User: jpmcc Date: 2008-06-11 11:59:52+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 Wed Jun 11 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=1.554&r2=1.555 Delta lines: +50 -54 --------------------- --- atom.xml 2008-06-11 05:59:49+0000 1.554 +++ atom.xml 2008-06-11 11:59:49+0000 1.555 @@ -5,9 +5,53 @@ <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>2008-06-11T06:00:19+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-06-11T12:00:21+00:00</updated> <generator uri="http://www.planetplanet.org/";>Planet/2.0 +http://www.planetplanet.org</generator> + <entry xml:lang="en-us"> + <title type="html">Editing PDF files with OpenOffice.org</title> + <link href="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/editing_pdf_files_with_openoffice"/> + <id>http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/editing_pdf_files_with_openoffice</id> + <updated>2008-06-11T11:07:38+00:00</updated> + <content type="html">With the new <a href="http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/pdfimport">Sun PDF Import Extension</a> people can now edit PDF files. For example it's very easy to change a typo, date, name, phone number, diagram, etc. In addition, the Sun PDF Import Extension can be used to reuse content from old presentations. +<br /><br /> +Once the extension is installed, the PDF export feature shows a new option at the bottom as well. With the Sun PDF Import Extension, OpenOffice.org allows creating so-called "hybrid files". These are PDF files that also include the ODF content, i.e. the original source document. As a consequence, everybody can view these hybrid files with a simple PDF viewer. However, OpenOffice.org users can also edit these PDF files without any information loss, since OpenOffice.org will simple recognize and open the ODF content instead of trying to import the PDF information. Please keep in mind that this new extension requires OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta! It does not work with OpenOffice.org 2.x! +<br /><br /> +Since both OpenOffice.org 3.0 and the Sun PDF Import Extension are currently in a beta state, I'm curious to hear what your experiences with both tools are and how you're planning to use the PDF import feature including the hybrid file format (PDF including ODF).</content> + <author> + <name>Erwin Tenhumberg</name> + <uri>http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/</uri> + </author> + <source> + <title type="html">Erwin's StarOffice Tango</title> + <subtitle type="html">Erwin Tenhumberg's Insights into Open Source and Dancing<br />... or why Open Competition matters</subtitle> + <link rel="self" href="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/feed/entries/rss"/> + <id>http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/feed/entries/rss</id> + <updated>2008-06-11T12:00:20+00:00</updated> + <rights type="html">Copyright 2008</rights> + </source> + </entry> + + <entry xml:lang="en-us"> + <title type="html">OpenOffice.org Support Incidents for 9.99â¬</title> + <link href="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/openoffice_org_support_incidents_for"/> + <id>http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/openoffice_org_support_incidents_for</id> + <updated>2008-06-11T11:00:21+00:00</updated> + <content type="html">In case people get stuck with an OpenOffice.org problem and don't find the right answer in <a href="http://user.services.openoffice.org/">the OpenOffice.org Community Forum</a>, they might take advantage of the special promo for <a href="http://www.support-central.org/openoffice/index.jsp">professsional OpenOffice.org support</a>. Until mid September support incidents can be purchased for just 9.99â¬.</content> + <author> + <name>Erwin Tenhumberg</name> + <uri>http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/</uri> + </author> + <source> + <title type="html">Erwin's StarOffice Tango</title> + <subtitle type="html">Erwin Tenhumberg's Insights into Open Source and Dancing<br />... or why Open Competition matters</subtitle> + <link rel="self" href="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/feed/entries/rss"/> + <id>http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/feed/entries/rss</id> + <updated>2008-06-11T12:00:20+00:00</updated> + <rights type="html">Copyright 2008</rights> + </source> + </entry> + <entry xml:lang="en"> <title type="html">Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards</title> <link href="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/06/10/encourage-uk-plc-to-use-open-standards/"/> @@ -54,7 +98,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">Erwin Tenhumberg's Insights into Open Source and Dancing<br />... or why Open Competition matters</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/feed/entries/rss"/> <id>http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/feed/entries/rss</id> - <updated>2008-06-10T18:00:21+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-06-11T12:00:20+00:00</updated> <rights type="html">Copyright 