Sadly it's deliberate, they're trying to Brand the Marketplace and slightly separate it out from the rest of the 'entertainment' zone. Since it's the place you spend the money I can see their point.
There's a BASIC style Macro language included but with the open API (stuff works transparently on OOo and SO) you can program in Java, C++, Python and as they, more.
The new open scripting architechture being developed at OpenOffice.org will rock your office automation socks.
You do know that the latest version of EndNote (7) has just announced support for OpenOffice.org and StarOffice don't you? Admitedly it isn't (yet) as good as their support for MS Office but it's getting there.
See you again in a few days when the Final Beta of OOo X11 for OS X is released. The version you see then will be quite different. For instance all printers in Print Center will work automatically under 10.2.
This won't be an Alpha it'll be a final beta *for X11* the Quartz version is progressing.
http://installation.openoffice.org/
Tells you everything. Ask on the mailing lists for more clarification. Lee's mainly a Graphics guy through he did some cool hacking for dictinstall.
It's certainly legal for colleges to sell CD's of OpenOffice.org, SO I think is a little different since it's being provided for cost of media (I assume a massive pile of CDs). They couold probably pass that cost along through if they wanted to.
SuSE 8 was also without stickers. There is a conspiracy afoot. I smell complicity among the linux vendors, give us our stickers or give us back our BSOD!
It's not ready on OSX yet, a few more months. This is the 638c build that was released for Win/Lin/Solaris midway through 2001. To put it in perspective.
People, this is a barely stable developers build. It's not ready for the public yet. Eventually it will have an Aqua front end, but not yet because they've only just managed to hack this build together!
It's put out there for the Apple WWDC for people to take a look at and come along and give a hand. Please do not think that this is anywhere near the quality of OpenOffice.org 1.0 on Linux, Windows or Solaris. Yet.
Well the StarOffice you were using (5.2) wasn't open source software. It was available fro free but wasn't open source. So it's not a very good comparison really. Try OpenOffice.org 1.0, SOT Office or the upcoming StarOffice 6. You might be pleasently surprised.
(they'll still need at least 64mb RAM, remember you're trying to read a *word* document here. That's somebody else's spec and therefore defines somedoy else's overhead when you want to read it. Reading and writing word docs is just *hard* to do.)
SOT Office is merely a slightly older version of OpenOffice.org. I'm sure that the source updates will be included in the Bundles Of Helpful Fixes soon.
Get SOT if you want commercial support otherwise OOo will always be more up to date.
Yes, I thought someone might notice this! It's not intentional though. OpenOffice.org were aiming for a release earlier in the week but it too klonger than expected to clear up some desktop integration bugs.
File loading takes a bit longer because it has to parse the XML format. There are so many advantages to having a cool, open, human readable (although zipped) file format though.
Thanks for the kind words, we need all sorts of people. If you can't devlop (and I can't) then come along and help in the marketing project.
Sadly I know you're wrong. All you have to do is do a diff on the source code available for SOT and 641c and you'll see that they've localised it a bit (with dictionaries etc.) and changed the names and graphics. That is it in the base install. Unless the BOUF packs add more exciting functionality (other than a possibly jump up to 641d) that's all you're getting.
well it builds with the GNU tools! Check out GnuPoc for more info on that.
The main good thing about the ericsson mp3 handsfree is that it supports a 64mb MultiMedia Card so you can saave on internal memory. Oh, and it's a handsfree too.
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Sadly it's deliberate, they're trying to Brand the Marketplace and slightly separate it out from the rest of the 'entertainment' zone. Since it's the place you spend the money I can see their point.
Which you can already watch, either on Sky Sports extra or by paying for the NASN channel.
There's a BASIC style Macro language included but with the open API (stuff works transparently on OOo and SO) you can program in Java, C++, Python and as they, more.
The new open scripting architechture being developed at OpenOffice.org will rock your office automation socks.
You do know that the latest version of EndNote (7) has just announced support for OpenOffice.org and StarOffice don't you? Admitedly it isn't (yet) as good as their support for MS Office but it's getting there.
