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Log: Planet run at Sat Nov 1 06:00:14 GMT 2008 File Changes: Directory: /marketing/www/planet/ ================================= File [changed]: atom.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/atom.xml?r1=1.1108&r2=1.1109 Delta lines: +36 -35 --------------------- --- atom.xml 2008-11-01 00:01:02+0000 1.1108 +++ atom.xml 2008-11-01 06:00:35+0000 1.1109 @@ -5,10 +5,35 @@ <link rel="self" href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/atom.xml"/> <link href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/"/> <id>http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/atom.xml</id> - <updated>2008-11-01T00:00:58+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-11-01T06:00:31+00:00</updated> <generator uri="http://www.planetplanet.org/";>Planet/2.0 +http://www.planetplanet.org</generator> <entry xml:lang="en"> + <title type="html">Open Source Desktops Have Lowest Maintenance Cost</title> + <link href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/901"/> + <id>http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=901</id> + <updated>2008-10-31T15:59:59+00:00</updated> + <content type="html"><p>That open source is more cost effective in initial deployment and ongoing maintenance is not surprising to anyone who uses open source software, despite the premise being attacked by Microsoft (and some people apparently do believe MS&#8217; marketing).</p> +<p>The experience of the German Foreign Ministry is that <a href="http://www.metamorphosis.org.mk/content/view/1279/4/lang,en/">open source desktops cost less to operate and maintain than Windows and Microsoft Office-based systems</a>, reports <a href="http://www.metamorphosis.org.mk/index.php?lang=en">Metamorphosis</a>:</p> +<p>&#8220;Open Source desktops are far cheaper to maintain than proprietary desktop configurations, says Rolf Schuster, a diplomat at the German Embassy in Madrid and the former head of IT at the Foreign Ministry.&#8221;</p> +<p>This is an informed opinion, as the Ministry has been working with open source since 2001, and is currently midway through a complete migration to FOSS.</p> +<p>&#8220;The Foreign Ministry is migrating all of its 11,000 desktops to GNU/Linux and other open source applications. According to Schuster, this has drastically reduced maintenance costs in comparison with other ministries. &#8220;The Foreign Ministry is running desktops in many far away and some very difficult locations. Yet we spend only one thousand euros per desktop per year. That is far lower than other ministries, that on average spend more than 3,000 euros per desktop per year.</p> +<p>&#8220;The ministry has so far migrated almost four thousand of its desktops to GNU/Linux and expects to complete the move by the summer of 2009, Schuster said. About half of all the 230 embassies and consulates have now been switched over. &#8220;It is not without problems. It took a while to find a developer in Japan to help us with some font issues we had in OpenOffice.&#8221;</p> +<p>The groundwork of the past few years is beginning to pay off for a large number of first-movers around the world. I expect the migration trend will continue to accelerate as more and more case studies help to sway the slower adopters.</p></content> + <author> + <name>Benjamin Horst</name> + <uri>http://www.solidoffice.com</uri> + </author> + <source> + <title type="html">SolidOffice » OpenOffice.org</title> + <subtitle type="html">Home of The Tiny Guide to OpenOffice.org</subtitle> + <link rel="self" href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/category/openofficeorg/feed"/> + <id>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/category/openofficeorg/feed</id> + <updated>2008-11-01T06:00:17+00:00</updated> + </source> + </entry> + + <entry xml:lang="en"> <title type="html">There at last - 2.4.2</title> <link href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/10/30/there-at-last-242/"/> <id>http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=599</id> @@ -47,7 +72,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">Home of The Tiny Guide to OpenOffice.org</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/category/openofficeorg/feed"/> <id>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/category/openofficeorg/feed</id> - <updated>2008-10-30T18:00:20+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-11-01T06:00:17+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -91,7 +116,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">Home of The Tiny Guide to OpenOffice.org</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/category/openofficeorg/feed"/> <id>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/category/openofficeorg/feed</id> - <updated>2008-10-30T18:00:20+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-11-01T06:00:17+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -140,7 +165,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">A weblog by Charles-H. Schulz.