I'd just like to note, that the Municipiality of Munich is using OpenOffice.org on 18.000 clients. Not exactly small business.
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 9:01 PM, Robert Derman <robert.der...@pressenter.com> wrote: > donald_harbi...@us.ibm.com wrote: >> >> 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. >> > > My take is that LibreOffice like OpenOffice is an office suite chosen > primarily by home users, novelists and other self employed writers, > academics, very small businesses, and general fans of open source. > > Big corporations never even consider using such products because of a lack > of certain kinds of refinements. The lack of integration with MS email > products is an absolute deal breaker in many cases, as is the lack on an > adequate spell check dictionary, a good presentation program, and a few > other items. To most large businesses the price of MS-Office products is > insignificant compared to the inconvenience to them of doing without some of > its features. > > I used OpenOffice, and now use LibreOffice (Writer only, I have no need > whatsoever for a spreadsheet etc.) because I just don't like Word. There > are a few things I would really like to see improved and/or changed about > Writer, but it still is the best word processor around, at least for the > needs of someone like me. > > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
