[libreoffice-marketing] looks like OOo based IBM Symphony wants opinion on how good it is
I received an email today. It looks like OOo based IBM Symphony wants my opinion on how good it is. Since Symphony is based on OOo's code and now OOo is now a product of the group that created Apache, it may be that the next OOo will be coming out soon, or IBM did not wait and just did their own updating. Maybe they decided to take some of LO's coding instead of OOo's? I could be wrong, but why else would I get an email after all this time asking me how I like Symphony? Still, I am a LibreOffice user and do not think I will switch in the foreseeable future, unless the programmers of LO goes on strike or something. Oh wait, the cannot strike since they are all volunteers and dedicated volunteers never would do anything like striking. They would just make a new fork. I doubt that would happen with the way the people who are in control are so positive and want to help the programmers, marketers, and users as much as possible, unlike some open-source groups I have dealt with. So, maybe someone might want to look at Symphony and see what they have to offer. Then we can have information about OOo and Symphony compared to LibreOffice. That way we can say how much better LO is and have proof based upon the other package's performance info. I still think we need a check list chart comparing LO with all of the other open-source office suites, plus MS Office. That way the marketers can have the info in the style that people are use to. Most package web sites have check lists showing what each version has compared to the others that they offer. MSO has one for its product line of office suites. It would be nice to see one created and maintained for LibreOffice. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@global.libreoffice.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.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] looks like OOo based IBM Symphony wants opinion on how good it is
I still think we need a check list chart comparing LO with all of the other open-source office suites, plus MS Office. I'd include Google Docs in that since it is getting more and more use, especially the spreadsheet because of the convenience of collaboration. -- Ian Ofqual Accredited IT Qualifications (The Schools ITQ) www.theINGOTs.org +44 (0)1827 305940 The Learning Machine Limited, Reg Office, 36 Ashby Road, Tamworth, Staffordshire, B79 8AQ. Reg No: 05560797, Registered in England and Wales. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@global.libreoffice.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.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
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Re: [libreoffice-marketing] looks like OOo based IBM Symphony wants opinion on how good it is
Hi :) Perhaps http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_office_suites#Comparison_of_general_and_technical_information Regards from Tom :) --- On Tue, 15/11/11, Ian Lynch ianrly...@gmail.com wrote: From: Ian Lynch ianrly...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] looks like OOo based IBM Symphony wants opinion on how good it is To: marketing@global.libreoffice.org Date: Tuesday, 15 November, 2011, 14:25 I still think we need a check list chart comparing LO with all of the other open-source office suites, plus MS Office. I'd include Google Docs in that since it is getting more and more use, especially the spreadsheet because of the convenience of collaboration. -- Ian Ofqual Accredited IT Qualifications (The Schools ITQ) www.theINGOTs.org +44 (0)1827 305940 The Learning Machine Limited, Reg Office, 36 Ashby Road, Tamworth, Staffordshire, B79 8AQ. Reg No: 05560797, Registered in England and Wales. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@global.libreoffice.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.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@global.libreoffice.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.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] looks like OOo based IBM Symphony wants opinion on how good it is
What I really was thinking about is a more detailed comparison list. This list would have things like read/write .docx files able to use JPEG 2000 image files edits PDF files list of popular formal types list of transition effects for Impress vs PowerPoint and things like that for each module of LO vs MSO and other office packages. Give details of the capabilities of LO and what it is comparing to. The lists in the link below is not detailed enough. Also it states there is not image viewer for LO. I thought Draw was a viewer and editor. It is nice to have some simple package comparisons, but more and more users are concerned with specific details about it LO or any other free package can do the specific type of work they need to do. That include file types for read/writing, importing of various image files, formulas and macros, etc., etc.. This list would show that LO exports to PDF directly, which MSO did not do the last time I used it. The idea of cross platform use - Windows, Mac, Linux OSs - is nice, but since more people will be concerned with Windows-only operation, it needs lists of operation functions, and other things that is needed by their day to day work needs. Specifics. The linked list is a start, but having a side by side function comparison between Writer and Word, Calc and Excel, etc., is needed. On 11/15/2011 05:36 PM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Perhaps http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_office_suites#Comparison_of_general_and_technical_information Regards from Tom :) --- On Tue, 15/11/11, Ian Lynchianrly...@gmail.com wrote: From: Ian Lynchianrly...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] looks like OOo based IBM Symphony wants opinion on how good it is To: marketing@global.libreoffice.org Date: Tuesday, 15 November, 2011, 14:25 I still think we need a check list chart comparing LO with all of the other open-source office suites, plus MS Office. I'd include Google Docs in that since it is getting more and more use, especially the spreadsheet because of the convenience of collaboration. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@global.libreoffice.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.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] looks like OOo based IBM Symphony wants opinion on how good it is