</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/category/ooo-postings/feed"/> <id>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/category/ooo-postings/feed</id> - <updated>2008-10-30T18:26:51+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-11-01T06:00:16+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -161,7 +186,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">Home of The Tiny Guide to OpenOffice.org</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/category/openofficeorg/feed"/> <id>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/category/openofficeorg/feed</id> - <updated>2008-10-30T18:00:20+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-11-01T06:00:17+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -182,7 +207,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">Home of The Tiny Guide to OpenOffice.org</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/category/openofficeorg/feed"/> <id>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/category/openofficeorg/feed</id> - <updated>2008-10-30T18:00:20+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-11-01T06:00:17+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -309,7 +334,7 @@ <title type="html">jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader</title> <link rel="self" href="http://www.google.co.uk/reader/public/atom/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast"/> <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast</id> - <updated>2008-11-01T00:00:38+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-11-01T06:00:18+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -392,7 +417,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">Mostly on OpenOffice.org, FOSS, and everything else.</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"/> <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564</id> - <updated>2008-10-31T18:00:39+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-11-01T06:00:20+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -442,7 +467,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">Mostly on OpenOffice.org, FOSS, and everything else.</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"/> <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564</id> - <updated>2008-10-31T18:00:39+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-11-01T06:00:20+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -523,7 +548,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">A weblog by Charles-H. Schulz.</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/category/ooo-postings/feed"/> <id>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/category/ooo-postings/feed</id> - <updated>2008-10-30T18:26:51+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-11-01T06:00:16+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -552,7 +577,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">Home of The Tiny Guide to OpenOffice.org</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/category/openofficeorg/feed"/> <id>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/category/openofficeorg/feed</id> - <updated>2008-10-30T18:00:20+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-11-01T06:00:17+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -583,28 +608,4 @@ </source> </entry> - <entry xml:lang="en"> - <title type="html">Year of 3 / Week of 3</title> - <link href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/10/19/year-of-3-week-of-3/"/> - <id>http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=589</id> - <updated>2008-10-19T13:16:25+00:00</updated> - <content type="html"><p>If 2008 is &#8220;The Year of 3&#8243; - the year <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/product">OpenOffice.org 3.0</a> was released - then it looks like the first week after launch will be &#8220;The Week of 3&#8243; - the week 3 million copies were downloaded from the Bouncer system:<br /> -<a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/downloads1019.png"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-590" title="Downloads" src="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/downloads1019.png" alt="The first four days" width="500" height="299" /></a><br /> -What are Bouncer figures? if you download OpenOffice.org from <a href="http://download.openoffice.org">the download page</a>, you will go via the Bouncer, and your download will be logged. These logs are the only figures we are able to quantify accurately, but they are a considerable underestimate of the actual number of downloads. For example, Linux users account for less than 10% of the downloads we record in Bouncer, as most Linux users download OpenOffice.org via their distributor rather than directly from us. Similarly some of our larger native-lang communities don&#8217;t use Bouncer.</p> -<p>Direct download is only one distribution method, and only usable if you have a broadband connection. The next option is via CD-ROM, possibly bought locally. OpenOffice.org 3.0 is also being added to cover disks for PC magazines around the world, so as time goes by, the number of on-line installs decreases, and off-line increases.