Erwin's StarOffice Tango

Erwin's StarOffice Tango
Erwin Tenhumberg's Insights into Open Source and Dancing
... or why Open Competition matters

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Freitag Oktober 07, 2005

JDJ Exclusive: First "Post-Google" Q&A
"Our press release mentioned OpenOffice. In the end OpenOffice adoption creates opportunity for StarOffice so I believe benefits to OpenOffice will translate to StarOffice."
The full interview can be found here.
( Okt 07 2005, 01:59:44 PM CEST ) Permalink

OpenDocument Submitted to ISO
"OASIS has submitted the OpenDocument Format OASIS Standard to the ISO/IEC JTC1 (International Organization for Standardization International Electrotechnical Commission's Joint Technical Committee) for further approval as a de jure standard."

Found here.
( Okt 07 2005, 01:01:03 PM CEST ) Permalink

About 60% haven't chosen their office suite, yet!
I just took a look at some statistics (see this, this, this, and this).

If you combine the population numbers with the PCs-per-country numbers you will see that about 75% of the people in the US use a PC. However, on a global scale, less than 15% seem to have access to a PC. Thus, if the US people/PC ratio (~75%) is more or less the possible maximum, about 60% of the global population haven't chosen their operating system and their office suite, yet.

All these people do not have to deal with any office legacy like old documents or macros. They simply will start from scratch. They will pick the tools that they can afford and that meet their requirements. It will be interesting to see what tools these people will choose!
( Okt 07 2005, 11:43:10 AM CEST ) Permalink