OpenOffice.org Newsletter in Danish

The monthly newsletter is again on the street. This time with a breaking story about the Municipal of Tønder.

All elementary schools have changed to the use of free and open source software and the municipal has actually made a financial benefit analysis showing cost reduction DKK 410.000. If we project this amount of money into national level, we are talking about DKK 55 mio. that could be spend on more valuable project, teach books etc.

Newsletter: http://doc.oooforum.dk/Nyhed/2008Marts.pdf
Municipal of Tønder: http://www.toender.dk
Comments on Version2.dk: http://www.version2.dk/artikel/6450

Windmill out of control

Yesterday we had quite a storm around Denmark. We are used to windy weather and a small storm like this shouldn't be a problem. Anyway, we usually see some things happen from time to time. This time it was a windmill from Vestas.

Open ? - Yah right !

Microsoft has announced that they are open.
http://www.version2.dk/artikel/6341 (Danish) about Steve Balmers announcment from yesterday

Yah, and I believe in Santa.

Of cause I see any approach from Microsoft towards openness and interoperability as positive. But my experience with that company is, that they say one thing and continues as nothing has happened.

http://www.version2.dk/artikel/6346 (Danish) about the European Commission in doubt about Microsoft being honest.

From my own point of view, this is just Microsoft trying to catch a few votes in the BRM meeting in Geneva next week. Many of the outstanding objections to ISO approval of OOXML is about referencing binary and proprietary file formats. Some participants might change their vote to a yes if Microsoft can convince them, that these file formats are open in some way.

The big problem is, that none o the participants have time to find out whats behind all this.
http://www.version2.dk/artikel/6340 (Danish) about warning: It's happening too fast.
They can only read the headlines, not the complete articles. Microsoft hopes that they can change votes from the headlines only.

Openoffice.org as integrated format in Lotus Notes

Yesterday and the day before I have been writing about how we have implemented OpenOffice.org text documents in our product eOffice.

Today we did the same in Symfoni QMS Quality Manager.

http://www.symfonisoftware.com/symfoniweb/sym010.nsf/pages/produktspek.html?open&prodkey=reportingofaccidents/deviations

So far we have implemented the document format successfully in the editorial process but there is still a few problems when publishing to public. I expect that we will finish this by tomorrow.

Maps and random photos from the air

There are plenty of examples of funny situations on Google maps and similar projects. Take a look at this one:
http://www.findvej.dk/?latitude=56.18255&longitude=10.19675&maptype=2&zoom=19&text=Lastbil

Is it one of the many examples of wrong perspective ?

No. The truck is actually on its side. you can see the help is already there (Read trucks to the left of the truck).