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Log: Planet run at Tue Dec 2 12:00:14 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=1.1230&r2=1.1231 Delta lines: +44 -29 --------------------- --- atom.xml 2008-12-02 05:59:53+0000 1.1230 +++ atom.xml 2008-12-02 12:00:02+0000 1.1231 @@ -5,10 +5,50 @@ <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>2008-12-02T06:00:23+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-12-02T12:00:31+00:00</updated> <generator uri="http://www.planetplanet.org/";>Planet/2.0 +http://www.planetplanet.org</generator> <entry xml:lang="en"> + <title type="html">OpenOffice.org saves you £30Million/dayâ¦</title> + <link href="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/12/02/openofficeorg-saves-you-30millionday/"/> + <id>http://www.theopensourcerer.com/?p=561</id> + <updated>2008-12-02T11:24:14+00:00</updated> + <content type="html"><p>&#8230; by my reckoning at least.</p> +<p>Take a look at this chart (click for a bigger image):</p> +<p><a href="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/barchart.png"><img class="size-medium wp-image-562 aligncenter" title="OpenOffice.org Download Barchart" src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/barchart-300x131.png" alt="OpenOffice.org Download Barchart" width="300" height="131" /></a></p> +<p>That looks to be a rough average of about 300,000 downloads of the free and open source <a title="OpenOffice.org" href="http://openoffice.org" target="_blank">OpenOffice.org</a> application suite every day for the last 28 days, which means about 8.5Million downloads this month. So to me, that works out something like this:</p> +<p>If MS Office is worth about £100 (I guess that&#8217;s a reasonable average price) then that&#8217;s about £30Million pounds worth of software being downloaded for free <em><strong>every day</strong></em>.</p> +<p>In the last 28 days, that works out at about £840Million, or in US Dollars about <strong>$1.25Billion</strong> at the current exchange rate.</p> +<p>Now according to the OpenOffice.org&#8217;s <a title="The Bouncer. Download counter" href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/marketing_bouncer.html" target="_blank">bouncer</a> today (02/12/2008), there have been a bit less than 18Million<sup><a href="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/tag/openofficeorg/feed#1">1</a></sup> downloads so far since the <a title="OOo staggeringly popular" href="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/10/14/openofficeorg-30-immensely-staggeringly-popular/">release</a> of OOo 3.0 on the 13th October. Or, to put it another way:</p> +<div>$2.7Billion</div> +<p>worth of software since launch.</p> +<p>How much does our government spend on MSO licenses each year? Think they should stop wasting their money? Fortunately, if it carries on like this, they will probably have to upgrade to OpenOffice.org <img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif" alt=";-)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p> +<p><a name="1"><b>[1]</b></a> Please see the Bouncer <a title="The Bouncer FAQ" href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/marketing_bouncer_faq.html" target="_blank">FAQ</a> for more details on what is recorded, but be aware that this number is probably very low in actuality:</p> +<blockquote> +<h3>Does the Bouncer provide the full story?</h3> +<p><strong>No!</strong> - it only records downloads started a single point, the <a href="http://downloads.openoffice.org/">OpenOffice.org download page</a>. It omits:</p> +<ul> +<li>downloads which people make directly from mirrors</li> +<li>downloads via other mechanisms, such as <a href="http://distribution.openoffice.org/p2p/">peer-to-peer networks</a></li> +<li>downloads from other third-party repositories - including GNU/Linux distributions (see next question)</li> +</ul> +<p>Note also that the Bouncer logs when it successfully redirects someone to a download site - if the user chooses not to download, or cancels the download, then the Bouncer will not be aware.</p></blockquote> +<!-- Social Bookmarking Reloaded BEGIN --><div class="social_bookmark"><em>Tell Someone Else!