2008</rights> </source> </entry> @@ -168,7 +212,7 @@ <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>2008-06-11T06:00:16+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-06-11T12:00:16+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -238,7 +282,7 @@ <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>2008-06-11T06:00:16+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-06-11T12:00:16+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -363,7 +407,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">Erwin Tenhumberg's Insights into Open Source and Dancing<br />... or why Open Competition matters</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/feed/entries/rss"/> <id>http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/feed/entries/rss</id> - <updated>2008-06-10T18:00:21+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-06-11T12:00:20+00:00</updated> <rights type="html">Copyright 2008</rights> </source> </entry> @@ -412,57 +456,9 @@ <subtitle type="html">Erwin Tenhumberg's Insights into Open Source and Dancing<br />... or why Open Competition matters</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/feed/entries/rss"/> <id>http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/feed/entries/rss</id> - <updated>2008-06-10T18:00:21+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-06-11T12:00:20+00:00</updated> <rights type="html">Copyright 2008</rights> </source> </entry> - <entry xml:lang="en"> - <title type="html">OpenOffice Migration of the Week: Aizuwakamatsu City, Japan</title> - <link href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/812"/> - <id>http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=812</id> - <updated>2008-06-02T13:05:21+00:00</updated> - <content type="html"><p>Kazunari Hirano mentions this week&#8217;s OpenOffice Migration of the Week: the <a href="http://openoffice.exblog.jp/7168127/">Aizuwakamatsu City Government in Fukushima Prefecture in Japan</a>, which is moving 850 computers from Microsoft Office to OpenOffice.org.</p> -<p>The city expects direct savings of 15 million yen over the next five years, and anticipates the benefits will spill over into the private sector, as citizens will also be able to adopt open source instead of expensive applications at home:</p> -<p>&#8220;The Mayor said that they can not only cut the cost but also accommodate the long-term preservation of their documents: &#8220;We often met problems with the latest office software to open and read our documents created in the past. But now we can use the international standard file format, ODF, so that we will be able to use and preserve our documents over many years.&#8221;</p> -<p>&#8220;It happened that our citizens had to buy the office software when they received documents from the city government.&#8221;</p> -<p>&#8220;ODF, which can be used from the free software, OpenOffice.org, will help reduce the burden on our citizens,&#8221; he said.</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>2008-06-10T18:00:16+00:00</updated> - </source> - </entry> - - <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 <a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/temp.pdf">article on open source</a> 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;m waiting for comments to come in, 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>2008-06-06T18:00:15+00:00</updated> - </source> - </entry> - </feed> File [changed]: index.html Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/index.html?r1=1.554&r2=1.555 Delta lines: +34 -41 --------------------- --- index.html 2008-06-11 05:59:49+0000 1.554 +++ index.html 2008-06-11 11:59:49+0000 1.555 @@ -34,8 +34,41 @@ <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 11, 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 11, 2008 12:00 PM GMT</em></p> +<h2>June 11, 2008</h2> +<h3> +<a href="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/"; title="Erwin's StarOffice Tango"> +Erwin Tenhumberg</a> : +<a href="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/editing_pdf_files_with_openoffice";> +Editing PDF files with OpenOffice.org</a> +</h3> +<p> +With the new <a href="http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/pdfimport";>Sun PDF Import Extension</a> people can now edit PDF files. For example it's very easy to change a typo, date, name, phone number, diagram, etc. In addition, the Sun PDF Import Extension can be used to reuse content from old presentations. +<br /><br /> +Once the extension is installed, the PDF export feature shows a new option at the bottom as well. With the Sun PDF Import Extension, OpenOffice.org allows creating so-called "hybrid files". These are PDF files that also include the ODF content, i.e. the original source document. As a consequence, everybody can view these hybrid files with a simple PDF viewer. However, OpenOffice.org users can also edit these PDF files without any information loss, since OpenOffice.org will simple recognize and open the ODF content instead of trying to import the PDF information. Please keep in mind that this new extension requires OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta! It does not work with OpenOffice.org 2.x! +<br /><br /> +Since both OpenOffice.org 3.0 and the Sun PDF Import Extension are currently in a beta state, I'm curious to hear what your experiences with both tools are and how you're planning to use the PDF import feature including the hybrid file format (PDF including ODF).