__/ [ 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).
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