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Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 16:31:32 -0800 (PST)
From: Terry <terauck-aoomark@yahoo.com.au>
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Subject: Re: OpenOffice promotion tips
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I don't get the metaphor but never mind that.=A0 My observations are based =
on several years of tracking forum posts and working in business environmen=
ts.=0A=0A1.=A0 In my day (and I know things may have changed), most documen=
ts dispatched by an organisation were (are) in hard copy form,=A0 Bureaucra=
cy still reigns supreme, so I doubt that much has changed in that respect.=
=A0 I know that the paper war I experience is as active as ever.=A0 Format =
compatibility is not required for documents which will be printed before di=
spatch.=0A=0A2.=A0 Many documents are produced in an organisation for use w=
ithin an organisation.=A0 Compatibility with other formats is not required =
for that.=0A=0A=0A3.=A0 Many individuals who require compatibility do so in=
 order to work with their employer's documents.=A0 If their employer uses t=
he open document format so will they.=0A=0A4.=A0 Organisations raising issu=
es on forums have, more often than not, been obliged to use other software =
to gain the feature they need.=A0 One issue which has surfaced a few times =
has been the difficulty of enabling editing by more than one user at a time=
.=A0 A recent one concerned the lack of security for temporary files create=
d by the software.=0A=0A5.=A0 The article cited refers to collaboration via=
 the web.=A0 If MSFT and Google see that as a market worth providing for, w=
e could pay it some attention.=0A=0ATerry=0A=0A=0A=0A----- Original Message=
 -----=0A> From: Dennis E. Hamilton <dennis.hamilton@acm.org>=0A> To: ooo-m=
arketing@incubator.apache.org=0A> Cc: =0A> Sent: Saturday, 3 March 2012 6:1=
1 AM=0A> Subject: RE: Re: Re: OpenOffice promotion tips=0A> =0A>T he proble=
m will be turning the puffery about "compatible with Microsoft =0A> Office =
formats" into something fact-based that does not lead to folks =0A> abandon=
ing OOo after enough failed interop efforts.=A0 Also, some folks do have =
=0A> different user-experience preferences.=A0 =0A> =0A> The problem will b=
e akin to this: =0A> <http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/231294/=
office_365_vs_google_docs_showdown_feature_by_feature.html>.=A0 =0A> (See t=
he sideways reference to LibreOffice in the File Fidelity section.)=0A> =0A=
> - Dennis =0A> =0A> PS: For Firefox, the issue was who does HTML better al=
ong with features such as =0A> speed, presumed security, price and ease of =
substitution.=A0 At the moment, doing =0A> ODF better is not a compelling f=
actor.=A0 I believe price and availability (Linux, =0A> Macintosh, Windows)=
 are factors at the consumer level, and interchange fidelity =0A> is the fe=
nce around that corral.=A0 =0A> =0A> =0A> =0A> -----Original Message-----=
=0A> From: Ramon Sole [mailto:ramon.sole@opscons.com] =0A> Sent: Friday, Ma=
rch 02, 2012 02:36=0A> To: ooo-marketing@incubator.apache.org=0A> Subject: =
Re: Re: Re: OpenOffice promotion tips=0A> =0A> [ ... ]=0A> =0A> Maybe we sh=
ould position AOO as a "better" product than MS Office -and =0A> =0A> that'=
s doesn't mean more features, that's mean more suitable for the =0A> =0A> a=
verage user.=0A> =0A> [ ... ]=0A>