Fwd: [Slugnet] [OT] StarOffice, Linux fly high on Singapore Airlines

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From: John Thng <johnthng83@gmail.com>
Date: May 31, 2007 1:04 AM
Subject: Re: [Slugnet] [OT] StarOffice, Linux fly high on Singapore Airlines
To: Soh Kam Yung <sohkamyung@gmail.com>
Cc: slugnet@lugs.org.sg

This is great. At least people will knew that there's still software outside Microsoft products especially to Singaporeans.

On 5/30/07, Soh Kam Yung <sohkamyung@gmail.com> wrote:

( http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS2964256534.html)

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StarOffice, Linux fly high on Singapore Airlines
May 29, 2007

Singapore Airlines is offering access to Sun's StarOffice 8 office
productivity suite free of charge to passengers on its new Boeing
777-300ER aircraft. StarOffice, Sun's proprietary version of
OpenOffice.org, runs on the aircraft's Linux server and is accessed
via a seat-back terminal at each passenger's seat, according to Sun.

Thanks to new USB ports embedded in the armrest of each chair (near
the headphone jack), passengers now can use a USB key (aka thumb
drive) -- or other portable drive -- to access their documents,
spreadsheets, and presentation files from software running on the
plane's Linux server.

[...]

"With heightened security, access to laptops during flights can
sometimes be restricted," said Wong Heng Chew, managing director at
Sun's Singapore division. "The availability of StarOffice ... offers
Singapore Airlines' customers the opportunity to work on and access
their information in an open, secure and freely available fashion
independent of any vendor or file formats during their flights."

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