Larry Ellison – DECISION STATS

Libre Office (Beta) 3 Launched

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The guys who forked off Larry Ellison‘s Open Office launched Beta 3 .

Whats new-

DDE reconnect – the old DDE implementation was very quirky in that, opening and closing a DDE server document a few times would totally disconnect the link with the client document. Plus it also causes several other side-effects because of the way it accessed the server documents. The new implementation removes those quirkiness plus enables re-connection of DDE server client pair when the server document is loaded into LO when the client document is already open.

External reference rework – External reference handling has been re-worked to make it work within OFFSET function. In addition, this change allows Calc to read data directly from documents already loaded when possible. The old implementation would always load from disk even when the document was already loaded.

Autocorrect accidental caps locks – automatically corrects what appears to be a mis-cap such as tHIS or tHAT, as a result of the user not realizing the CAPS lock key was on. When correcting the mis-cap, it also automatically turns off CAPS lock (note: not working on Mac OS X yet). (translation)(look for accidental-caps-lock in the commit log)

Swapped default key bindings of Delete and Backspace keys in Calc – this was a major annoyance for former Excel users when migrating to Calc.

(look for delete-backspace-key in the commit log)

In Calc, hitting TAB during auto-complete commits current selection and moves to the next cell. Shift-TAB cycles through auto-complete selections.
and lots of bugs squashed….

_Announcement_

The Document Foundation is happy to announce the third beta of
LibreOffice 3.3. This beta comes with lots of improvements and
bugfixes. As usual, be warned that this is beta quality software –
nevertheless, we ask you to play with it – we very much welcome your
feedback and testing!

Please, download suitable package(s) from

http://www.documentfoundation.org/download/

install them, and start testing. Should you find bugs, please report
them to the FreeDesktop Bugzilla:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org

A detailed list of changes from the past four weeks of development is
to be found here:

http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Weekly_Summary

If you want to get involved with this exciting project, you can
contribute code:

http://www.documentfoundation.org/develop/

translate LibreOffice to your language:

http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/LibreOffice/i18n/translating_3.3

or just donate:

http://www.documentfoundation.org/contribution/

A list of known issues with Beta 3 is available from our wiki:

http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Beta3

Libre Office, Using Java To A Lesser Extent (lockergnome.com)
LibreOffice Productivity Suite v3.3.0 Beta 2 (lockergnome.com)
Microsoft Office 2010 Service Pack 1 beta has been made available to testers (downloadsquad.com)
Ralph Janke: LibreOffice: First Goals after Forking (drupal.txwikinger.me.uk)
LibreOffice 3.3.0 Beta 2 released (omgubuntu.co.uk)

Open Source Cartoon

Ok I promised a weekly cartoon on Friday but it’s Saturday.
Last week we spoofed Larry Ellison , Jim Goodnight and Bill Gates– people who created billions of taxes for the economy but would be regarded as evil by some open source guys- though they may have created more jobs for more families than the whole Federal Reserve Bank did in 2008-10. Jobs are necessary for families. Period.

You can review it here https://decisionstats.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/os1.png

In Part 2- we see Open Source is actually older than Stallman (yes people are older than Stallman) – in fact open source has been around for far more time than even

Jim Goodnight’s current age- which can be revealed by using proc goodnight options=all.

SAS vs Open Source, ctd (revolutionanalytics.com)
SAS vs Open Source (revolutionanalytics.com)
Internal Email on Why a Software Company Migrates Away from MySQL (enterpriseirregulars.com)
Microsoft is Still Attacking “Open Source” and Standards, But Has No Other Choice (techrights.org)
SAS CEO Jim Goodnight Will Participate in The Economist’s Ideas Economy: Human Potential Event in September (eon.businesswire.com)
Is Linux FOSS or open source? (zdnet.com)
Saturday Morning Cartoons Repeats Itself (tor.com)

Unbreakable Oracle Linux- and Unshakable-Libre Office-

Tux, the Linux penguin — Image via Wikipedia

Oracle announced Unbreakable Oracle Linux (which is the first time I have seen Unbreakable word used in a formal software name)- Hats off to good ol’ Larry chutzpah. It is also quite a fast form of Linux for Enterprises-as the stats say at http://www.oracle.com/us/technologies/linux/ubreakable-enterprise-kernel-linux-173350.html

LibreOffice is a new fork from OpenOffice– Basically people who want to ensure OpenOffice remains free. It basically consists of efforts from everybody except Apple, Microsoft and Oracle (http://www.documentfoundation.org/supporters/) and it’s a new kind of workable office productivity suite-determined to remain free. I have used it- a bit shaky- but I really liked the new design and willingly will test it (and auto submit bugs) . It would be interesting to see the reaction of enterprise vendors like SAS, IBM,Dell, HP (and Lenovo) and etc -as their support would be critical to both Unbreakable Oracle Linux and Unshakable LibreOffice.

See more here-http://www.documentfoundation.org/download/–