</em><br /><a class="social_img" href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/12/02/openofficeorg-saves-you-30millionday/&title=OpenOffice.org+saves+you+%C2%A330Million%2Fday%26%238230%3B" title="Add 'OpenOffice.org saves you £30Million/day&#8230;' to Del.icio.us"><img 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<id>http://www.theopensourcerer.com/tag/openofficeorg/feed</id> + <updated>2008-12-02T12:00:31+00:00</updated> + </source> + </entry> + + <entry xml:lang="en"> <title type="html">â9 Must-Have OpenOffice Extensionsâ</title> <link href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/917"/> <id>http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=917</id> @@ -111,7 +151,7 @@ <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>2008-12-02T06:00:18+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-12-02T12:00:18+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -288,7 +328,7 @@ <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>2008-12-02T06:00:18+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-12-02T12:00:18+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -400,7 +440,7 @@ <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>2008-12-02T06:00:18+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-12-02T12:00:18+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -456,29 +496,4 @@ </source> </entry> - <entry> - <title type="html">New: OOo-DEV 3.0 Developer Snapshot (build DEV300_m35) available</title> - <link href="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/new_ooo_dev_3_024"/> - <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/4a50ad19bbd7ce6c</id> - <updated>2008-11-13T16:11:31+00:00</updated> - <content type="html"><p><b>Developer Snapshot build OOo-Dev </b>build <b>DEV300_m35</b> which installs as OOo-DEV 3.0 (should be 3.1) has -been uploaded to the mirror network.<br /><br />If -you find severe issues within this build please file them to -OpenOffice.org's bug tracking system IssueTracker.<br /> <br />Please use the following link<br /><a title="Download page" href="http://download.openoffice.org/680/index.html">http://download.openoffice.org/680/index.html</a></p> - <p>Packages are available from <b>extended</b> mirror sites from within the ./extended/developer/DEV300_m35 directory:</p> - <p><a href="http://distribution.openoffice.org/mirrors#extmirrors">http://distribution.openoffice.org/mirrors/#mirrors</a> </p> - <p>MD5SUMS: -<br /><a title="Page containing MD5SUM checksums" href="http://download.openoffice.org/680/md5sums.html">http://download.openoffice.org/680/md5sums.html</a></p></content> - <author> - <name>Joost Andrae</name> - <uri></uri> - </author> - <source> - <title type="html">jpmcc's shared items in Google 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+<h2>December 02, 2008</h2> +<h3> +<a href="http://www.theopensourcerer.com"; title="The Open Sourcerer » OpenOffice.org"> +Alan Lord</a> : +<a href="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/12/02/openofficeorg-saves-you-30millionday/";> +OpenOffice.org saves you £30Million/dayâ¦</a> +</h3> +<p> +<p>… by my reckoning at least.</p> +<p>Take a look at this chart (click for a bigger image):</p> +<p><a href="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/barchart.png";><img class="size-medium wp-image-562 aligncenter" title="OpenOffice.org Download Barchart" src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/barchart-300x131.png"; alt="OpenOffice.org Download Barchart" width="300" height="131" /></a></p> +<p>That looks to be a rough average of about 300,000 downloads of the free and open source <a title="OpenOffice.org" href="http://openoffice.org"; target="_blank">OpenOffice.org</a> application suite every day for the last 28 days, which means about 8.5Million downloads this month. So to me, that works out something like this:</p> +<p>If MS Office is worth about £100 (I guess that’s a reasonable average price) then that’s about £30Million pounds worth of software being downloaded for free <em><strong>every day</strong></em>.</p> +<p>In the last 28 days, that works out at about £840Million, or in US Dollars about <strong>$1.25Billion</strong> at the current exchange rate.</p> +<p>Now according to the OpenOffice.org’s <a title="The Bouncer. Download counter" href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/marketing_bouncer.html"; target="_blank">bouncer</a> today (02/12/2008), there have been a bit less than 18Million<sup><a href="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/tag/openofficeorg/feed#1";>1</a></sup> downloads so far since the <a title="OOo staggeringly popular" href="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/10/14/openofficeorg-30-immensely-staggeringly-popular/";>release</a> of OOo 3.0 on the 13th October. Or, to put it another way:</p> +<div>$2.7Billion</div> +<p>worth of software since launch.