Hi :) It is possible to use the existing resource and just add to it. WIki's are fairly easy to edit although tables are a bit weird. Regards from Tom :) --- On Tue, 15/11/11, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions webmas...@krackedpress.com wrote: From: webmaster for Kracked Press Productions webmas...@krackedpress.com Subject: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] looks like OOo based IBM Symphony wants opinion on how good it is To: marketing@global.libreoffice.org Date: Tuesday, 15 November, 2011, 23:09 What I really was thinking about is a more detailed comparison list. This list would have things like read/write .docx files able to use JPEG 2000 image files edits PDF files list of popular formal types list of transition effects for Impress vs PowerPoint and things like that for each module of LO vs MSO and other office packages. Give details of the capabilities of LO and what it is comparing to. The lists in the link below is not detailed enough. Also it states there is not image viewer for LO. I thought Draw was a viewer and editor. It is nice to have some simple package comparisons, but more and more users are concerned with specific details about it LO or any other free package can do the specific type of work they need to do. That include file types for read/writing, importing of various image files, formulas and macros, etc., etc.. This list would show that LO exports to PDF directly, which MSO did not do the last time I used it. The idea of cross platform use - Windows, Mac, Linux OSs - is nice, but since more people will be concerned with Windows-only operation, it needs lists of operation functions, and other things that is needed by their day to day work needs. Specifics. The linked list is a start, but having a side by side function comparison between Writer and Word, Calc and Excel, etc., is needed. On 11/15/2011 05:36 PM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Perhaps http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_office_suites#Comparison_of_general_and_technical_information Regards from Tom :) --- On Tue, 15/11/11, Ian Lynchianrly...@gmail.com wrote: From: Ian Lynchianrly...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] looks like OOo based IBM Symphony wants opinion on how good it is To: marketing@global.libreoffice.org Date: Tuesday, 15 November, 2011, 14:25 I still think we need a check list chart comparing LO with all of the other open-source office suites, plus MS Office. I'd include Google Docs in that since it is getting more and more use, especially the spreadsheet because of the convenience of collaboration. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@global.libreoffice.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.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@global.libreoffice.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.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] looks like OOo based IBM Symphony wants opinion on how good it is
Yes Tables in Wiki's are weird. The problem for me is I do not have any MSO copies to deal with. I already used my one trial of MSO-2010 to do some conversions from complex .docx files to the standard .doc files. I did this last years before LO ever came out. What we need is someone with both LO and MSO experience, and software, to fill in the check list comparisons people come up with. I do not use LO or MSO 2003 [when I had it] heavily or with business needs and business functions. I do more simple documents over complex ones. I do little with Calc or Impress, and almost no work with Draw. So I could not help with that either. We need people who use each module to their limits, or at least with a large number of common functions. I am not that type of user anymore. On 11/15/2011 06:12 PM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) It is possible to use the existing resource and just add to it. WIki's are fairly easy to edit although tables are a bit weird. Regards from Tom :) --- On Tue, 15/11/11, webmaster for Kracked Press Productionswebmas...@krackedpress.com wrote: From: webmaster for Kracked Press Productionswebmas...@krackedpress.com Subject: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] looks like OOo based IBM Symphony wants opinion on how good it is To: marketing@global.libreoffice.org Date: Tuesday, 15 November, 2011, 23:09 What I really was thinking about is a more detailed comparison list. This list would have things like read/write .docx files able to use JPEG 2000 image files edits PDF files list of popular formal types list of transition effects for Impress vs PowerPoint and things like that for each module of LO vs MSO and other office packages. Give details of the capabilities of LO and what it is comparing to. The lists in the link below is not detailed enough. Also it states there is not image viewer for LO. I thought Draw was a viewer and editor. It is nice to have some simple package comparisons, but more and more users are concerned with specific details about it LO or any other free package can do the specific type of work they need to do. That include file types for read/writing, importing of various image files, formulas and macros, etc., etc.. This list would show that LO exports to PDF directly, which MSO did not do the last time I used it. The idea of cross platform use - Windows, Mac, Linux OSs - is nice, but since more people will be concerned with Windows-only operation, it needs lists of operation functions, and other things that is needed by their day to day work needs. Specifics. The linked list is a start, but having a side by side function comparison between Writer and Word, Calc and Excel, etc., is needed. On 11/15/2011 05:36 PM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Perhaps http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_office_suites#Comparison_of_general_and_technical_information Regards from Tom :) --- On Tue, 15/11/11, Ian Lynchianrly...@gmail.com wrote: From: Ian Lynchianrly...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] looks like OOo based IBM Symphony wants opinion on how good it is To: marketing@global.libreoffice.org Date: Tuesday, 15 November, 2011, 14:25 I still think we need a check list chart comparing LO with all of the other open-source office suites, plus MS Office. I'd include Google Docs in that since it is getting more and more use, especially the spreadsheet because of the convenience of collaboration. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@global.libreoffice.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.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@global.libreoffice.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.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
