The Bordeaux Technology Group

Hello Everyone,

The new dedicated server is now in place and all downloads should now work without any problems what so ever.

If you have put off your purchase of Bordeaux 2.0.0 while the server was being upgraded you can now proceed with your purchase and enjoy the benefits of the 2.0.0 release.

We have also tested the new server from multiple locations around the globe and everything is now working better then ever before.

Thanks for your Support!

The Bordeaux Team

Over the past couple weeks our server has been under a high load with the release of Bordeaux 2.0.0 for Solaris and Linux. Allot of our customers have had problems with their file downloads timing out in the past couple weeks and I thought the problem would resolve it's self and the load would go down after a day or two... Well it hasn't happened, in a sense this is good news as allot of people are interested in the new Bordeaux 2.0.0 release. But it's bad news when your customers cant get the software they purchased.

To resolve this problem we our going to be upgrading to a "Dedicated Server" that has allot more memory and Bandwidth then what our old server has. The new server will help people with slower Internet connections as we can configure Apache not to time out on slower connections. After the new Server is up and configured the site should be faster and downloads more reliable.

You can rest assure we know about the problems and were doing everything we can to resolve then as quickly as possible. So we would like to ask everyone to please be patient for a couple days until we have the new server in place.

Contact: Steven Edwards
Email: sedwards@bordeauxgroup.com

STEVEN EDWARDS RELEASES BORDEAUX 2.0.0 FOR LINUX

Steven Edwards of the Bordeaux Technology Group released Bordeaux 2.0.0 for Linux today. Bordeaux 2.0.0 marks major progress over older releases. With version 2.0.0 and onward we bundle our own Wine build and many tools and libraries that Wine depends upon. With this release we bundle Wine 1.1.36, Cabextract, Mozilla Gecko, Unzip, Wget and other support libraries and tools. We have improved support for Microsoft Office 2007 (Word, Excel and PowerPoint) and preliminary support for Internet Explorer 7 in this release, there has also been many small bug fixes and tweaks on the back-end.

The cost of Bordeaux 2.0.0 is $20.00. Anyone who has purchased Bordeaux in the past six months is entitled to a free upgrade. Bordeaux comes with six months of upgrades and support and of course a 30-day money back guarantee.

Contact: Steven Edwards
Email: sedwards@bordeauxgroup.com

STEVEN EDWARDS RELEASES BORDEAUX 2.0.0 FOR SOLARIS AND OPENSOLARIS

Steven Edwards of the Bordeaux Technology Group released Bordeaux 2.0.0 for Solaris today. Bordeaux 2.0.0 marks major progress over older releases. With version 2.0.0 and onward we bundle our own Wine build and many tools and libraries that Wine depends upon. With this release we bundle Wine 1.1.36, Cabextract, Mozilla Gecko, Unzip, Wget and other support libraries and tools. We have also added preliminary support for Microsoft Office 2007 (Word, Excel and PowerPoint) and Internet Explorer 7 in this release, there has also been many small bug fixes and tweaks on the back-end.

The cost of Bordeaux 2.0.0 is $25.00. Anyone who has purchased Bordeaux in the past six months is entitled to a free upgrade. Bordeaux comes with six months of upgrades and support and of course a 30-day money back guarantee.

Aren't your T-shirts too dull? All my StarWars tees have a lot of colours and shades...

We think different, and give preference to quality over amount of colours. Those princess Leia in bikini T-shirts are printed with a technique called transfer, which more or less is like putting your T-shirt inside a printer.

We use screen printing, a technique that limits us to 6 colours per T-shirt (besides the T-shirt base color), but in return print quality is better, and your T-shirts will survive washmachines, pets and some small tsunami. Furthermore, we individually iron each T-shirt after printing, so that the design finish is smooth, firm and able to stand more tempests.

And what the hell, good things in this life have less than 6 colours: black chocolate (#000), a terminal (#000 and #fff, or #000 and #0f0 if you are that kind of geek), ...

