OpenOffice’s presentation view
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| Currently OpenOffice’s presentation program Impress lacks a presentation view
| with notes and so on for a second monitor during presentations. But the
| feature is in active development, and first results are visible.
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http://liquidat.wordpress.com/2007/11/22/openoffices-presentation-view/
Getting the (Share)Point About Document Formats
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| In companies running the Microsoft enterprise stack, those "sticky business
| processes" are defined and stored in a program that has a surprisingly low
| profile, but which may well turn out to be the biggest emerging threat to
| open source: Sharepoint. One perceptive observer, Alfresco's Matt Asay, had
| already spotted that threat 18 months ago, and is just as worried today:
|
| The more content you put in - whatever the individual file formats - the
| harder it is to get it out, because you're locking it into both a closed
| repository *and* a closed Microsoft ecosystem. Even if you manage to get
| your content out of Sharepoint it's still set to work on SQL Server with
| IIS/ActiveDirectory, etc. Closed. Closed. Closed.
|
| Even worse, this same lock-in applies to any ODF documents the user might
| have. As Asay explains:
|
| Let's assume you store data in ODF in a Sharepoint repository. It doesn't
| matter that ODF is an open format. The repository holding it is proprietary,
| and that proprietary lock-in is doubled by the fact that the enterprise will
| build (proprietary, non-standard) workflows to manage that content which
| keeps content a prisoner to Microsoft.
|
| In other words, the lock-in occurs not at the document level - the one the
| ODF community is most focused on - but at the level of the workflow.
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http://lwn.net/Articles/258232/
Related:
Mainsoft solves SharePoint trap
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| Mainsoft has solved the problem of SharePoint exclusivity, enabling secure
| data transfers between a SharePoint store and an IBM Websphere portal.
|
| [...]
|
| It won’t be cheap, but it’s going to get easier, for enterprises to escape
| the SharePoint trap.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1701
Could SharePoint Be Microsoft’s New Mode of Lock-In?
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| This could be a tough one for IT leaders. Business users are comfortable with
| Microsoft. They know how to use the Office interface, and apparently like it
| to the point users will create their own mini-BI tools from Excel and opt out
| of the corporate system. But, if Asay’s right, vendor lock-in could cause
| unforeseen problems or major costs down the road.
|
| After reading Asay’s column and the interview with Nicholls, at least you’ll
| know which questions to ask before investing in either SharePoint or an
| alternative solution.
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http://www.itbusinessedge.com/blogs/mia/?p=198
Sharepoint and Firefox: no rich editor for you
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| I am "forced" to use Sharepoint at work, but at least I'd like
| to use my Linux machine to write wiki pages. These guys at MS
| definitely don't know what they're doing...
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http://www.timheuer.com/blog/archive/2006/12/06/13939.aspx
ECIS Accuses Microsoft of Plotting HTML Hijack
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| An industry coalition that has represented competitors of Microsoft
| in European markets before the European Commission stepped up its
| public relations offensive this morning, this time accusing
| Microsoft of scheming to upset HTML's place in the fabric of
| the Internet with XAML, an XML-based layout lexicon forn
| etwork applications.
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http://www.betanews.com/article/ECIS_Accuses_Microsoft_of_Plotting_HTML_Hijack/1169824569
Competition for Microsoft & Co.: Mindquarry Forms Up With an Open Source Team
Software
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| Launch for a user friendly and easy to use teamwork software: since
| Feb. 28th 2007, Mindquarry offers the first Open Source alternative
| to Microsoft's Sharepoint Server or IBM's Lotus Connections.
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http://www.pr-inside.com/competition-for-microsoft-amp-co-r58135.htm
OpenOffice extension rivals SharePoint
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| The O3OSpaces server is a J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition) application,
| built on top of Apache Tomcat and the PostgreSQL database server. The
| web client uses AJAX, while the Assistant client program is a Java Web
| Start application.
|
| Besides StarOffice and OpenOffice.org, companies can use O3Spaces with
| Microsoft Office documents. "While O3Spaces is developed for use with
| OpenOffice.org/StarOffice, it can handle Microsoft Office documents
| equally well," stated O3Spaces B.V. CEO Rob Mentink. "This is crucial
| for companies and users that work in mixed environments."
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http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS3513176830.html
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