</p> +<p> +<em><a href="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/editing_pdf_files_with_openoffice";>by dancer at June 11, 2008 11:07 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/openoffice_org_support_incidents_for";> +OpenOffice.org Support Incidents for 9.99â¬</a> +</h3> +<p> +In case people get stuck with an OpenOffice.org problem and don't find the right answer in <a href="http://user.services.openoffice.org/";>the OpenOffice.org Community Forum</a>, they might take advantage of the special promo for <a href="http://www.support-central.org/openoffice/index.jsp";>professsional OpenOffice.org support</a>. Until mid September support incidents can be purchased for just 9.99â¬.</p> +<p> +<em><a href="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/openoffice_org_support_incidents_for";>by dancer at June 11, 2008 11:00 AM GMT</a></em> +</p> +<br /> +<hr /> +<br /> <h2>June 10, 2008</h2> <h3> <a href="http://www.theopensourcerer.com"; title="The Open Sourcerer » OpenOffice.org"> @@ -361,46 +394,6 @@ <br /> <hr /> <br /> -<h2>June 02, 2008</h2> -<h3> -<a href="http://www.solidoffice.com"; title="SolidOffice » OpenOffice.org"> -Benjamin Horst</a> : -<a href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/812";> -OpenOffice Migration of the Week: Aizuwakamatsu City, Japan</a> -</h3> -<p> -<p>Kazunari Hirano mentions this week’s OpenOffice Migration of the Week: the <a href="http://openoffice.exblog.jp/7168127/";>Aizuwakamatsu City Government in Fukushima Prefecture in Japan</a>, which is moving 850 computers from Microsoft Office to OpenOffice.org.</p> -<p>The city expects direct savings of 15 million yen over the next five years, and anticipates the benefits will spill over into the private sector, as citizens will also be able to adopt open source instead of expensive applications at home:</p> -<p>“The Mayor said that they can not only cut the cost but also accommodate the long-term preservation of their documents: “We often met problems with the latest office software to open and read our documents created in the past. But now we can use the international standard file format, ODF, so that we will be able to use and preserve our documents over many years.”</p> -<p>“It happened that our citizens had to buy the office software when they received documents from the city government.”</p> -<p>“ODF, which can be used from the free software, OpenOffice.org, will help reduce the burden on our citizens,” he said.</p></p> -<p> -<em><a href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/812";>by Benjamin Horst at June 02, 2008 01:05 PM GMT</a></em> -</p> -<br /> -<hr /> -<br /> -<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 <a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/temp.pdf";>article on open source</a> 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’m waiting for comments to come in, 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 /> <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=1.554&r2=1.555 Delta lines: +1 -1 ------------------- --- opml.xml 2008-06-11 05:59:50+0000 1.554 +++ opml.xml 2008-06-11 11:59:49+0000 1.555 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ <opml version="1.1"> <head> <title>Marketing Planet</title> - <dateModified>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 06:00:19 +0000</dateModified> + <dateModified>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:00:21 +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=1.302&r2=1.303 Delta lines: +18 -24 --------------------- --- rss10.xml 2008-06-10 23:59:50+0000 1.302 +++ rss10.xml 2008-06-11 11:59:49+0000 1.303 @@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ <items> <rdf:Seq> + <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/editing_pdf_files_with_openoffice"; /> + <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/openoffice_org_support_incidents_for"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/?p=269"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/who_speaks_slovak_and_can"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-4193864903664578342" /> @@ -31,12 +33,26 @@ <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/polish_walmart_selling_laptops_with"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=511"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/french_hospital_migrates_to_openoffice"; /> - <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=812"; /> - <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=509"; /> </rdf:Seq> </items> </channel> +<item rdf:about="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/editing_pdf_files_with_openoffice";> + <title>Erwin Tenhumberg: Editing PDF files with OpenOffice.org</title> + <link>http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/editing_pdf_files_with_openoffice</link> + <content:encoded>With the new <a href="http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/pdfimport">Sun PDF Import Extension</a> people can now edit PDF files. 