Contact: Steven Edwards
Email: sedwards@bordeauxgroup.com

STEVEN EDWARDS RELEASES BORDEAUX 1.8.6 FOR Linux

Steven Edwards of the Bordeaux Technology Group released Bordeaux 1.8.6 for Linux today. Bordeaux 1.8.6 fixes a critical bug in the rpcrt4.dll. If you have had problems with Bordeaux 1.8.x not installing a application we recommend you update to 1.8.6 and the problem should now be resolved. There has also been a couple other small bug fixes and tweaks.

Bordeaux 1.8.6 was tested against Wine 1.1.26

The cost of Bordeaux 1.8.6 is $20.00. Anyone who has purchased Bordeaux in the past six months is entitled to a free upgrade. Bordeaux comes with six months of upgrades and support and of course a 30-day money back guarantee.

Juraj Šípoš Who maintains http://www.freebsd.nfo.sk/ did a interview with me about Bordeaux, About what Bordeaux is and the future plans of the project. I'm posting the English version of the interview if you want to read the original interview in Slovak it's posted here: www.linuxexpres.cz with screenshots.

I found Bordeaux looking for some Wine enhancements and I came across the bordeauxgroup.com website.

Bordeaux is a commercial front-end or User Interface for Wine, which shows users the way to a comfort zone, as Wine is sometimes difficult to use. The Bordeaux Technology Group distributes Bordeaux and Tom Wickline is in charge of sales and support. I interviewed him to get some answers and details about this project. Here they are.

1) Bordeaux is the name for any Wine produced in the Bordeaux region of France. Why did you choose this name when there are also other famous brands of wine?

Contact: Steven Edwards
Email: sedwards@bordeauxgroup.com

STEVEN EDWARDS RELEASES BORDEAUX 1.8.4 FOR Linux

Steven Edwards of the Bordeaux Technology Group released Bordeaux 1.8.4 for Linux today. Bordeaux 1.8.4 fixes a critical bug in our wget implementation. If you have had problems with Bordeaux 1.8.2 not installing a application we recommend you update to 1.8.4 and the problem should now be resolved. There has also been a couple other small bug fixes and tweaks.

Bordeaux 1.8.4 was tested against Wine 1.1.26

The cost of Bordeaux 1.8.4 is $20.00. Anyone who has purchased Bordeaux in the past six months is entitled to a free upgrade. Bordeaux comes with six months of upgrades and support and of course a 30-day money back guarantee.

I thought this would be a good time for us to share our next six months outlook for Bordeaux. Maybe I should start with whats taken place over the past few months then go over our future goals.

Over the past six months it's has been extremely exciting times around here, we shipped Bordeaux for Solaris and now its allot easier for Solaris and OpenSolaris users to use Wine to run Office 2003, Adobe Photoshop and other applications on their systems.

We also have a Bordeaux beta for MAC users and this is where allot of energy has been going lately. Once Bordeaux 2.0 for MAC ships it will be easy and inexpensive for MAC users to run IE 7 and Microsoft Office on their beloved Mac's.

We also refreshed Bordeaux for BSD and Linux twice thus far this year and added QuickTime Player and IrfanView support. fixed a number of bugs and tweaked the install scripts for cleaner installs.

In the next few months, we plan to ship Bordeaux 2.0 and this is where 95% of our work has been focused. We started off by re-writing our build and install scripts so they were portable across all platforms. Then we bundled in Cabextract, unnzip and wget to get a feel of the bundling process. And with bundling in these tools it makes life allot easier for the end user as they don't have to go out ad install each tool on their system. It's just there and it just works.

We have had some recent request for ways to purchase Bordeaux other then through PayPal. So as of today we have Bordeaux listed at Payloadz.com and can be purchased without the need of a PayPal account.

Payloadz will let you use your credit or debit card to make a direct payment and access to five downloads through their servers.

If you do prefer to use PayPal just go to our store and make your purchase there.

			Bordeaux for FreeBSD by: Wine Reviews Price:$ 20.00 USD

			Bordeaux for PC-BSD by: Wine Reviews Price:$ 20.00 USD

			Bordeaux for Solaris by: Wine Reviews Price:$ 25.00 USD

			Bordeaux for Linux by: Wine Reviews Price:$ 20.00 USD