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Tonight Live: Codeweavers & Crossover Office 3.0
>> on The Linux Show!!
Tonight: On The Linux Show!!
Tuesday, June 8th, 2004 from Chicago IL
Tonight on www.thelinuxshow.com.
Kevin Hill, Arne Flones, Doc Searls, Russ Pavlicek AND Jeff
Gerhardt are bringing you a great show tonight. Are you ready to
go?????
ALL News Tonight. We will cover THE HOT
NEWS of the week including: Microsoft BS, Cell Phone BS,
Linux is BIG business, plus a clueless pundit or two…….. and
way more.
Story Links
- Andy
Tanenbaum’s Rebuttal to Ken Brown
Microsoft’s Sacred Cash Cow Seattle Weekly- Counting Linux
desktops Amy Wohl - Linux’
billion dollar quarter IDC
Cell phone companies know your fury The AP Wire
Music industry readies fresh wave of lawsuits Reuters- Microsoft
appeals landmark decision by EU The AP Wire - Linux Today
founder calls for a boycott of Linux TodayNOTE: TLS
DOES NOT support this boycott but respects the positions of
differing opinions on this subject.
Segment Two- Codeweavers & Crossover Office
3.0– A update from Jeremy White
We will be joined tonight by Jeremy White, Founder and CEO of
CodeWeavers, Inc. CodeWeavers is the leading corporate backer of
the Wine Project. Although a for profit business, CodeWeavers is a
firm believer in the Open Source business model. Every single
product and project they have developed over the past three years
has had all of the changes and improvements made to Wine returned
back to the Wine Project.
Wine is an open source software initiative that is
systematically re-implementing the Win32 API under Linux. Wine
makes it possible for Linux PCs to run Windows application as if
natively. They offer a range of Wine-based products offering
cross-platform capabilities for both corporate environments as well
as individual Linux enthusiasts.
CodeWeavers recently announced the release of CrossOver Office
3.0, their Linux desktop productivity tool. CrossOver Office allows
you to run many popular office productivity software applications,
such as Microsoft Office, Lotus Notes, Microsoft Project and Visio,
graphics applications like Macromedia Dreamweaver MX, Flash MX, and
Adobe Photoshop, and many more. Not only that, but CrossOver Office
also allows you to use many Windows Web browser plugins, such as
QuickTime and Shockwave, directly on your Linux browser. No Windows
Operating System license required; CrossOver is a complete
replacement for your Windows OS as far as your applications are
concerned.
They offer two versions of CrossOver Office: Professional and
Standard. The Standard version provides home users and Linux
enthusiasts with all of the great features that CrossOver has
always been noted for, at an affordable price point. Professional
builds on the functionality of Standard, by adding enhanced
deployability features, as well as the ability to run CrossOver in
shared mode from a single machine. Professional also comes with a
longer support period, and a higher support level, making it a more
robust Windows-to-Linux migration tool.
Prior to founding CodeWeavers, Jeremy was a founder and CTO of
Holten, White and Associates, a Minneapolis based computer
consulting firm. Jeremy first worked with Slackware Linux in the
early 1990’s, and quickly became enamoured of the Free Software
movement. One day, while looking for an Atari 2600 emulator, Jeremy
stumbled across the Wine project, and was captivated by both the
challenge and promise of Wine. This eventually led to the
reorganization of CodeWeavers around the Wine project. Jeremy
graduated from Carleton College, in Northfield, Minnesota with a BA
in Physics. Jeremy is active in a number of Linux and community
groups, but spends the bulk of his free time playing with his two
children.
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