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It does not work with OpenOffice.org 2.x! +<br /><br /> +Since both OpenOffice.org 3.0 and the Sun PDF Import Extension are currently in a beta state, I'm curious to hear what your experiences with both tools are and how you're planning to use the PDF import feature including the hybrid file format (PDF including ODF).</content:encoded> + <dc:date>2008-06-11T11:07:38+00:00</dc:date> +</item> +<item rdf:about="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/openoffice_org_support_incidents_for";> + <title>Erwin Tenhumberg: OpenOffice.org Support Incidents for 9.99â¬</title> + <link>http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/openoffice_org_support_incidents_for</link> + <content:encoded>In case people get stuck with an OpenOffice.org problem and don't find the right answer in <a href="http://user.services.openoffice.org/">the OpenOffice.org Community Forum</a>, they might take advantage of the special promo for <a href="http://www.support-central.org/openoffice/index.jsp">professsional OpenOffice.org support</a>. Until mid September support incidents can be purchased for just 9.99â¬.</content:encoded> + <dc:date>2008-06-11T11:00:21+00:00</dc:date> +</item> <item rdf:about="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/?p=269";> <title>Alan Lord: Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards</title> <link>http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/06/10/encourage-uk-plc-to-use-open-standards/</link> @@ -219,27 +235,5 @@ <content:encoded>According to <a href="http://www.reseaux-telecoms.net/actualites/lire-le-centre-hospitalier-de-thiers-migre-vers-la-bureautique-openoffice-en-etant-accompagne-18257.html">this French article</a>, the French hospital of Thiers is migrating its 150 desktops to OpenOffice.org in order to spend money on training instead of licenses.</content:encoded> <dc:date>2008-06-03T11:14:40+00:00</dc:date> </item> -<item rdf:about="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=812";> - <title>Benjamin Horst: OpenOffice Migration of the Week: Aizuwakamatsu City, Japan</title> - <link>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/812</link> - <content:encoded><p>Kazunari Hirano mentions this week&#8217;s OpenOffice Migration of the Week: the <a href="http://openoffice.exblog.jp/7168127/">Aizuwakamatsu City Government in Fukushima Prefecture in Japan</a>, which is moving 850 computers from Microsoft Office to OpenOffice.org.</p> -<p>The city expects direct savings of 15 million yen over the next five years, and anticipates the benefits will spill over into the private sector, as citizens will also be able to adopt open source instead of expensive applications at home:</p> -<p>&#8220;The Mayor said that they can not only cut the cost but also accommodate the long-term preservation of their documents: &#8220;We often met problems with the latest office software to open and read our documents created in the past. But now we can use the international standard file format, ODF, so that we will be able to use and preserve our documents over many years.&#8221;</p> -<p>&#8220;It happened that our citizens had to buy the office software when they received documents from the city government.&#8221;</p> -<p>&#8220;ODF, which can be used from the free software, OpenOffice.org, will help reduce the burden on our citizens,&#8221; he said.</p></content:encoded> - <dc:date>2008-06-02T13:05:21+00:00</dc:date> -</item> -<item rdf:about="http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=509";> - <title>John McCreesh: Open Source and the Enterprise</title> - <link>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/05/31/open-source-and-the-enterprise/</link> - <content:encoded><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 <a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/temp.pdf">article on open source</a> 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;m waiting for comments to come in, 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> </rdf:RDF> File [changed]: rss20.