</p> +<p>How much does our government spend on MSO licenses each year? Think they should stop wasting their money? Fortunately, if it carries on like this, they will probably have to upgrade to OpenOffice.org <img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif"; alt=";-)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p> +<p><a name="1"><b>[1]</b></a> Please see the Bouncer <a title="The Bouncer FAQ" href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/marketing_bouncer_faq.html"; target="_blank">FAQ</a> for more details on what is recorded, but be aware that this number is probably very low in actuality:</p> +<blockquote> +<h3>Does the Bouncer provide the full story?</h3> +<p><strong>No!</strong> - it only records downloads started a single point, the <a href="http://downloads.openoffice.org/";>OpenOffice.org download page</a>. It omits:</p> +<ul> +<li>downloads which people make directly from mirrors</li> +<li>downloads via other mechanisms, such as <a href="http://distribution.openoffice.org/p2p/";>peer-to-peer networks</a></li> +<li>downloads from other third-party repositories - including GNU/Linux distributions (see next question)</li> +</ul> +<p>Note also that the Bouncer logs when it successfully redirects someone to a download site - if the user chooses not to download, or cancels the download, then the Bouncer will not be aware.</p></blockquote> +<!-- Social Bookmarking Reloaded BEGIN --><div class="social_bookmark"><em>Tell Someone Else!</em><br /><a class="social_img" href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/12/02/openofficeorg-saves-you-30millionday/&title=OpenOffice.org+saves+you+%C2%A330Million%2Fday%26%238230%3B"; title="Add 'OpenOffice.org saves you £30Million/day…' to Del.icio.us"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/delicious.png"; 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title="SolidOffice » OpenOffice.org"> @@ -402,27 +438,6 @@ <br /> <hr /> <br /> -<h3> -<a href="" title="jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader"> -GullFOSS</a> : -<a href="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/new_ooo_dev_3_024";> -New: OOo-DEV 3.0 Developer Snapshot (build DEV300_m35) available</a> -</h3> -<p> -<p><b>Developer Snapshot build OOo-Dev </b>build <b>DEV300_m35</b> which installs as OOo-DEV 3.0 (should be 3.1) has -been uploaded to the mirror network.<br /><br />If -you find severe issues within this build please file them to -OpenOffice.org's bug tracking system IssueTracker.<br /> <br />Please use the following link<br /><a title="Download page" href="http://download.openoffice.org/680/index.html";>http://download.openoffice.org/680/index.html</a></p> - <p>Packages are available from <b>extended</b> mirror sites from within the ./extended/developer/DEV300_m35 directory:</p> - <p><a href="http://distribution.openoffice.org/mirrors#extmirrors";>http://distribution.openoffice.org/mirrors/#mirrors</a> </p> - <p>MD5SUMS: -<br /><a title="Page containing MD5SUM checksums" href="http://download.openoffice.org/680/md5sums.html";>http://download.openoffice.org/680/md5sums.html</a></p></p> -<p> -<em><a href="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/new_ooo_dev_3_024";>by Joost Andrae at November 13, 2008 04:11 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=1.1230&r2=1.1231 Delta lines: +1 -1 ------------------- --- opml.xml 2008-12-02 05:59:53+0000 1.1230 +++ opml.xml 2008-12-02 12:00:03+0000 1.1231 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ <opml version="1.1"> <head> <title>Marketing Planet</title> - <dateModified>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 06:00:24 +0000</dateModified> + <dateModified>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:00:31 +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=1.556&r2=1.557 Delta lines: +28 -15 --------------------- --- rss10.xml 2008-12-01 23:59:54+0000 1.556 +++ rss10.xml 2008-12-02 12:00:04+0000 1.557 @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ <items> <rdf:Seq> + <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/?p=561"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=917"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-8159324126494009918" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=610"; /> @@ -32,11 +33,37 @@ <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/181abaaef6c58d9e" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-921724136108677387" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=605"; /> - <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/4a50ad19bbd7ce6c" /> </rdf:Seq> </items> </channel> +<item rdf:about="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/?p=561";> + <title>Alan Lord: OpenOffice.org saves you £30Million/dayâ¦</title> + <link>http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/12/02/openofficeorg-saves-you-30millionday/</link> + <content:encoded><p>&#8230; by my reckoning at least.