Re: [Marketing] Information

2006-05-11 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hello Patricio! On 2006-05-11, at 18:49 , Patricio Arenas Manterola wrote: Hello My name is Patricio Arenas, represent to TUXCENTER, a new free software study center, from Temuco, Chile in south-america. need information about How can to obtain a openoffice.org certification for make labo

Re: [Marketing] Louis in the press

2006-05-11 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi, On 2006-05-11, at 15:06 , John McCreesh wrote: "I understand that Massachusetts is under the gun to migrate, and that this might make it easier to fulfill their mandate," said Louis Suarez-Potts, community manager for OpenOffice.org. But in general, he added, "I see anything that extends th

Re: [Marketing] Draft OpenOffice.org Solutions page / Input welcome!

2006-05-11 Thread jonathon
>> Shouldn't that list also include: >> i) IME's; >> ii) Translation Tools --- both machine & human; > > Which ones come to your mind? IME's Indic Transliterator --- which was created for Indus Valley Script input into OOo. [It has changed names, since it was first released. I don't remember

[Marketing] Information

2006-05-11 Thread Patricio Arenas Manterola
Hello My name is Patricio Arenas, represent to TUXCENTER, a new free software study center, from Temuco, Chile in south-america. need information about How can to obtain a openoffice.org certification for make laboral capacitation in our country. We have so much people want to learn openoffice.or

[Marketing] Question about the use of open office

2006-05-11 Thread Carlos Meyer
Dear ladies and Gentlemen, I am creating a software application that will be sold for a minimal amount focus on the needs of students. In order to increase the functionality of this program, I am very interested in bundling your portable open office.org 2.0.2 program to my application. I u

[Marketing] Louis in the press

2006-05-11 Thread John McCreesh
"I understand that Massachusetts is under the gun to migrate, and that this might make it easier to fulfill their mandate," said Louis Suarez-Potts, community manager for OpenOffice.org. But in general, he added, "I see anything that extends the life of Microsoft Office as problematic." http://www

Re: [Marketing] Clients speaking up against strongarm sales

2006-05-11 Thread John McCreesh
On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 03:49 -0400, Lars D. Noodén wrote: > While it's not news that MS has been strongarming its customers, it is > news that more are going public about it and that MS seems to be more > clummsy (desperate) about it: > > http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?comma

[Marketing] Re: Re: Jacqueline in the news

2006-05-11 Thread Andrew Brown
Louis Suarez-Potts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:2B18AA95-2320-4402- [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > Andrew are you just asking for a flame war? :-) > No. Sorry. It was momentary exasperation at what I thought was sloppy journalism. I still think it is, but I don't want to start any more flames.

Re: [Marketing] Publicity strategy

2006-05-11 Thread Ian Lynch
On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 13:38 +0200, Charles-H. Schulz wrote: > Hello, > > I agree with Jacqueline here. While I believe that the theory according > to which ODF, if implemented inside MS Office, would help the adoption > of OOo, is tempting, it is jut not what I hear from customers, members > o

[Marketing] Clients speaking up against strongarm sales

2006-05-11 Thread Lars D . Noodén
While it's not news that MS has been strongarming its customers, it is news that more are going public about it and that MS seems to be more clummsy (desperate) about it: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=86 One concern is that sites