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> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> ____/ Richard Rasker on Thursday 18 September 2008 23:12 : \____
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>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>>>> OpenOffice.org 3.0 Promises New Life for Office Software
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>>>> | OpenOffice.org is in an unenviable place. Office suites -- word
>>>> | processors, spreadsheets, presentations and the ilk -- are
>>>> | utilitarian, complex bundles of software. They are a necessity of
>>>> | modern life, used daily by individuals and businesses all over the
>>>> | world.
>>>> `----
>>>
>>> Sorry to tell you, but this doesn't even get close. OO.o is still just a
>>> nice software product, but with no real inroads yet. OK as an
>>> alternative, and most people who try it like it, but it's just a piece of
>>> Open Source just like Firefox. Sure, it's a cause for mild concern for
>>> Microsoft, but it's not yet a real threat. No real numbers are involved
>>> yet. What DOES, however, cause mr. Ballmer having a *really* sweaty
>>> sleepless nights, interrupted by occasional nightmares where he stumbles
>>> in the middle of his famous Monkey Dance, and his throat so clenched that
>>> his "Developers Developers Developers" is but a hoarse croak, is the fact
>>> that low-end all-round laptop computers running Linux are flooding the
>>> market, already outselling Windows right now, with prospects only getting
>>> better -- for Linux, that is, not Windows. Most definitely Not Windows.
>>> Um, "Windows", you know, the big has-been? Nah, never mind.
>>>
>>> Richard Rasker
>>
>> I disagree with you. It has forced Microsoft to reduce the cost of one of
>> its very few profitable products. OOo is a product Microsoft tries to keep
>> low in terms of adoption by permitting people to make illegal copies of
>> Office or receive huge discounts.
>>
>> The same goes for GNU/Linux by the way. Microsoft can't charge for Windows
>> in most of the world because there *is* choice. Free software is a huge
>> pain to Microsoft finances (it's probably deep in fraud BTW). This helps
>> the consumer.
>>
>
> Also don't forget companies are now beginning to integrate the Open Office
> suit into report production and extending the markets in ways never possible
> with micoshaft products.
>
> So you want your software to produce a neatly written book and report
> for a lab test - do you do micoshaft and run the risk of being sued
> by micoshaft or do you go open source and Open Office to create
> the report in neatly bound book form as an ODF international standards
> compliant document with photos, diagrams, graphs and projections?
>
> I prefer the latter than look through reams of 'listing paper'
> and the only commercially relevant solution is Open Office.
Don't forget that OOo is downloaded almost half a billion times per year. That
does not include the many preloads or multiple deployments from a single
download. Again there's this issue of counting usage of Free software. OOo
isn't connecting to a remote server for registration (same with GNU/Linux).
- --
~~ Best of wishes
Roy S. Schestowitz | "Stand for nothing and you will fall for anything"
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