Pedro,
My mistake then. I didn't read deeply enough into the thread.
I still submit that none of these open source projects and their products
compete in the sense of meaningful market share. With MS-Office dominating
so thoroughly the only thing that makes sense is to build a shared sense
of opportunity, rather than bickering incessantly.
IBM Docs will be a component of the IBM Connections offering later this
year. I don't know how that looks like a competitor to LibreOffice. Lotus
Symphony was primarily offered to Lotus Notes customers in large
enterprise as a no charge entitlement. Integrated in this fashion, it
offers customers an alternative to MS-Office if they choose. We have no
evidence that these customers consider LibreOffice, so I don't think it's
fair to say we are in a sort of competition.
What matters most is to help end users understand the benefits of ODF as
their file format, and improve interoperability with the dominance of
MS-Office formats.
I hope you can at least agree on this last point, if not the others.
Regards,
/don
Donald Harbison
Program Director
IBM Open Document Format Initiative
Software Group
Mobile: +1-978-761-0116
From: Pedro <pedl...@gmail.com>
To: discuss@documentfoundation.org,
Date: 02/07/2012 01:38 PM
Subject: [tdf-discuss] Re: IBM is alive ;)
Hi donald,
donald_harbison wrote
>
> What is this talk about a competitor product? The Apache OpenOffice
> project does not seek to compete with LibreOffice.
>
*I* mentioned a competitor to LibreOffice (not Italo) and was referring to
IBM Lotus Symphony and the web service IBM Docs.
Quoting my email to answer Italo doesn't make sense because I wasn't
attacking Apache or even IBM ("IMO some IBM employees bashing TDF on their
blogs and on public mailing lists and forums, does not make it a corporate
decision ;)")
I think you two should exchange private email ;)
Regards,
Pedro
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