Hello Higuchi-San, thank you a lot for your translation! I will post this news report asap.
Best Regards, Charles. On Sun, 2005-05-15 at 23:09 +0900, Takaaki Higuchi wrote: > ããããããäãèãããåæãããèãããããããããæåããååã > ããããããããããããããããããããã > > æå > > ------- > 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 ï14.0% > * Good enough to substitute Microsoft Office in business purpose ï62.6% > * Cannot substitute Microsoft Office in business purpose because of lacks of > functionalities, reliabilities and so on ï6.2% > * Cannot substitute Microsoft Office in business purpose because of > compatibilities with existing documents and transition costs ï12.6% > * Misc. ï4.8% > > 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) > > ------- > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
