On Sat, 2005-10-22 at 10:51 -0400, Chad Smith wrote: > > > On 10/22/05, Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Most > of the reputable research seems to indicate that MSO 2003 is a > small > proportion of the overall office installed base. Broadly > similar to the > estimates for OOo users. > > Poisoning the well, much? > > "Most *reputable* research"? So any research that disagrees with you > is disreputable, huh?
I'm looking at the main companies - IDC, Forresters, Gartner. They are professional research organisations with their businesses relying on getting these things right. There is striking agreement among them. If you are disagreeing with them its difficult to understand your motives for doing so. Even Microsoft use these people. They pay them to do research for them so if there was going to be some vested interest in bias it would be far more likely to be to the company that pays their invoices. > Even if you are correct. You're compairing 5 years worth of versions > of an office suite, on multiple operating systems to one, 2-year-old, > one OS version of another. Try comparing Office 2000, XP, 2001, 2003, > and 2004 to OOo. (2001 and 2004 are on Mac.) > > What you suggest is not a fair compairson. The comparison I suggest > would be far more accurate. Sigh. Its impossible to reason with you Chad. The purpose of the comparison is what matters. As I keep saying and you keep failing to grasp, rates of take up are what is important for the future not the legacy installation of the past. Ask Daniel for a maths lesson, I'm obviously not the teacher I used to be, he might be able to do better. Ask MS if they care if someone is still using Office 97. They only really care about the people buying new product and their only goal with legacy users is to get them to buy an upgrade. That's the business bottom line. OOo doesn't have that constraint. We don't have to make new sales to stay in business, we even make it easy for people who want to stick with OOo 1.x. But broadly the number of OOo users world wide, according to the independent (some would say in MS's pocket) researchers is similar to the number of OOo2003 users. That is significant because if that is the situation at the launch of MSO12 and OOo continues to grow at current rates it could well be that MSO12 never gets more users than OOo - all the OOo users can upgrade for free so the siginificant comparison is them and the customers actually buying or about to buy MSOffice12, not all the Office 97, 2000, XP, 2003 users who are not thinking of upgrades any time soon. That really would be a tipping point. BTW, have you signed the petition yet? -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMSL --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