</p> +<p>Take a look at this chart (click for a bigger image):</p> +<p><a href="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/barchart.png"><img class="size-medium wp-image-562 aligncenter" title="OpenOffice.org Download Barchart" src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/barchart-300x131.png" alt="OpenOffice.org Download Barchart" width="300" height="131" /></a></p> +<p>That looks to be a rough average of about 300,000 downloads of the free and open source <a title="OpenOffice.org" href="http://openoffice.org" target="_blank">OpenOffice.org</a> application suite every day for the last 28 days, which means about 8.5Million downloads this month. So to me, that works out something like this:</p> +<p>If MS Office is worth about £100 (I guess that&#8217;s a reasonable average price) then that&#8217;s about £30Million pounds worth of software being downloaded for free <em><strong>every day</strong></em>.</p> +<p>In the last 28 days, that works out at about £840Million, or in US Dollars about <strong>$1.25Billion</strong> at the current exchange rate.</p> +<p>Now according to the OpenOffice.org&#8217;s <a title="The Bouncer. Download counter" href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/marketing_bouncer.html" target="_blank">bouncer</a> today (02/12/2008), there have been a bit less than 18Million<sup><a href="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/tag/openofficeorg/feed#1">1</a></sup> downloads so far since the <a title="OOo staggeringly popular" href="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/10/14/openofficeorg-30-immensely-staggeringly-popular/">release</a> of OOo 3.0 on the 13th October. Or, to put it another way:</p> +<div>$2.7Billion</div> +<p>worth of software since launch.</p> +<p>How much does our government spend on MSO licenses each year? Think they should stop wasting their money? Fortunately, if it carries on like this, they will probably have to upgrade to OpenOffice.org <img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif" alt=";-)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p> +<p><a name="1"><b>[1]</b></a> Please see the Bouncer <a title="The Bouncer FAQ" href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/marketing_bouncer_faq.html" target="_blank">FAQ</a> for more details on what is recorded, but be aware that this number is probably very low in actuality:</p> +<blockquote> +<h3>Does the Bouncer provide the full story?</h3> +<p><strong>No!</strong> - it only records downloads started a single point, the <a href="http://downloads.openoffice.org/">OpenOffice.org download page</a>. It omits:</p> +<ul> +<li>downloads which people make directly from mirrors</li> +<li>downloads via other mechanisms, such as <a href="http://distribution.openoffice.org/p2p/">peer-to-peer networks</a></li> +<li>downloads from other third-party repositories - including GNU/Linux distributions (see next question)</li> +</ul> +<p>Note also that the Bouncer logs when it successfully redirects someone to a download site - if the user chooses not to download, or cancels the download, then the Bouncer will not be aware.</p></blockquote> +<!-- Social Bookmarking Reloaded BEGIN --><div class="social_bookmark"><em>Tell Someone Else!