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StarOffice Dropped From Google Pack 135

Posted by timothy on Monday November 10, 2008 @07:50AM from the stardom-is-temporary dept.

Barence writes "Sun's StarOffice suite has been mysteriously dropped from the Google Pack of free software. The office suite has been axed without any warning or explanation on the Google site. Is Google trying to drive more people towards its own online suite of office applications? Or has it been stung into action by Steve Ballmer's recent comment that Microsoft Office faces stronger competition from StarOffice than it does Google Docs and Spreadsheet?"

Comment Re:OOXML. (Score 1) 615

by Adnans on Tuesday September 11, 2007 @11:03AM (#20553889) Attached to: de lcaza calls OOXML a "Superb Standard"

No suprises here, I mean, you were the guy who decided CORBA was a good thing for GNOME right? :)

-adnans

Comment Re:Hello World (Newer Version) (Score 1) 658

by p3t0r on Sunday July 15, 2007 @02:49AM (#19865103) Attached to: Any "Pretty" Code Out There?

You're missing some really important keywords like 'implements', 'for', 'if', 'else', 'final', 'abstract', 'interface', 'import', 'package'. To bad, they could make your example better!

Red Hat Not Seeing Microsoft, Ubuntu as Threats 241

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday June 14, 2006 @01:32AM from the keeping-a-stiff-upper-lip dept.

Ian Price writes "Red Hat is shrugging off Microsoft's entry into the cluster computing space after Microsoft announced that it has completed the code for its Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 targeting high-performance computing. From the article: 'Scott Crenshaw, general manager of enterprise Linux platform at Red Hat, dismissed Microsoft's entry into cluster computing. "They're playing catch-up," he said. "Linux is often associated with high-performance computing, but Windows has never achieved that on a large scale."' Crenshaw also commented with respect to Ubuntu: 'Their user base is still small, so we're not seeing the impact of it [Ubuntu] so far.'"

Convicted Hacker Adrian Lamo Refuses to Give Blood 673

Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday May 13, 2006 @11:19AM from the not-so-juicy-cases dept.

CaliforniaCCW writes "Hopefully everyone here remembers the case of Adrian Lamo, a so-called 'gray hat' hacker who plead guilty to one count of computer crimes against Microsoft, Nexis-Lexis and the New York Times in 2004. He got a felony conviction, six months detention in his parents' home, and two years of probation. Today, as a condition of his probation, he must provide a sample of his DNA in the form of a blood sample, something which he has refused to do. Should convicted felons on probation have privacy rights over their DNA? Or is a blood sample like a fingerprint, something that everyone should provide to their government?"

Apple Pushes to Unmask Product Leaker 255

Posted by CowboyNeal on Friday April 21, 2006 @05:38AM from the say-what-you-must dept.

Zack Wells writes "Should online journalists receive the same rights as traditional reporters? Apple claims they should not. Its lawyers say in court documents that Web scribes are not 'legitimate members of the press' when they reveal details about forthcoming products that the company would prefer to keep confidential. That argument has drawn stiff opposition from bloggers and traditional journalists. This is related to a case of an Apple news site, PowerPage.org, who leaked information about a FireWire audio interface for GarageBand that has been codenamed 'Asteroid.' The subpoena is on hold during the appeal. In the lawsuit, filed in late 2004, Apple is not suing the Mac news sites directly, but instead has focused on still-unnamed 'John Doe' defendants. The subpoena has been sent to Nfox.com, PowerPage's e-mail provider, which says it will comply if legally permitted."

Red Hat to Acquire JBoss 159

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday April 10, 2006 @10:39AM from the i'm-sure-that's-important-to-someone dept.

tecker writes "Redhat.com has a banner and press release that states that it will be Red Hat that will buy JBoss and not Oracle as previously thought. The press release states "the world's leading provider of open source solutions to the enterprise, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire JBoss, the global leader in open source middleware. By acquiring JBoss, Red Hat expects to accelerate the shift to service-oriented architectures (SOA), by enabling the next generation of web-enabled applications running on a low-cost, open source platform." Could it be that a one company server package that will rival Microsoft's Windows Server 2003 and ASP will finally emerge?"

NVIDIA Launches New SLI Physics Technology 299

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday March 20, 2006 @04:07PM from the volunteer-rendering dept.

Thomas Hines writes "NVIDIA just launched a new SLI Physics technology. It offloads the physics processing from the CPU to the graphics card. According to the benchmark, it improves the frame rate by more than 10x. Certainly worth investing in SLI if it works."

Mozilla Firefox 2.0 Alpha Peeking Out (Or Not) 216

Posted by Hemos on Monday March 20, 2006 @09:05AM from the take-a-walk-on-the-wild-side dept.

anadgouda writes "Mozilla Firefox 2.0 alpha is released. The links for download were not available directly on Mozilla.com website. Being Alpha, all features might not work and most of the plugins might not be compatible." Reading thru the comments, it appears there's some disparity as to whether or not this is actually just a naming scheme that they use; but let me reiterate that there has been no official announcement from Mozilla, so take with a giant grain of salt. Some good screenshots at OSdir.

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