OpenSuse 11.0 is coming NOW (in a few hours)

Mats Jansson  June 19 2008 06:25:48 AM

OpenSuse 11.0 will be here in just a few hours. Guess who is going to upgrade...
"The next version of openSUSE is coming today! Some of the new features and cool innovations in openSUSE 11.0 include updated desktops with new features, including the revolutionary new KDE 4; a new installer which makes the installation quicker and nicer; Live CDs so you can try openSUSE before committing; innovative new desktop effects, quicker and slicker software management, and many new applications to improve your daily life."
 

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Old news, Domino and Notes 8.5 is here

Mats Jansson  June 10 2008 03:58:51 PM

I hav'nt had the time to blog for a while. Here is my comments about what have happened.
Beta 1 of Notes and domino 8.5 is here, and it looks greate - under the hood. On the desktop it is not a big deal. The most changes is on he server. Changes on thinks like roaming, attachment store, mail routing, id-store, user management. These changes is in most cases not visible to the end user.
On the Notes client some changes are made, like the possibility to see iCal feeds in the calendar. Google calendar is one of them. There is not a lot of them but NHL have one and "remembertemilk" has another.
My opinion (witch has to be the bottom line) is that there is a big thing missing in the calendar features. The possibility to have a calendar in domino to act like a iCal feed. Hpoefully we will hav this soon.

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Internet usage and Maslows hierachy

Mats Jansson  May 25 2008 07:19:58 AM

Maslows hiearchy of needs, a theory that You learned in school, was stating that the most important things in live is food and warmth. On the top things like career. How does this fit in to the mordern society.
Where does Internet usage come in and what steeres this.


In China there is over 210000 internetusers, just the same number as in US. But in penetration of the country it is barely 16%, where US have over 70 % penetration. Sweden is a little bit ahead of US with 77 %. This is fact from the Internet World Stats .  Africa in common has a penetration of 5.3 %, and Asia 13.7 %. What can we leard here? The internet usage can be used to measure the wealth of a country, and it is placed in the topmost half of the hiearchy. The poorer country the less internetusers. For the human it is almost hte same. Food, of course comes ahead of computers.
Deter is thou strage figures in the statistics. Somalia one of the worlds poorest countries, with 9.7 mil. inhabitans has 94000 internetusers. Liberia has 1000.
One other refection is that these countries can be a enormous market for IT- industrie. When the countries has reached a step further due to Maslow. China is there and, but still has a big share left to go with 15.9 %.  There is over 1 bil. people i China without internet. And IBM, probably without a PC, and software. Notes has 150 milj users, how about getting som from China or Africa, 5 % from China is a substatial raise.

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Pool project update

Mats Jansson  May 24 2008 11:51:06 AM

 Here is an update of the pool project

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PUBLIC BETA for Notes/Domino 8.5

Mats Jansson  May 23 2008 12:28:40 PM

This is cut out from Notes/Domino 8 forum
I know there will be some pretty interesting stuff to check out !

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The IBM Lotus Notes/Domino 8.5 development team has been hard at work since Lotusphere 2008!!

The GREAT news is that a PUBLIC BETA for Notes/Domino 8.5 will begin shortly (within a couple of weeks, late May or early June), where we will unveil the latest beta versions of the Notes 8.5 client for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and Citrix, as well as, Domino 8.5 server for Windows (32 & 64bit), AIX (32 & 64bit), Linux, Solaris, and System i (newly renamed to just i).

Stay tuned for further announcements in this forum as we get closer to the start of the PUBLIC beta for Notes/Domino 8.5!

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Microsoft supports ODF

Mats Jansson  May 23 2008 11:53:35 AM

Yesterday Microsoft surprisingly announced that they will support Open Document format (ODF). Microsoft also participates in the OASIS organisation. More of this to read on this article from John D. Head and in the pressrelease. Computer Sweden add some interesting details. Microsoft is not going to support the ISO certified OOXML format in Office 2007, but will support an older version in that release. The support for ISO certified OOXML win not be available until next release of MS Office. There is severe differences between the two versions of OOXML. Knowing  MS backwards compability history, my personal view is that it is probably so that the customer has to convert the documents between the new OOXML version. Thank god ODF is supported.

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