Thursday, October 23, 2003

SuSE Linux upgrades Exchange competitor. SuSE Linux releases an update to its Openexchange Server software, with features intended to make it a more effective alternative to Microsoft's Exchange Server for e-mail and calendar functions. [CNET News.com - Front Door] 10:58:13 AM

thinstation thinstation-2.0 released (Thinstation). Total project downloads to date: 3119 Project description: Thinstation is a linux distribution for diskless thin clients terminals using standard x86 hardware. It can boot from network, floppy or flash-disk and connect to an application server using VNC, RDP, XDM, SSH, Telnet or Citrix ICA. [Download] [Release Notes] By mroper@users.sourceforge.net (Miles Roper). [SourceForge.net: Project File Releases (Site-wide)] 10:49:29 AM

Microsoft Office 2003 - Reviews, Overviews, Issues Microsoft Office 2003 - Reviews, Overviews, Issues Posted by simoniker on Thursday October 23, @02:52AM from the spectacular-conglomeration dept. securitas writes "The first users of Microsoft's Office 2003 are weighing in and the response is mixed. The new Outlook has received a favorable response, but the mantra seems to be there's little reason to upgrade unless you absolutely need the new features. Meanwhile, Bill Gates dismissed the open source competition. One of the new features - self-destructing documents - seems to have caused some confusion, because 'Microsoft says the new feature is not designed to remove all traces of a file' and MS spokesman Mike Pryke-Smith says, 'The message will still be in various places', so emails will not cleanly self-destruct. A related issue is the permissions technology called Information Rights Management, which may shut out Mac users. PC World has a detailed review of Office 2003 which sums things up well."  [Slashdot] 6:51:14 AM