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Measuring the true success of OpenOffice.org
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| Is success measured in downloads, or up-loads ? are bugs filed as good as
| bugs fixed ? are volunteer marketers as valuable as volunteer developers ? If
| we have lots of bugs filed and lots of volunteer management material is that
| success ? is the pace of change important ? Does successful QA exist to
| create process to slow and reject changes, or by accelerating inclusion of
| fixes improve quality ? Is success having complete, up-to-date and detailed
| specifications for every feature ? Is success getting everyone to slavishly
| obey laborious multi-step processes, before every commit ? Alternatively does
| success come through attracting and empowering developers, who have such fun
| writing the code that they volunteer their life, allegiance and dreams to
| improve it ?
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http://www.gnome.org/~michael/blog/ooo-commit-stats-2008.html
Is OpenOffice good enough?
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| I still stick with my original answer: yes, it is. For the vast majority of
| users (students, teachers, and administrators, especially), OpenOffice is
| more than good enough. The price is certainly right, too.
|
| Even for the most savvy power users, OpenOffice will suffice. However,
| secretaries, as we all know, run our schools. Anything we can do to keep them
| happy and make them as productive as possible should probably be a high
| priority for us.
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http://education.zdnet.com/?p=1893
Open Source in Education
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| The UK Government, even more so now they have just spanked £500bn propping up
| the banking system, must start to act and reduce the outrageous and
| completely wasteful expenditure on proprietary software. Why oh why don’t we
| just do a nation-wide roll out of OpenOffice.org to EVERY computer in the
| public sector and especially in Education? It would be a good start, and then
| we can get rid of that festering boil called Windows later.
|
| * No more extortionate upgrade costs,
| * no more public documents created in binary, patent encumbered formats,
| * an end to the single vendor lock-in and monopoly,
| * no more two-tier children…
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http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/10/10/open-source-in-education/
Recent:
Just a coincidence?
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| According to Davide Dozza, Chairman of Associazione PLIO: "The numbers are
| exactly the same. If it's just a coincidence, it's a very strange one.
| Downloads of the Italian version of OpenOffice.org were 800.000 in 2006 and
| 1.800.000 in 2007: the difference is exactly in the million of Italians
| that - according to Microsoft - have downloaded the trial version of Office
| 2007. We think that these users have decided to switch to OpenOffice.org as
| soon as they have realized that the effort to get used to the new ribbon
| interface is higher than the effort to migrate to the open source suite. In
| 2007, the majority of information requests has been about the compatibility
| with Windows Vista, and the trend stays unchanged in 2008".
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http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2008/01/just-coincidence.html
Related:
Sun Adds New Twinkle to StarOffice, OpenOffice
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| Roughly 1 million copies of OpenOffice.org are downloaded per week, not
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| including distributions through vendors such as Google, Herring said.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/60767.html
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