Hello Alessandro,
On 2006-04-13, at 04:46 , Alessandro Weber wrote:
dear louis,
we launched openindexer 2, a free utility which do fulltext search
on opendocument files, backup, restore and automatic electronic
archiving on cd/dvd including the search engine, transforming the
cd/dvd in a mobile archive or encyclopedia of your own documents.
openindexer 2 allows network search and is installed as a service
which updates the search engine in real time. this allows
openindexer 2 to be used also in background in SMEs.
openindexer is technology developed only for the opendocument
comunity. it doesn't and won't support microsoft file formats.
furthermore it offers functions which are not available for
microsoft file formats for free. neither google desktop reaches the
functionality of openindexer. in constrast to google, with
openindexer you doesn't risk that anybody but you will get in touch
with your information.
actually, our objective is to give the maximum of benefit in file
management only to opendocument files. in this way we invite people
to start to save in ODF. in our eyes it is unlucky to see increase
the number of installations of OOo which exclusively save in
microsoft file format risking data loss. if the DOC file doesn't
correspond with the original file people see OOo as bad office
application. this wrong impression can completely been solved by
saving in ODF.
openindexer is an argument more for users to save in ODF. google
desktop isn't as it supports microsoft file formats.
as openoffice.org got the same philosophy than openindexer, we like
to ask you if you are able to support openindexer. after the launch
of openindexer 1one year ago you contacted the OOo marketing but we
never get a feedback from them. meanwhile we introduced openindexer
to all italian IT magazines and are now in contact with the german
editors (computer bild, c't, ...). it would be helpful to get
assistence from the openoffice.org comunity in order to reach the
world press in a more simple way.
we launched openindexer 2 days ago and got downloads from all over
the world, canada, australia, hong kong, denmark, uk, germany, ....
we got downloads from hospitals, universities. the verbal feedback
on the software is 100% positive and we would like to share this
benefit with the openoffice.org comunity.
can you help us?
Yes.
I think you need to communicate this to the ODF Alliance, which I
would hope could start listing apps. that work particularly with the
ODF. I'm cc'ing Simon Phipps of the Alliance (I'm a member,
representing OOo).
Simon: would it make sense to list this and other apps somewhere in
the ODF Alliance urls?
Further, I think that OOo should have a wiki (or page) listing apps
that work with it, extend it, and so on. The problem is that there
is little interest in the community for keeping such a page up to date.
So, what I can do is send your press release to our newsletter and
see if it makes sense for us to disseminate it, as a further addition
to the wealth of ODF/OOo.
Newsletter: perhaps we can include OpenIndexer in the category of new
apps extending OOo? or ODF news?
ciao,
Louis
thank you in advance for your kind answer,
alessandro
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