desktoplinux.com — ingapore 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.
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schestowitzMay 30, 2007
If it's up in the sky, does that count as market share? ;-)100,000,000 OpenOffice.org fans can't be wrong<a class="user" href="http://www.businessreviewonline.com/os/archives/2006/11/100000000_openo.html">http://www.businessreviewonline.com/os/archives/2006/11/100000000_openo.html</a>The following large poll showed that 20% of the readers use OpenOffice.org...<a class="user" href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/20/desktop_office_suites/">http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/20/desktop_office_suites/</a>
buberfanMay 31, 2007
Let's hope that other airlines follow. It would be really cool to do stuff without squeezing your laptop in front of you.
jasonowlJun 7, 2007
Yup, I'm sure a couple more Airlines are in queue to get this going.... did the project so yeah.. I to hope more Airlines pick it up.. cheers... <a class="user" href="http://jasonowl.blogspot.com">http://jasonowl.blogspot.com</a>