____/ John Locke on Monday 11 February 2008 21:02 : \____
> On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:43:39 +0000, Mark Kent <mark.kent@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>>Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> Alfresco's Open Source Barometer
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>| One of the most interesting additions to the survey this year is a
>>>| question about which office suite people use. Overall, OpenOffice.org
>>>| chalks up a very respectable 24% to Microsoft Office's 66%. This is a much
>>>| higher penetration than I would have guessed for open source on the
>>>| desktop, and suggests that among those adopting open source programs
>>>| OpenOffice.org is doing really well ? pretty much at the Firefox level of
>>>| success.
>>> `----
>>>
>>>
http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=475&blogid=14
>>>
>>> Last year it was 20% of The Register's reader who said they were using
>>> OpenOffice.org.
>>
>>Interesting... the only interesting metric of foss usage is foss usage.
>>As there is no market for linux itself, or at least, a very small one,
>>it's not something you can quantify, since there's nothing to quantify,
>>however, usage is the interesting thing.
>>
>>OO.org at 24% is large enough to be essentially unstoppable now, in
>>spite of all Microsoft's efforts at corrupting both ECMA and ISO.
>>
> I think the days of high priced office solutions from Microsoft are
> numbered. There are now other viable options...even Abiword
> if you just need some word processing !
This has just been acknowledged by Microsoft which set it's Office Live (read:
Google catchup) free, despite the fact that a Microsoft manager said there was
poor demand for it. It was roughly 4 months ago.
OOXML is Microsoft's attempt to survive the Web era, making documents and
programs incompatible unless they are from Microsoft.
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~~ Best of wishes
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