Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> __/ [ Mark Kent ] on Saturday 24 February 2007 09:43 \__
>
>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> __/ [ Mark Kent ] on Saturday 24 February 2007 07:48 \__
>>>
>>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>>> Google manager: Google Apps replaced Microsoft Office at 100,000
>>>>> businesses
>>>>>
>>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>>>| Google's newly released online productivity suite Google Apps has
>>>>>| already replaced Microsoft Office at more than 100,000 small to
>>>>>| medium enterprises and has been deployed at two of the largest
>>>>>| companies in the world, according to the search leader's
>>>>>| enterprise product boss.
>>>>> `----
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/9889/53/
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> If google apps have managed 100,000 SMEs, how many are using Open
>>>> Office, I wonder?
>>>
>>> Nobody knows. It's open source and it doesn't phone home. All we have are
>>> some download counters from last year.
>>>
>>> 100,000,000 OpenOffice.org fans can't be wrong
>>
>> Um, interesting - 100 downloads of OpenOffice for every user of Google
>> Apps. There should be a massive potential for support there, too.
>>
>> <snip Mr Phipps>
>
> This does not include all the people who get OpenOffice in the form of a
> CD-ROM or even a USB pen (e.g. 175,000 French students). That's why download
> count says too little and only paid-for market surveys is what you're left
> with. With the rise of ODF, the attraction of OpenOffice and other
> ODF-friendly software will soar. IBM is in this game too (Lotus)... not just
> Google, KDE, Abiword... Corel and Novell have Microsoft grabbing them by the
> balls, so they also intend to offer an OOXML option (they'll never manage to
> get this replicated.... oops... I mean implemented).
>
As OpenOffice is included with Debian, then a count of the number of
Debian downloads would also be of interest, I suppose. But as you say,
trying to count installations of free software is, in the end, a
fruitless activity.
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