It would seem so. I’ve been testing the Beta versions of OpenOffice.org 3.0, tentatively scheduled for release this fall. We are currently up to Beta 2, which I have installed on my PC’s, but I still need to get my work PC updated (which requires one of the administrators to come and do the work). So on the marketing list, someone pointed out this advertisement for a job with Microsoft. It is for a Marketing Manager position with something called the Breadth Team. From what I can tell, the Breadth Team focuses on pushing Microsoft products to small and medium size businesses (SMBs).
Down buried in the add is this bit of information about what the team does:
“helping our field and partners win against our biggest competitors in this space, particularly OpenOffice and MySQL”
Yep, you read it right - Microsoft’s Breadth Team, trying to make sales in the SMB market, is particularly concerned with OpenOffice and MySQL. If you’ve read much here, hopefully you already know all about OpenOffice.org and maybe have even tried it out (it is all I use) for your office productivity suite. I highly recommend it. (more…)
Wow, only five months. This past Friday I hit the 10,000 mile mark with my new Mini. Does it count as a “new” Mini after 10,000 miles? Whatever, it has been a great initial 10,000 miles with it. I’ve found a few twisty roads in Alamance County. The Mini has been on Hwy. 66 north of Winston-Salem on the Bullfrog Run - awesome road there. It has been down Old Liberty Highway in Randolph County as part of the THMMC Dine & Dash event (also affectionately referred to as the Liberty City run, kind of GTA-ish). Most recently I completed a modified Tour de Steamplume hitting Wake, Chatham, and Harnett counties. And of course, the Mac Daddy of the drives so far, the entire Blue Ridge Parkway. Yes, I am now and End-to-Ender.