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/rss20.xml?r1=1.302&r2=1.303 Delta lines: +18 -24 --------------------- --- rss20.xml 2008-06-10 23:59:50+0000 1.302 +++ rss20.xml 2008-06-11 11:59:49+0000 1.303 @@ -8,6 +8,24 @@ <description>Marketing Planet - http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/</description> <item> + <title>Erwin Tenhumberg: Editing PDF files with OpenOffice.org</title> + <guid>http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/editing_pdf_files_with_openoffice</guid> + <link>http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/editing_pdf_files_with_openoffice</link> + <description>With the new <a href="http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/pdfimport">Sun PDF Import Extension</a> people can now edit PDF files. For example it's very easy to change a typo, date, name, phone number, diagram, etc. In addition, the Sun PDF Import Extension can be used to reuse content from old presentations. +<br /><br /> +Once the extension is installed, the PDF export feature shows a new option at the bottom as well. With the Sun PDF Import Extension, OpenOffice.org allows creating so-called "hybrid files". These are PDF files that also include the ODF content, i.e. the original source document. As a consequence, everybody can view these hybrid files with a simple PDF viewer. However, OpenOffice.org users can also edit these PDF files without any information loss, since OpenOffice.org will simple recognize and open the ODF content instead of trying to import the PDF information. Please keep in mind that this new extension requires OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta! It does not work with OpenOffice.org 2.x! +<br /><br /> +Since both OpenOffice.org 3.0 and the Sun PDF Import Extension are currently in a beta state, I'm curious to hear what your experiences with both tools are and how you're planning to use the PDF import feature including the hybrid file format (PDF including ODF).</description> + <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:07:38 +0000</pubDate> +</item> +<item> + <title>Erwin Tenhumberg: OpenOffice.org Support Incidents for 9.99â¬</title> + <guid>http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/openoffice_org_support_incidents_for</guid> + <link>http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/openoffice_org_support_incidents_for</link> + <description>In case people get stuck with an OpenOffice.org problem and don't find the right answer in <a href="http://user.services.openoffice.org/">the OpenOffice.org Community Forum</a>, they might take advantage of the special promo for <a href="http://www.support-central.org/openoffice/index.jsp">professsional OpenOffice.org support</a>. Until mid September support incidents can be purchased for just 9.99â¬.</description> + <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:00:21 +0000</pubDate> +</item> +<item> <title>Alan Lord: Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards</title> <guid>http://www.theopensourcerer.com/?p=269</guid> <link>http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/06/10/encourage-uk-plc-to-use-open-standards/</link> @@ -205,30 +223,6 @@ <description>According to <a href="http://www.reseaux-telecoms.net/actualites/lire-le-centre-hospitalier-de-thiers-migre-vers-la-bureautique-openoffice-en-etant-accompagne-18257.html">this French article</a>, the French hospital of Thiers is migrating its 150 desktops to OpenOffice.org in order to spend money on training instead of licenses.</description> <pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 11:14:40 +0000</pubDate> </item> -<item> - <title>Benjamin Horst: OpenOffice Migration of the Week: Aizuwakamatsu City, Japan</title> - <guid>http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=812</guid> - <link>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/812</link> - <description><p>Kazunari Hirano mentions this week&#8217;s OpenOffice Migration of the Week: the <a href="http://openoffice.exblog.jp/7168127/">Aizuwakamatsu City Government in Fukushima Prefecture in Japan</a>, which is moving 850 computers from Microsoft Office to OpenOffice.org.</p> -<p>The city expects direct savings of 15 million yen over the next five years, and anticipates the benefits will spill over into the private sector, as citizens will also be able to adopt open source instead of expensive applications at home:</p> -<p>&#8220;The Mayor said that they can not only cut the cost but also accommodate the long-term preservation of their documents: &#8220;We often met problems with the latest office software to open and read our documents created in the past. But now we can use the international standard file format, ODF, so that we will be able to use and preserve our documents over many years.&#8221;</p> -<p>&#8220;It happened that our citizens had to buy the office software when they received documents from the city government.&#8221;</p> -<p>&#8220;ODF, which can be used from the free software, OpenOffice.org, will help reduce the burden on our citizens,&#8221; he said.</p></description> - <pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 13:05:21 +0000</pubDate> -</item> -<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 <a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/temp.pdf">article on open source</a> 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;m waiting for comments to come in, 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> </channel> </rss> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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