Ernies Tech Thoughts

With OpenOfffice 2.01 being released last week, I have installed it, and removed both OpenOffice 1.1 and MS Office. So far it has all been positive with just a minor issue with a complex graph from an Excel spreadsheet.

One thing I did notice, and slightly concerned about is the need for the java runtime to have OpenOffice run [I don't remember this from v1]. It doesn’t cause me a technical issue as I already had the runtime on the PC, but is it really necessary. If Java was not a product of Sun I may have never given it a second thought, but it is. Maybe there was some outcry of this coupling, but I didn’t hear it. Possibly MS should take them to court.

Streber (a web based project management app) has made its latest release. There is still more work needed before a production release, but so far it looks very good. I have started using it internally for project tracking. Streber was originally to be the next version of netoffice (which I had been using), but all the code has been written from scratch.

Give it a look if you need a web based project management tool.