</p> -<p>So how many people are already using OpenOffice.org 3.0? No-one knows. We know that the Bouncer figures underestimate the number of downloads. We know the number of downloads is considerably less than the number of installed copies. So five million users already?</p> -<p>What&#8217;s our target? well, in our <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/strategy/">Strategic Marketing Plan</a> - published in 2004 - we aimed to have <a href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Strategic_Marketing_Plan#Usage_Goals">a 40% market share by 2010</a>. That doesn&#8217;t seem as ambitious today as it did four years ago. The &#8220;Year of 3&#8243; is a notable milestone en route.</p></content> - <author> - <name>John McCreesh</name> - <uri>http://www.mealldubh.org</uri> - </author> - <source> - <title type="html">Meall Dubh » OpenOffice.org</title> - <subtitle type="html">a view from a dark hill</subtitle> - <link rel="self" href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed"/> - <id>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed</id> - <updated>2008-10-31T18:00:15+00:00</updated> - </source> - </entry> - </feed> File [changed]: downloads.gif Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/downloads.gif?rev=1.2&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup File [changed]: index.html Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/index.html?r1=1.1111&r2=1.1112 Delta lines: +22 -21 --------------------- --- index.html 2008-11-01 00:01:03+0000 1.1111 +++ index.html 2008-11-01 06:00:36+0000 1.1112 @@ -37,8 +37,29 @@ <a href="rss20.xml"><img src="rss2.gif" alt="Link to RSS 2 feed" /></a> </div> -<p><em>Bloggings on marketing topics by project members - see <a href="#disclaimer">disclaimer</a>.<br />Last updated: November 01, 2008 12:00 AM GMT</em></p> +<p><em>Bloggings on marketing topics by project members - see <a href="#disclaimer">disclaimer</a>.<br />Last updated: November 01, 2008 06:00 AM GMT</em></p> +<h2>October 31, 2008</h2> +<h3> +<a href="http://www.solidoffice.com"; title="SolidOffice » OpenOffice.org"> +Benjamin Horst</a> : +<a href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/901";> +Open Source Desktops Have Lowest Maintenance Cost</a> +</h3> +<p> +<p>That open source is more cost effective in initial deployment and ongoing maintenance is not surprising to anyone who uses open source software, despite the premise being attacked by Microsoft (and some people apparently do believe MS’ marketing).</p> +<p>The experience of the German Foreign Ministry is that <a href="http://www.metamorphosis.org.mk/content/view/1279/4/lang,en/";>open source desktops cost less to operate and maintain than Windows and Microsoft Office-based systems</a>, reports <a href="http://www.metamorphosis.org.mk/index.php?lang=en";>Metamorphosis</a>:</p> +<p>“Open Source desktops are far cheaper to maintain than proprietary desktop configurations, says Rolf Schuster, a diplomat at the German Embassy in Madrid and the former head of IT at the Foreign Ministry.”</p> +<p>This is an informed opinion, as the Ministry has been working with open source since 2001, and is currently midway through a complete migration to FOSS.</p> +<p>“The Foreign Ministry is migrating all of its 11,000 desktops to GNU/Linux and other open source applications. According to Schuster, this has drastically reduced maintenance costs in comparison with other ministries. “The Foreign Ministry is running desktops in many far away and some very difficult locations. Yet we spend only one thousand euros per desktop per year. That is far lower than other ministries, that on average spend more than 3,000 euros per desktop per year.</p> +<p>“The ministry has so far migrated almost four thousand of its desktops to GNU/Linux and expects to complete the move by the summer of 2009, Schuster said. About half of all the 230 embassies and consulates have now been switched over. “It is not without problems. It took a while to find a developer in Japan to help us with some font issues we had in OpenOffice.”</p> +<p>The groundwork of the past few years is beginning to pay off for a large number of first-movers around the world. I expect the migration trend will continue to accelerate as more and more case studies help to sway the slower adopters.</p></p> +<p> +<em><a href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/901";>by Benjamin Horst at October 31, 2008 03:59 PM GMT</a></em> +</p> +<br /> +<hr /> +<br /> <h2>October 30, 2008</h2> <h3> <a href="http://www.mealldubh.org"; title="Meall Dubh » OpenOffice.org"> @@ -527,26 +548,6 @@ <br /> <hr /> <br /> -<h2>October 19, 2008</h2> -<h3> -<a href="http://www.mealldubh.org"; title="Meall Dubh » OpenOffice.org"> -John McCreesh</a> : -<a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/10/19/year-of-3-week-of-3/";> -Year of 3 / Week of 3</a> -</h3> -<p> -<p>If 2008 is “The Year of 3″ - the year <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/product";>OpenOffice.org 3.0</a> was released - then it looks like the first week after launch will be “The Week of 3″ - the week 3 million copies were downloaded from the Bouncer system:<br /> -<a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/downloads1019.png";><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-590" title="Downloads" src="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/downloads1019.png"; alt="The first four days" width="500" height="299" /></a><br /> -What are Bouncer figures? if you download OpenOffice.org from <a href="http://download.openoffice.org";>the download page</a>, you will go via the Bouncer, and your download will be logged. These logs are the only figures we are able to quantify accurately, but they are a considerable underestimate of the actual number of downloads. For example, Linux users account for less than 10% of the downloads we record in Bouncer, as most Linux users download OpenOffice.org via their distributor rather than directly from us. Similarly some of our larger native-lang communities don’t use Bouncer.</p> -<p>Direct download is only one distribution method, and only usable if you have a broadband connection. The next option is via CD-ROM, possibly bought locally. OpenOffice.org 3.0 is also being added to cover disks for PC magazines around the world, so as time goes by, the number of on-line installs decreases, and off-line increases.</p> -<p>So how many people are already using OpenOffice.org 3.0? No-one knows. We know that the Bouncer figures underestimate the number of downloads. We know the number of downloads is considerably less than the number of installed copies. So five million users already?</p> -<p>What’s our target? well, in our <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/strategy/";>Strategic Marketing Plan</a> - published in 2004 - we aimed to have <a href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Strategic_Marketing_Plan#Usage_Goals";>a 40% market share by 2010</a>. That doesn’t seem as ambitious today as it did four years ago. The “Year of 3″ is a notable milestone en route.</p></p> -<p> -<em><a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/10/19/year-of-3-week-of-3/";>by John at October 19, 2008 01:16 PM GMT</a></em> -</p> -<br /> -<hr /> -<br /> <a id="disclaimer" name="disclaimer"></a> <p><em>Disclaimer: all views expressed on this page are those of the individual contributors, and may not reflect the views of the File [changed]: opml.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/opml.xml?r1=1.1108&r2=1.1109 Delta lines: +1 -1 ------------------- --- opml.xml 2008-11-01 00:01:03+0000 1.1108 +++ opml.xml 2008-11-01 06:00:36+0000 1.1109 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ <opml version="1.1"> <head> <title>Marketing Planet</title> - <dateModified>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 00:00:58 +0000</dateModified> + <dateModified>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 06:00:31 +0000</dateModified> <ownerName>Marketing Project</ownerName> <ownerEmail>[EMAIL PROTECTED]</ownerEmail> </head> File [changed]: rss10.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/rss10.xml?r1=1.508&r2=1.509 Delta lines: +13 -12 --------------------- --- rss10.xml 2008-10-31 00:00:59+0000 1.508 +++ rss10.xml 2008-11-01 06:00:36+0000 1.509 @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ <items> <rdf:Seq> + <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=901"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=599"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=900"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=598"; /> @@ -32,11 +33,22 @@ <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/10/20/the-speech/"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=893"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=591"; /> - <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=589"; /> </rdf:Seq> </items> </channel> +<item rdf:about="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=901";> + <title>Benjamin Horst: Open Source Desktops Have Lowest Maintenance Cost</title> + <link>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/901</link> + <content:encoded><p>That open source is more cost effective in initial deployment and ongoing maintenance is not surprising to anyone who uses open source software, despite the premise being attacked by Microsoft (and some people apparently do believe MS&#8217; marketing).</p> +<p>The experience of the German Foreign Ministry is that <a href="http://www.metamorphosis.org.mk/content/view/1279/4/lang,en/">open source desktops cost less to operate and maintain than Windows and Microsoft Office-based systems</a>, reports <a href="http://www.metamorphosis.org.mk/index.php?lang=en">Metamorphosis</a>:</p> +<p>&#8220;Open Source desktops are far cheaper to maintain than proprietary desktop configurations, says Rolf Schuster, a diplomat at the German Embassy in Madrid and the former head of IT at the Foreign Ministry.&#8221;</p> +<p>This is an informed opinion, as the Ministry has been working with open source since 2001, and is currently midway through a complete migration to FOSS.</p> +<p>&#8220;The Foreign Ministry is migrating all of its 11,000 desktops to GNU/Linux and other open source applications. According to Schuster, this has drastically reduced maintenance costs in comparison with other ministries. &#8220;The Foreign Ministry is running desktops in many far away and some very difficult locations. Yet we spend only one thousand euros per desktop per year. That is far lower than other ministries, that on average spend more than 3,000 euros per desktop per year.