See you again in a few days when the Final Beta of OOo X11 for OS X is released. The version you see then will be quite different. For instance all printers in Print Center will work automatically under 10.2.
This won't be an Alpha it'll be a final beta *for X11* the Quartz version is progressing.
http://installation.openoffice.org/ Tells you everything. Ask on the mailing lists for more clarification. Lee's mainly a Graphics guy through he did some cool hacking for dictinstall.
iDisk is WebDAV yes? So you can save your documents to it if you want. OpenOffice.org (and by extension StarOffice) include WebDAV support.
It's certainly legal for colleges to sell CD's of OpenOffice.org, SO I think is a little different since it's being provided for cost of media (I assume a massive pile of CDs). They couold probably pass that cost along through if they wanted to.
AFAIK (from the retail version) each copy of StarOffice 6 can be installed on 5 machines per user. That should cover home nicely.
SuSE 8 was also without stickers. There is a conspiracy afoot. I smell complicity among the linux vendors, give us our stickers or give us back our BSOD!
It's not ready on OSX yet, a few more months. This is the 638c build that was released for Win/Lin/Solaris midway through 2001. To put it in perspective.
People, this is a barely stable developers build. It's not ready for the public yet. Eventually it will have an Aqua front end, but not yet because they've only just managed to hack this build together!
It's put out there for the Apple WWDC for people to take a look at and come along and give a hand. Please do not think that this is anywhere near the quality of OpenOffice.org 1.0 on Linux, Windows or Solaris. Yet.
Well the StarOffice you were using (5.2) wasn't open source software. It was available fro free but wasn't open source. So it's not a very good comparison really. Try OpenOffice.org 1.0, SOT Office or the upcoming StarOffice 6. You might be pleasently surprised.
(they'll still need at least 64mb RAM, remember you're trying to read a *word* document here. That's somebody else's spec and therefore defines somedoy else's overhead when you want to read it. Reading and writing word docs is just *hard* to do.)
There is a users project led by the City Of Largo in Florida to develop WordPerfect filters. Check out the OOoDocs site for more info.
AFAIK almost all of the old stardivision devloers are still working in hamburg on the OpenOffice.org source project.
SOT Office is merely a slightly older version of OpenOffice.org. I'm sure that the source updates will be included in the Bundles Of Helpful Fixes soon.
Get SOT if you want commercial support otherwise OOo will always be more up to date.
Yes, I thought someone might notice this! It's not intentional though. OpenOffice.org were aiming for a release earlier in the week but it too klonger than expected to clear up some desktop integration bugs.
No, it's not. Nice idea though. As far as OpenOffice.org are concerned the more people using the open file formats and API's the better.
File loading takes a bit longer because it has to parse the XML format. There are so many advantages to having a cool, open, human readable (although zipped) file format though.
Thanks for the kind words, we need all sorts of people. If you can't devlop (and I can't) then come along and help in the marketing project.
There isn't yet an OSX port. They're working on porting it at the moment. If you can develop on OSX then please give them a hand. It will rock.
Note that there is a PPC Linux build available at the Yellow Dog Linux site.
Check out the 'What's New in 1.0' document. I'll link to it when OpenOffice.org itself comes back from the dead.
google directory of mirrors. theres defianatly some that work there.
Yes it can. Check out the timeline in the comment above. This happened last year. It uses it's own printing system AFAIK.
Sadly I know you're wrong. All you have to do is do a diff on the source code available for SOT and 641c and you'll see that they've localised it a bit (with dictionaries etc.) and changed the names and graphics. That is it in the base install. Unless the BOUF packs add more exciting functionality (other than a possibly jump up to 641d) that's all you're getting.
well it builds with the GNU tools! Check out GnuPoc for more info on that.
The main good thing about the ericsson mp3 handsfree is that it supports a 64mb MultiMedia Card so you can saave on internal memory. Oh, and it's a handsfree too.