1) Get StarOffice 6.0 FREE with Ximian Desktop Professional Edition, Red
Carpet Express
2) New Red Hat 7.3, Mandrake 8.2 and Yellow Dog 2.2 Distribution Support
3) Solaris Users: Get Connected to Exchange 2000
4) Getting Help: Visit http://support.ximian.com
5) Tip: Using Ximian Evolution with KDE and Solaris (CDE)
6) Customer Spotlight: Zumiez
7) Upcoming Ximian Events
(1) Get StarOffice 6.0 FREE with Ximian Desktop Professional Edition,
Red Carpet Express
Ximian is now including Sun StarOffice 6.0 for Linux with Ximian
Desktop Professional Edition and the Red Carpet Express premium
high-speed software updating service. StarOffice 6.0, which has a
suggested retail price of $75.95, is a new, significantly enhanced
version of the Microsoft Office compatible productivity application
application suite for word processing, spreadsheet, business
graphics and drawing/diagramming. Tightly integrated with Ximian
Desktop, StarOffice 6.0 provides one-click email attachment handling
of Word, Excel and Powerpoint files.
StarOffice 6.0 is bundled with:
* Ximian Desktop Professional Edition, priced at $59.95, including
90 days of web-based technical support.
* Red Carpet Express, with subscriptions priced at $9.95 per month
and $99.95 per year.
* Red Carpet CorporateConnect, which includes a license for
StarOffice 6.0 included with each paid seat, priced at $150 per year
per seat.
To order your copy of Ximian Desktop Professional Edition, visit the
Ximian store at:
https://store.ximian.com/xproddetail.php?sku=XD200502-PRO-E
To subscribe to Red Carpet Express:
https://store.ximian.com/redcarpet/rcx-signup.php
Read the official announcement:
http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/soffice_6.html
(2) New Red Hat 7.3, Mandrake 8.2 and Yellow Dog 2.2 Distribution
Support
Ximian recently delivered new versions of Ximian Evolution, Red
Carpet and Ximian GNOME certified for use with the latest Linux
distributions from Red Hat (7.3); Mandrake (8.2) and Yellow Dog
2.2. Ximian Desktop software can be purchased on CD at:
https://store.ximian.com
or downloaded for free at:
http://www.ximian.com/download.
Watch the Ximian web site for upcoming distribution support,
including SuSE 8.0.
(3) Solaris Users: Get Connected to Exchange 2000
Ximian Connector, which enables Ximian Evolution to function as a
Microsoft Exchange 200 client for email, group scheduling, global
address book access, and other important corporate functions, has
been extended to support Solaris 8.0 systems. Now, in corporations
who have standardized on Microsoft Exchange 2000 for messaging and
calendar functions, Linux and UNIX users alike can use Ximian
Evolution to collaborate with their colleagues running Windows.
"After installing Ximian Connector, I became a full-fledged member
of the my employer's calendaring community. My responses to meeting
requests initiated by Outlook users worked correctly and
consistently. Best of all, installation was trivial - right-clicking
on the license that I received via email gave me the option to
install the Connector license, which worked flawlessly." Bill Von
Hagen, Linux Planet.
Learn more about Ximian Connector for Microsoft Exchange:
http://www.ximian.com/products/connector/
(4) Getting Help: Visit http://support.ximian.com
Did you know that Ximian offers a free knowledge base to help you
find answers and solve problems? Visit http://support.ximian.com to
learn about free and premium support options from Ximian.
(5) Tip: Using Ximian Evolution with KDE and Solaris (CDE)
Ximian recently shipped new installers that dramatically simplify
the process of using Ximian Evolution on systems running KDE and
CDE. Now, you no longer have to install all of GNOME if you want to
use Ximian Evolution. Just choose "Install Evolution only" from the
Ximian Desktop installer, and only those packages required by
Evolution will be installed.
(6) Customer Spotlight: Zumiez
From upstate New York to Seattle, Zumiez stores are the place to
find the latest snowboarding and skateboarding hardware, clothes,
and shoes. In a retail sector where "bleeding edge" threads and gear
have driven rapid growth, this 89-store chain, based in Everett,
Wash., can't open outlets fast enough. To manage this rapid
expansion, Zumiez is bringing Linux, and Ximian software, into the
mall.
By the end of May, the 1,200-employee, privately held chain will
have installed open-source software on the PCs at all its retail
locations to enable managers to browse the intranet, do email,
manage company calendars, and complete their financials. Those
computers are using of Ximian Desktop software customized by Zumiez,
including Ximian Evolution, Gnumeric and Mozilla on systems running
the Red Hat version of the Linux operating system. They will also
run the Zumiez point-of-sale (POS) retail-management system.
According to Zumiez' retail-systems manager, Rory Hudson, the shift
to open-source software will cut the tech budget by between $250,000
and $500,000 a year.
See Business Week Online:
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/may2002/tc20020515_3938.htm
(7) Upcoming Ximian Events
Ximian will be attending or supporting Technical Conferences/Linux
User Group meetings in Monterey, CA (USENIX: June 10-15) New
Hampshire (June 26), and Jacksonville, Florida (ITEC: June 12&13).
If you are organizing an upcoming LUG meeting, let Greg
Mancusi-Ungaro, Ximian Director of Marketing Communications, know by
emailing him at gregmu@ximian.com.