</p> +<p>&#8220;The ministry has so far migrated almost four thousand of its desktops to GNU/Linux and expects to complete the move by the summer of 2009, Schuster said. About half of all the 230 embassies and consulates have now been switched over. &#8220;It is not without problems. It took a while to find a developer in Japan to help us with some font issues we had in OpenOffice.&#8221;</p> +<p>The groundwork of the past few years is beginning to pay off for a large number of first-movers around the world. I expect the migration trend will continue to accelerate as more and more case studies help to sway the slower adopters.</p></content:encoded> + <dc:date>2008-10-31T15:59:59+00:00</dc:date> +</item> <item rdf:about="http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=599";> <title>John McCreesh: There at last - 2.4.2</title> <link>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/10/30/there-at-last-242/</link> @@ -367,16 +379,5 @@ <p>If you haven&#8217;t tried OpenOffice.org 3.0 yet, here&#8217;s <a href="http://why.openoffice.org">why you should</a>, and here&#8217;s <a href="http://download.openoffice.org">where you download it</a>. It&#8217;s great software; it&#8217;s easy to use; and it&#8217;s free. Give it a try!</p></content:encoded> <dc:date>2008-10-20T08:26:32+00:00</dc:date> </item> -<item rdf:about="http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=589";> - <title>John McCreesh: Year of 3 / Week of 3</title> - <link>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/10/19/year-of-3-week-of-3/</link> - <content:encoded><p>If 2008 is &#8220;The Year of 3&#8243; - the year <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/product">OpenOffice.org 3.0</a> was released - then it looks like the first week after launch will be &#8220;The Week of 3&#8243; - the week 3 million copies were downloaded from the Bouncer system:<br /> -<a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/downloads1019.png"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-590" title="Downloads" src="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/downloads1019.png" alt="The first four days" width="500" height="299" /></a><br /> -What are Bouncer figures? if you download OpenOffice.org from <a href="http://download.openoffice.org">the download page</a>, you will go via the Bouncer, and your download will be logged. These logs are the only figures we are able to quantify accurately, but they are a considerable underestimate of the actual number of downloads. For example, Linux users account for less than 10% of the downloads we record in Bouncer, as most Linux users download OpenOffice.org via their distributor rather than directly from us. Similarly some of our larger native-lang communities don&#8217;t use Bouncer.</p> -<p>Direct download is only one distribution method, and only usable if you have a broadband connection. The next option is via CD-ROM, possibly bought locally. OpenOffice.org 3.0 is also being added to cover disks for PC magazines around the world, so as time goes by, the number of on-line installs decreases, and off-line increases.</p> -<p>So how many people are already using OpenOffice.org 3.0? No-one knows. We know that the Bouncer figures underestimate the number of downloads. We know the number of downloads is considerably less than the number of installed copies. So five million users already?</p> -<p>What&#8217;s our target? well, in our <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/strategy/">Strategic Marketing Plan</a> - published in 2004 - we aimed to have <a href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Strategic_Marketing_Plan#Usage_Goals">a 40% market share by 2010</a>. That doesn&#8217;t seem as ambitious today as it did four years ago. The &#8220;Year of 3&#8243; is a notable milestone en route.</p></content:encoded> - <dc:date>2008-10-19T13:16:25+00:00</dc:date> -</item> </rdf:RDF> File [changed]: rss20.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/rss20.xml?r1=1.508&r2=1.509 Delta lines: +13 -12 --------------------- --- rss20.xml 2008-10-31 00:00:59+0000 1.508 +++ rss20.xml 2008-11-01 06:00:36+0000 1.509 @@ -8,6 +8,19 @@ <description>Marketing Planet - http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/</description> <item> + <title>Benjamin Horst: Open Source Desktops Have Lowest Maintenance Cost</title> + <guid>http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=901</guid> + <link>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/901</link> + <description><p>That open source is more cost effective in initial deployment and ongoing maintenance is not surprising to anyone who uses open source software, despite the premise being attacked by Microsoft (and some people apparently do believe MS&#8217; marketing).