OpenOffice.org is throwing a launch party in Paris on Monday, October 13th to mark the eighth anniversary of the open source office software suite and --- simultaneously --- to mark release of version 3.0. The launch event will be sponsored by the Region Ile de France, Silicon Sentier, and OpenOffice. The party is open to everyone, and registration is available online.
Note taking on Writer documents is now much more usableand more ...Open Office 3.0 is Available for the following platforms:
Linux
Mac OS (Intel)
Solaris Sparc
Solaris x86
Windows (32-bit)Can't want for Monday and want it now? There are a few sites such as MajorGeeks hosting the Windows version.In general, though, go to the page listing the OpenOffice.org mirrors, and you can usually find the images in openoffice/stable/3.0.0/on their FTP site. For example, here and here. The cautious can wait until Monday, but the rest of you, start downloading and start playing around with it.

Yesterday, we attended a Business Wire presentation. Business Wire is a Berkshire Hathaway Company (Public, NYSE:BRK.A). Did you know that?! We have used the services of the Business Wire over the years, but that association encouraged us to go - they must be good! We wonder how we missed the Warren Buffet connection. We asked them. We met a couple interesting people and understood just how far removed we were from their world. The topic was Web 2.0 and the tools they have developed to promote their customers as they want to be promoted. We would have shown this, but it may have been too much.