 issues per month. Now with the announcement of OOo 3.0 Beta the numbers increased a little bit. But in general the numbers are fare fare away from the numbers at OOo 2.0 Beta release.</p><div align="center"><img vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0" align="bottom" src="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/resource/incoming2x.jpg" /> <br /></div><p lang="en-US"> Since the release of OOo 3.0 Beta <a href="http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/buglist.cgi?Submit+query=Submit+query&issue_type=DEFECT&issue_type=ENHANCEMENT&issue_type=FEATURE&issue_type=PATCH&issue_status=UNCONFIRMED&issue_status=NEW&issue_status=STARTED&issue_status=REOPENED&issue_status=RESOLVED&issue_status=VERIFIED&issue_status=CLOSED&version=OOo+3.0+Beta&email1=&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&email2=&emailtype2=exact&emailreporter2=1&issueidtype=include&issue_id=&changedin=&votes=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=&chfieldvalue=&short_desc=&short_desc_type=allwords&long_desc=&long_desc_type=allwords&issue_file_loc=&issue_file_loc_type=fulltext&status_whiteboard=&status_whiteboard_type=fulltext&keywords=&keywords_type=anytokens&field0-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=noop&value0-0-0=&cmdtype=doit&order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time">some more than 300 issues</a> are reported on this version. But this does not increase the numbers for May in general. So I have to think the users switch to the Beta and report their issues on that version and do not report it on an older release. Currently less than 5 issues are identified as <a href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/OOo_3_Beta_feedback#bugs">show stopper issue for the Beta Refresh</a> end of June.</p><h3>What was done to get the higher quality since OOo 2.0?</h3><p lang="en-US">First of all the concentration on developing with Child Work Spaces (CWS) are very important. To bring in new features and changes only when they are tested in a separate build (the CWS). Only when it is finished the QA approval will be given and the CWS can be integrated into the master code line. This hinder to bring in unfinished features and perhaps broken functionality. Regressions are still there on the master code line. This couldn't be reduced to zero. But it could be minimized.</p><p lang="en-US">The second quality initiative was to concentrate on stability in OOo 2.0.3 and 2.0.4. With the Crash Reporter feature all most critical crashes were identified and fixed. This tooling is used for each release and all critical issues from the last releases are fixed in the next release. In 2.x time-frame nearly 400 issues reported over the crash reporter tooling by the user of OOo could be fixed. These 400 issues represent nearly 85% of all reported crashes. <br /></p><p lang="en-US">Other quality initiatives in the OOo 2.x time frame were 'Warning Free Code' and check the code with <a href="http://www.valgrind.org/">Valgrind</a>. This increased the general quality of the code. Memory leaks, programming errors, build errors etc. were identified and this represent the general stability of the product.</p><p lang="en-US">The most important point is, that OOo 3.0 based on the stable version of 2.4. More than 2.5 million downloads of that versions in the past 4 weeks shows a high credit in that version.</p><p lang="en-US">All these information â the number of incoming issues decrease, the incoming crash reports for newer versions decrease, the good processes for quality assurance on CWSs, the stable 2.x code line and ... â give me the confidence to do my daily business with every new build of OOo 3.0 (or sometimes with StarOffice).</p><p lang="en-US">I know that I have to use sometimes the latest version of OOo 2.x. This I do only when I have to create business critical documents and when I know the end users will not have an office which work with ODF 1.2 (like OOo 3.0). In some cases incompatibilities can occur with when features from 3.0 code-line are used, which aren't in 2.x. But you will get a warning in OOo 2.x, when you are opening a file with ODF 1.2.</p><p lang="en-US">When you are now more interested in using OOo 3.0 Beta, download it at <a href="http://download.openoffice.org/3.0beta/">http://download.openoffice.org/3.0beta/</a></p><p lang="en-US">If you are interested in general feedback on OOo 3.0 Beta, you can find it in OOo Wiki <a href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/OOo_3_Beta_feedback">http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/OOo_3_Beta_feedback</a><br />If you think a critical bug should be fixed until Beta Refresh or the Final version of OOo write it on that page and let discuss it on the <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">[EMAIL PROTECTED]</a> mailing list.<br /></p><p lang="en-US">I understand that users think that OOo 3.0 isn't a big step forward when they are always using the newest versions of OOo 2.x. The feature set increased like each other Update and some more bug fixes are integrated â that's all. But with opening a new code line and integrated some major changes in the structure of OOo it will be possible to bring in the changes which are voted often on OOo mailing lists and also on the Beta Feedback side.</p><p lang="en-US">I am confident and looking promising to the updates on OOo 3.x code line.</p><p lang="en-US"> </p></div></description> <pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 11:35:20 +0000</pubDate> </item> -<item> - <title>OOo Marketeers: IT Reviews has given us a 'Recommended' award</title> - <guid>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-7246139765705244193</guid> - <link>http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2008/05/it-reviews-has-given-us-recommended.html</link> - <description>OpenOffice.org has been given a <a href="http://www.itreviews.co.uk/software/s607.htm">'Recommended' award by IT Reviews</a>: "The maturity of OpenOffice is fast winning over many of those still deep-rooted in a Microsoft Office way of working, and while this latest release isn't likely to tip too many more over the edge, it's a further move forward in the quest to be accepted as the legitimate alternative that it already is."</description> - <pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2008 13:13:45 +0000</pubDate> - <author>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (floeff)</author> -</item> </channel> </rss> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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