</p> +<p>The experience of the German Foreign Ministry is that <a href="http://www.metamorphosis.org.mk/content/view/1279/4/lang,en/">open source desktops cost less to operate and maintain than Windows and Microsoft Office-based systems</a>, reports <a href="http://www.metamorphosis.org.mk/index.php?lang=en">Metamorphosis</a>:</p> +<p>&#8220;Open Source desktops are far cheaper to maintain than proprietary desktop configurations, says Rolf Schuster, a diplomat at the German Embassy in Madrid and the former head of IT at the Foreign Ministry.&#8221;</p> +<p>This is an informed opinion, as the Ministry has been working with open source since 2001, and is currently midway through a complete migration to FOSS.</p> +<p>&#8220;The Foreign Ministry is migrating all of its 11,000 desktops to GNU/Linux and other open source applications. According to Schuster, this has drastically reduced maintenance costs in comparison with other ministries. &#8220;The Foreign Ministry is running desktops in many far away and some very difficult locations. Yet we spend only one thousand euros per desktop per year. That is far lower than other ministries, that on average spend more than 3,000 euros per desktop per year.</p> +<p>&#8220;The ministry has so far migrated almost four thousand of its desktops to GNU/Linux and expects to complete the move by the summer of 2009, Schuster said. About half of all the 230 embassies and consulates have now been switched over. &#8220;It is not without problems. It took a while to find a developer in Japan to help us with some font issues we had in OpenOffice.&#8221;</p> +<p>The groundwork of the past few years is beginning to pay off for a large number of first-movers around the world. I expect the migration trend will continue to accelerate as more and more case studies help to sway the slower adopters.</p></description> + <pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 15:59:59 +0000</pubDate> +</item> +<item> <title>John McCreesh: There at last - 2.4.2</title> <guid>http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=599</guid> <link>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/10/30/there-at-last-242/</link> @@ -355,18 +368,6 @@ <p>If you haven&#8217;t tried OpenOffice.org 3.0 yet, here&#8217;s <a href="http://why.openoffice.org">why you should</a>, and here&#8217;s <a href="http://download.openoffice.org">where you download it</a>. It&#8217;s great software; it&#8217;s easy to use; and it&#8217;s free. Give it a try!</p></description> <pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 08:26:32 +0000</pubDate> </item> -<item> - <title>John McCreesh: Year of 3 / Week of 3</title> - <guid>http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=589</guid> - <link>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/10/19/year-of-3-week-of-3/</link> - <description><p>If 2008 is &#8220;The Year of 3&#8243; - the year <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/product">OpenOffice.org 3.0</a> was released - then it looks like the first week after launch will be &#8220;The Week of 3&#8243; - the week 3 million copies were downloaded from the Bouncer system:<br /> -<a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/downloads1019.png"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-590" title="Downloads" src="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/downloads1019.png" alt="The first four days" width="500" height="299" /></a><br /> -What are Bouncer figures? if you download OpenOffice.org from <a href="http://download.openoffice.org">the download page</a>, you will go via the Bouncer, and your download will be logged. These logs are the only figures we are able to quantify accurately, but they are a considerable underestimate of the actual number of downloads. For example, Linux users account for less than 10% of the downloads we record in Bouncer, as most Linux users download OpenOffice.org via their distributor rather than directly from us. Similarly some of our larger native-lang communities don&#8217;t use Bouncer.</p> -<p>Direct download is only one distribution method, and only usable if you have a broadband connection. The next option is via CD-ROM, possibly bought locally. OpenOffice.org 3.0 is also being added to cover disks for PC magazines around the world, so as time goes by, the number of on-line installs decreases, and off-line increases.</p> -<p>So how many people are already using OpenOffice.org 3.0? No-one knows. We know that the Bouncer figures underestimate the number of downloads. We know the number of downloads is considerably less than the number of installed copies. So five million users already?</p> -<p>What&#8217;s our target? well, in our <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/strategy/">Strategic Marketing Plan</a> - published in 2004 - we aimed to have <a href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Strategic_Marketing_Plan#Usage_Goals">a 40% market share by 2010</a>. That doesn&#8217;t seem as ambitious today as it did four years ago. The &#8220;Year of 3&#8243; is a notable milestone en route.</p></description> - <pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2008 13:16:25 +0000</pubDate> -</item> </channel> </rss> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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