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Date:	Thu, 25 Sep 2003 08:17:48 PDT7
From:	Tim Cardozo <tcardoz@surewest.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-general@scoug.com
To:	SCOUG-general <SCOUG-general@scoug.com >
Subject:	SCOUG-General: Open Office on OS/2 and eCS Previews at Warpstock 2003

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Warpstock 2003 in San Francisco, taking place the weekend of
October 18th, will host an important presentation previewing the
newly announced support for Open Office on OS/2 and eCS. Here's
the background info.

Serenity Systems, NorthLAN Solutions, and Innotek Systemberatung
recently concluded an agreement to, "make Open Office support
available to OS/2 users". While complete details of this
agreement remain confidential, we do know that Innotek will be
doing the development and that Serenity will offer the product to
end users through its reseller channel.

Innotek's Oliver Stein will be making a presentation at Warpstock
2003 during which he will demo the code, tell us what Open Office
is, and what the OS/2 specifics are. He'll also be covering the
results of their first tests (" ... the performance will be
really impressive.") and how Innotek's great font engine can be
used to get the best possible WSIWYG on-screen display. Oliver
will also be clarifying the timings of expected beta and General
Availability roll-outs of this exciting new choice for OS/2 and
eCS office productivity software users!

Warpstock 2003 will be at the Doubletree Hotel San Francisco
Airport the weekend of October 18th and 19th. Remember, both
discounted Warpstock registration and Doubletree hotel room rates
are only available through Thursday, September 25th. So, save
yourself some money! Register for Warpstock and make your room
reservations today!

Here's the link to the Doubletree Hotel San Francisco Airport's
homepage:
<http://www.doubletree.com/en/dt/hotels/index.jhtml?ctyhocn=SFOAODT>

The hotel's direct number is 1-650-344-5500. Their FAX number is
1-650-340-8851.

Here is Hilton's secure reservations URL for making Warpstock
2003 room reservations:

Finally, Early Bird Pricing of only $99 for both days, for
Warpstock itself, also ends Thursday. Friday that rate goes up
to $140! Think of it as getting the Social, a $50 cost, for
nearly free! So, save yourself save some money and register
before Friday at this URL:
<http://www.bamart.com/Store.asp?m=Warpstockinc&n=9&k=4268&s=Registration>

Here's some further background info on Open Office and Innotek!

OpenOffice.org, web site home of the Open Office project, says,
"OpenOffice.org is both an Open Source product and a project.
The product is a multi-platform office productivity suite. It
includes the key desktop applications, such as a word processor,
spreadsheet, presentation manager, and drawing program, with a
user interface and feature set similar to other office suites'.
Sophisticated and flexible, OpenOffice.org also works
transparently with a variety of file formats, including those of
Microsoft Office.

"Available in 25 languages with more being constantly added by
the community. OpenOffice.org runs stably and natively on
Solaris, Linux (including PPC Linux), and Windows. Additional
ports, such as for FreeBSD, IRIX, and Mac OS X, are in various
stages of completion." We can now add OS/2 and eCS to that list!

Innotek has demonstrated its expertise in this area with various
projects including updated Adobe Acrobat and updated Java support
for OS/2 users. Read the Serenity Systems press release on this
new development at: <http://www.ecomstation.com/>

Warpstock, Inc., is a North Carolina corporation. The Warpstock
annual conference is a gathering of OS/2 users, developers, and
vendors from around the world for the purpose of education and
advocacy. More information is available at the Warpstock web
site: <http://www.warpstock.org>

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Timothy H. Cardozo
tcardoz@surewest.net

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