[ubuntu-marketing] Tesco supermarket software

2006-10-02 Thread Matthew Revell
Apologies for my absence recently. Day job has been mad busy. I'm
getting ready to leave my current job, so should be back here
regularly soon.

Tesco - major UK/European supermarket - is rebadging software from
Formjet (http://www.formjet.co.uk/500-products.htm).

BBC has a story here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/5396488.stm

Quite apart from questions of whether people will buy this, rather
than carry on pirating MS Office, perhaps there's an opportunity for
Ubuntu and OpenOffice with other supermarkets.

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Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Tesco supermarket software

2006-10-02 Thread alan c
Matthew Revell wrote:
 Apologies for my absence recently. Day job has been mad busy. I'm
 getting ready to leave my current job, so should be back here
 regularly soon.
 
 Tesco - major UK/European supermarket - is rebadging software from
 Formjet (http://www.formjet.co.uk/500-products.htm).
 
 BBC has a story here:
 
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/5396488.stm
 
 Quite apart from questions of whether people will buy this, rather
 than carry on pirating MS Office, perhaps there's an opportunity for
 Ubuntu and OpenOffice with other supermarkets.
 

It also suggests that since the tesco software will be for windows, it
means that such decisions come from a culture which does not recognise
that alternatives to windows exist, or are not taken seriously.

Interesting that even the obvious open source possibilities such as
Open Office are not mentioned. Tesco could easily rebrand this as open
source if they wished, or just host some *freedom toasters*
occasionally - get a lot of local publicity too with something like that.

Does anyone have contact with tescos?
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