Louis Suarez-Potts uploaded the speech he gave on the OOo 3 Launch Party both in English and in French. Mine was given in French for obvious reasons. I thought some of my francophone readers would be interested in it as well. Enjoy! Bonsoir, et merci à tous d’être là. …
Now it’s been days, and more than a week I haven’t blogged. The reason is simple: I was swamped. But I ended up exhausted and happy. We’ve been releasing the 3.0. Yes, we did it, and we also threw a major party at the headquarters of the Region Île de …
More information and registration link here. To answer to the question many around are asking: No, OpenOffice.org 3.0 has not been released yet. Target date is now 13th or 14th of October, and there will be a RC 4 coming in on Monday. In the meantime, I hope to see …
That’s official, and an interesting, sad, and probably ridiculous page of the I.T. History is about to be turned: OOXML has been published in its final version. Has it really? Well, it turns out that OOXML does have lots of tricks up its sleeve. It seems that the specification document …
Yesterday I was honored to receive the “Lutèce d’Or” trophy on behalf of the OpenOffice.org Project from the hands of Mr Besson, Minister of the Prospective and Digital Technologies of the French Republic. There was a standing ovation, but this one was not so much dedicated to my humble person …
Right since the beginning of September we are being litteraly submerged by the number of events promoting OpenOffice.org around the world. Let me summarize those for you; I hope you will see that we have something for everyone these days! The first even to come is the NLC Meeting in …
Good question indeed. No, I am not referring to my yearly bloodtests; I am referring to this new advertising: Okay, that is pretty lame for a commercial involving Jerry Seinfeldt and Bill Gates. In fact, the message it sends is pretty bad for Microsoft in some sense. It implictly acknowledges …
Now this is becoming interesting, or perhaps just very unfortunate: The countries appealing against the ISO procedure on the OOXML standardization have signed and sent a letter of protest to the ISO. “ CONSEGI 2008 DECLARATION We, the undersigned representatives of state IT organisations from Brazil, South Africa, Venezuela, Ecuador, …
That had to happen, and it had to be announced. Novell and Microsoft have basically extended their collaboration, although the point of such a partnership seems unclear to both of them if you read the fine print. On the one hand, Microsoft bought yet another share of Novell, this time …