RE: [Marketing] It's hard to beat Office king

2005-10-13 Thread Daniel Lynn
> True to some extent, but how many folks do 8-10 hours "head - down" into > Word, Excel, etc? I would guess that most users are casual, real-time, > sporadic users who need information formed or transformed for a real > world process versus a database repository. I agree. I've switched from

Re: [Marketing] It’s hard to beat Off ice king

2005-10-13 Thread Tom Taylor
True to some extent, but how many folks do 8-10 hours "head - down" into Word, Excel, etc? I would guess that most users are casual, real-time, sporadic users who need information formed or transformed for a real world process versus a database repository. Training is a non-issue. There is e

Re: [Marketing] Fox News Airs Rebuttals

2005-10-13 Thread DC Parris
On Thu, October 13, 2005 14:36, Steven Shelton wrote: > Don Parris wrote: > > > What I love is the editor's notes at the end: > > "The column _"Massachusetts Should Close Down OpenDocument"_ > that appeared on > FOXnews.com Sept. 28 identified

Re: [Marketing] Fox News Airs Rebuttals

2005-10-13 Thread Steven Shelton
Don Parris wrote: Fox News finally aired some of the e-mail rebuttals to James Prendergast's article "Massachusetts Should Shut Down OpenDocument: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,172063,00.html I didn't recognize the names, and my own e-mail didn't make the cut, but I did keep in touch w

Re: [Marketing] Re: [native-lang] Happy Birthday OpenOffice.org!

2005-10-13 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
hi, On Oct 13, 2005, at 10:13 AM, Daniel Carrera wrote: - Louis Suarez-Potts + Louis Suarez-Potts (UTC -04h00) heh. It's academic. My schedule: I just flew in from Stockholm, fly to Amsterdam Saturday, return... pause... fly to Taipei then on to Japan. Then back to Toronto for a spell

[Marketing] Re: [native-lang] Happy Birthday OpenOffice.org!

2005-10-13 Thread Daniel Carrera
Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: [snip] Global Marketing Contacts Jacqueline McNally (UTC +08h00) OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Lead [EMAIL PROTECTED] +61 (8) 9474-3021 John McCreesh (UTC +01h00) OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Co-Lead [EMAIL PROTECTED] +44 (131) 523-9218 Louis Suarez-Potts OpenO

[Marketing] Fox News Airs Rebuttals

2005-10-13 Thread Don Parris
Fox News finally aired some of the e-mail rebuttals to James Prendergast's article "Massachusetts Should Shut Down OpenDocument: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,172063,00.html I didn't recognize the names, and my own e-mail didn't make the cut, but I did keep in touch with Fox News until t

[Marketing] Happy Birthday OpenOffice.org!

2005-10-13 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
All, FIVE YEARS OF OPENOFFICE.ORG, MORE TO COME 13 October, 2005 - 1400 UTC On this day, five years ago, the fledgling OpenOffice.org community provided the first public access to the source code donated from StarOffice by Sun Microsystems. The OpenOffice.org community had recently been formed,

[Marketing] Kansai Open Source 2005 in Japan

2005-10-13 Thread Takashi Nakamoto
Hi, All Kansai Open Source 2005 will be held in Osaka, Japan on Oct 28th and 29th. These conferences had been held every year to support communication between developer and users of Open Source Software in Japan especially for those who live in Kansai region (including Kyoto and Osaka as you know)