Re: [marketing] OpenOffice is dead

2010-05-13 Thread Ian
On Thu, 2010-05-13 at 18:18 -0500, Alexandro Colorado wrote: > On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Varun Mittal wrote: > > > Hi guys > > > > Have a look at www.docs.com Microsoft attempt to take on GDocs. > > > > Maybe Oracle can also some day feel like taking OO to online version... > > > > M

Re: [marketing] OpenOffice is dead

2010-05-13 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Varun Mittal wrote: > Hi guys > > Have a look at www.docs.com Microsoft attempt to take on GDocs. > > Maybe Oracle can also some day feel like taking OO to online version... > Maybe you want to email larry ellison then... > > On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 6:02 P

Re: [marketing] OpenOffice is dead

2010-05-13 Thread Varun Mittal
Hi guys Have a look at www.docs.com Microsoft attempt to take on GDocs. Maybe Oracle can also some day feel like taking OO to online version... On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 6:02 PM, Peter Junge wrote: > Personally, I would classify this somewhere between a hardly relevant > personal opinion a

Re: [marketing] OpenOffice is dead

2010-05-13 Thread Peter Junge
Personally, I would classify this somewhere between a hardly relevant personal opinion and a troll attempt. Peter Gianvittorio wrote: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/education/openoffice-is-dead/3909?tag=nl.e550 [1] OpenOffice is dead As I mentioned over on the Google blog last night, I’m headed

Re: Re: [marketing] OpenOffice is dead

2010-05-13 Thread Gianvittorio
Chris, I think that asking to choose between GDocs and OpenOffice is not the right question to ask. GDocs is sitting in its own class, disruptive (cloud based and for free). The question is more why OpenOffice over MS Office. MS Office recognized that fat clients might be a thing of the past at

Re: [marketing] OpenOffice is dead

2010-05-13 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi everyone! OpenOffice.org is dead. My question: Was it alive? ;-) More seriously, when he looks at his table, he might be right. When I talked with John some time ago, he told me that we still have problems to be widely accepted in the USA. And what the guy, Christopher Dawson, talks about migh

Re: [marketing] OpenOffice is dead

2010-05-13 Thread Cor Nouws
Varun Mittal wrote (13-05-10 04:21) This guy talks of affordable office. In India an original offie license costs 18K INR and in this money you can buy a 15 Inch CRT monitor + 2.4 Ghz Processor + 1 Gb RAM + all basic hardware stuff I feel we need to wake him from his sleep How about all of

Re: [marketing] OpenOffice is dead

2010-05-12 Thread Varun Mittal
This guy talks of affordable office. In India an original offie license costs 18K INR and in this money you can buy a 15 Inch CRT monitor + 2.4 Ghz Processor + 1 Gb RAM + all basic hardware stuff I feel we need to wake him from his sleep How about all of us tweeting our responses or posting d

Re: [marketing] OpenOffice is dead

2010-05-12 Thread Eduardo Moreno
El 12/05/10 15:00, Gianvittorio escribió: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/education/openoffice-is-dead/3909?tag=nl.e550 [1] OpenOffice is dead As I mentioned over on the Google blog last night, I’m headed to the Office 2010 launch tomorrow. While Office in particular and Microsoft in general ar

Re: Re: [marketing] OpenOffice is dead

2010-05-12 Thread Ian
On Wed, 2010-05-12 at 15:51 -0500, Alexandro Colorado wrote: > On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Gianvittorio wrote: > > ... and I agree with all of you ... now the question is: "should we > > tell the journalist as well?" or "should we ignore the journalist?" or > > "put out an official response

Re: Re: [marketing] OpenOffice is dead

2010-05-12 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Gianvittorio wrote: >  ... and I agree with all of you ... now the question is: "should we > tell the journalist as well?" or "should we ignore the journalist?" or > "put out an official response or a private one?" >  I just don't think we should discuss amongst us

Re: Re: [marketing] OpenOffice is dead

2010-05-12 Thread Gianvittorio
... and I agree with all of you ... now the question is: "should we tell the journalist as well?" or "should we ignore the journalist?" or "put out an official response or a private one?" I just don't think we should discuss amongst us, but involve also the ones who have lived far too long in a

Re: [marketing] OpenOffice is dead

2010-05-12 Thread Cor Nouws
Gianvittorio wrote (12-05-10 22:00) For users who don’t need Office, it’s a rare occasion that Google Docs doesn’t suffice. And yet for those who need Office, it’s rare that they’re happy with OpenOffice. Where does that leave OO.org? That is opposite to my experience: it is rare

Re: [marketing] OpenOffice is dead

2010-05-12 Thread Ian
On Wed, 2010-05-12 at 22:00 +0200, Gianvittorio wrote: > For users who don’t need Office, it’s a rare occasion that > Google Docs doesn’t suffice. I use Google's spreadsheet a lot but the WP hardly at all. I'm just as likely to put work in a Drupal page. If it needs printing I use OOo wri

[marketing] OpenOffice is dead

2010-05-12 Thread Gianvittorio
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/education/openoffice-is-dead/3909?tag=nl.e550 [1] OpenOffice is dead As I mentioned over on the Google blog last night, I’m headed to the Office 2010 launch tomorrow. While Office in particular and Microsoft in general are hardly my beats, productivity and groupware