Freitag Oktober 21, 2005
22% by 2010 (OSS desktop productivity)
"By 2010, 22 percent of companies surveyed by Saugatuck Technology expect their core desktop productivity programs will be open-source software. The survey polled more than 100 senior executives, about 80 percent in the United States and the rest from other parts of the world."
The full article can be found here.
( Okt 21 2005, 08:02:02 PM CEST )
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"Massachusetts' Microsoft Office Alternatives"
Found here.
( Okt 21 2005, 07:59:54 PM CEST )
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"OpenOffice Leader John McCreesh Discusses Version 2.0"
"The OpenOffice.org community numbers thousands of members, who have contributed in a variety of ways to the new version - reporting bugs, requesting enhancements, developing, testing, translating, documenting,
providing user support, artwork, marketing... The community also benefits from support from a number of commercial organizations, including Novell, RedHat, Intel, and most notably our founder Sun Microsystems."
The full interview can be found here.
( Okt 21 2005, 07:58:31 PM CEST )
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"Why OpenOffice.org 2.0 Is Your Best Choice"
"Let me put it this way: Over the last four months, I've flipped hundreds of documents and spreadsheets from Microsoft Office to OpenOffice.org and back again, and I haven't lost a font or a formula yet.
The new OpenOffice.org also boasts an interface that's much more like the Microsoft Office interface. Unlike Microsoft Office, though, you can run it on Windows, Linux or Solaris and, regardless of platform, it looks and works the same."
The full article can be found here.
( Okt 21 2005, 05:55:21 PM CEST )
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More than 12,000 OpenOffice.org User Survey Participants
The OpenOffice.org 2.0 launch has turned out to be an amazing success! Again, congratulations to everybody who helped to make this release happen and to get the word out!
From my very personal (obviously limited) point of view, special thanks to Jacqueline McNally, Craig Adams, Louis Suarez-Potts, Stefan Taxhet, Martin Hollmichel, and Cristian Driga who spent a lot of time on the web pages (e.g. press kit and download pages), the announcement text, the actual bits, as well as the updated user survey!
It is always difficult to mention names, because one always forgets some important names. I'm sure I have forgotten key names this time as well! I'm very sorry! Nevertheless, I want to make sure that people who did a lot of work get some credit for it (instead of not mentioning names to be 100% politically correct).
Talking about the updated user survey, the number from the first day is just mind blowing. In about one day we counted more than 12,000 completed user surveys. Again, in just one day more than 12,000 people took the time to complete the survey! 71.2% did the survey for the very first time. 41.9% had just installed OpenOffice.org for the very first time in their life. 16.7% had been using OpenOffice.org for more than 2 years. 12.0% want to help with QA and testing, another 4.4% want to donate money, and 3.7% want to create and distribute OpenOffice.org CD's. 35.6% said that they found out about OpenOffice.org, because they read about it. To another 17.9% OpenOffice.org was recommended by someone. Most people love the PDF export, but surprisingly many people also downloaded OpenOffice.org because of its support for the OASIS standard OpenDocument!
I don't want to talk about download numbers yet, because we are currently trying to collect and analyze various server/web statistics, but the first download number estimations are also ... WOW!
Stay tuned!
( Okt 21 2005, 04:17:39 PM CEST )
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OpenOffice.org 2.0 on the Google News Home Page!
Louis Suarez-Potts just told me on IM. Open http://news.google.com/ and scroll a bit down. The OpenOffice.org 2.0 announcement is on the Google News Home Page! Wow! Great!
( Okt 21 2005, 04:15:17 PM CEST )
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Novell joined the OpenDocument TC
Great! I just found out that Novell joined the OASIS OpenDocument technical committee (TC). See this.
According to this article, Jody Goldberg used to be (or still is?) the Gnumeric project leader.
I'm wondering when the next big industry player will join!?
( Okt 21 2005, 03:52:03 PM CEST )
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