とりあえず、何も考えずに原文のまま訳したつもりですが、意図した内容に
なっているのかどうかよくわからんです、はい
樋口
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ja-N-L Monthly Report:May-2005
This report sorts out on activities of OOo Japanese Native-Lang and OOo/FOSS
related news in Japan. This is not an official news letter, but a kind of note.
The contents would be freely distributed and
re-used for a source of other announcements or news letters.
Written by Yutaka Kachi([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Translated by Takaaki Higuchi([EMAIL PROTECTED])
- OpenOffice.org deployments in public sectors
There is a fact that the de-facto standard format of documents is Microsoft
Office
even if in public sectors in Japan. To avoid this specific vendor lock-in,
several efforts have been started.
At IPA(Information-technology Promotion Agency,
http://www.ipa.go.jp/index-e.html),
which is an extra-government organization of METI(Ministry of Economy, Trade
and
Industry), materials of public subscriptions are offered in OpenOffice.org 1.1
sxw
format in addition to Microsoft Word and Adobe PDF format.
METI Hokkaido(Organization of the Hokkaido Bureau of Economy, Trade and
Industry,
http://www.hkd.meti.go.jp/index_e.htm) also provides materials for public
subscriptions in Word and SXW format.
OOo deployments have not been major trends in general corporate use in Japan.
However, such OOo deployments in public sectors might be accelerate OOo
deployments in private sector, and I hope in-expensive deployment cost will get
more attentions on OOo.
- Microsoft Japan held a seminar focused on OpenOffice.org competitive analisys
On April 12th, Microsoft Japan held a press briefing, which focused on
cosiderations on Office software and desktop OS values. While I had not
attended
this seminar, but many IT webzines reported that was competitive analisys on
merits of Microsoft Office in comparison with OpenOffice.org.
http://www.atmarkit.co.jp/news/200504/13/ms.html
http://pcweb.mycom.co.jp/news/2005/04/12/003.html
http://enterprise.watch.impress.co.jp/cda/topic/2005/04/12/5054.html
http://www.itmedia.co.jp/enterprise/articles/0504/13/news046.html
http://itpro.nikkeibp.co.jp/free/ITPro/OPINION/20050414/159267/
This was also picked up by Slashdot Japan.
http://slashdot.jp/article.pl?sid=05/04/13/0414220&topic=104&mode=thread
At the start of the seminar, Microsoft asked the attendees to raise hands if
they
think MS Office is expensive, and most of them did, of course.
Microsoft stated that customers have to consider risks in OpenOffice.org
transition. There are risks such as compatibility, re-usability, re-education
of
corporate users, increase of corporate support.
Microsoft wants to call these as risks, but this means Microsoft itself feels
the
risks on OpenOffice.org. To users, there is a risk that there is not a perfect
compatibility among difference versions of MS Office. There are may companies
who
have not upgraded because of incompatibilities of MS Office. Also the risk of
vendor lock-in should be considered.
NIKKEI ITPro, one of Japanese Webzines, did a questionaire, in conjunction with
this seminar report, that OOo/SS can substitute MS Office in business purpose,
to
users who have used OOo/SS, and the result was:
* Can substitute Microsoft Office in business purpose ：14.0%
* Good enough to substitute Microsoft Office in business purpose ：62.6%
* Cannot substitute Microsoft Office in business purpose because of lacks of
functionalities, reliabilities and so on ：6.2%
* Cannot substitute Microsoft Office in business purpose because of
compatibilities with existing documents and transition costs ：12.6%
* Misc. ：4.8%
http://itpro.nikkeibp.co.jp/free/ITPro/OPINION/20050502/160384/index.shtml
- Knoppix-ja continues its own evolution
You may aware of Knoppix, which is a CD bootable Linux and inlcudes OOo.
Kuniyasu Suzaki of AIST(National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and
Technology , http://www.aist.go.jp/) has developed and maintained own
extensions
in Japanese Knoppix(http://unit.aist.go.jp/itri/knoppix/index-en.html). One of
his
target is availability of the same computer environment in anywhere if there
is a
network, and no CD-ROM is required.
Knoppix-ja includes emulators like QEMU and coLinux, so it runs on Windows.
Employing this User-Mode Linux functionality, while it boots from CD, it can
modify and save configurations. HTTP-FUSE KNOPPIX enables network boot if there
is
a boot loader, which requires about 6MB includes Linux kernel and miniroot.
This
includes OOo too(http:
//unit.aist.go.jp/itri/knoppix/http-fuse/index-en.html)
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