</em><br /><a class="social_img" href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/12/02/openofficeorg-saves-you-30millionday/&title=OpenOffice.org+saves+you+%C2%A330Million%2Fday%26%238230%3B" title="Add 'OpenOffice.org saves you £30Million/day&#8230;' to Del.icio.us"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/delicious.png" title="Add 'OpenOffice.org saves you £30Million/day&#8230;' to Del.icio.us" alt="Add 'OpenOffice.org saves you £30Million/day&#8230;' to Del.icio.us" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/12/02/openofficeorg-saves-you-30millionday/&title=OpenOffice.org+saves+you+%C2%A330Million%2Fday%26%238230%3B" title="Add 'OpenOffice.org saves you £30Million/day&#8230;' to digg"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/digg.png" title="Add 'OpenOffice.org saves you £30Million/day&#8230;' to digg" alt="Add 'OpenOffice.org saves you £30Million/day&#8230;' to digg" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://www.technorati.com/faves?add=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/12/02/openofficeorg-saves-you-30millionday/" title="Add 'OpenOffice.org saves you £30Million/day&#8230;' to Technorati"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/technorati.png" title="Add 'OpenOffice.org saves you £30Million/day&#8230;' to Technorati" alt="Add 'OpenOffice.org saves you £30Million/day&#8230;' to Technorati" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/12/02/openofficeorg-saves-you-30millionday/&title=OpenOffice.org+saves+you+%C2%A330Million%2Fday%26%238230%3B" title="Add 'OpenOffice.org saves you £30Million/day&#8230;' to Stumble Upon"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/stumbleupon.png" title="Add 'OpenOffice.org saves you £30Million/day&#8230;' to Stumble Upon" alt="Add 'OpenOffice.org saves you £30Million/day&#8230;' to Stumble Upon" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://www.google.com/bookmarks/mark?op=edit&output=popup&bkmk=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/12/02/openofficeorg-saves-you-30millionday/&title=OpenOffice.org+saves+you+%C2%A330Million%2Fday%26%238230%3B" title="Add 'OpenOffice.org saves you £30Million/day&#8230;' to Google Bookmarks"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/google.png" title="Add 'OpenOffice.org saves you £30Million/day&#8230;' to Google Bookmarks" alt="Add 'OpenOffice.org saves you £30Million/day&#8230;' to Google Bookmarks" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://www.bloglines.com/sub/http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/12/02/openofficeorg-saves-you-30millionday/" title="Add 'OpenOffice.org saves you £30Million/day&#8230;' to Bloglines"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/bloglines.png" title="Add 'OpenOffice.org saves you £30Million/day&#8230;' to Bloglines" alt="Add 'OpenOffice.org saves you £30Million/day&#8230;' to Bloglines" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://slashdot.org/bookmark.pl?title=OpenOffice.org+saves+you+%C2%A330Million%2Fday%26%238230%3B&url=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/12/02/openofficeorg-saves-you-30millionday/" title="Add 'OpenOffice.org saves you £30Million/day&#8230;' to SlashDot"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/slashdot.png" title="Add 'OpenOffice.org saves you £30Million/day&#8230;' to SlashDot" alt="Add 'OpenOffice.org saves you £30Million/day&#8230;' to SlashDot" /></a></div> +<!-- Social Bookmarking Reloaded END --></content:encoded> + <dc:date>2008-12-02T11:24:14+00:00</dc:date> +</item> <item rdf:about="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=917";> <title>Benjamin Horst: â9 Must-Have OpenOffice Extensionsâ</title> <link>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/917</link> @@ -242,19 +269,5 @@ <p>What can be done about it? very little, as long as search engine operators continue to accept money for diverting people to their para-sites.</p></content:encoded> <dc:date>2008-11-13T19:27:05+00:00</dc:date> </item> -<item rdf:about="tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/4a50ad19bbd7ce6c"> - <title>GullFOSS: New: OOo-DEV 3.0 Developer Snapshot (build DEV300_m35) available</title> - <link>http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/new_ooo_dev_3_024</link> - <content:encoded><p><b>Developer Snapshot build OOo-Dev </b>build <b>DEV300_m35</b> which installs as OOo-DEV 3.0 (should be 3.1) has -been uploaded to the mirror network.<br /><br />If -you find severe issues within this build please file them to -OpenOffice.org's bug tracking system IssueTracker.<br /> <br />Please use the following link<br /><a title="Download page" href="http://download.openoffice.org/680/index.html">http://download.openoffice.org/680/index.html</a></p> - <p>Packages are available from <b>extended</b> mirror sites from within the ./extended/developer/DEV300_m35 directory:</p> - <p><a href="http://distribution.openoffice.org/mirrors#extmirrors">http://distribution.openoffice.org/mirrors/#mirrors</a> </p> - <p>MD5SUMS: -<br /><a title="Page containing MD5SUM checksums" href="http://download.openoffice.org/680/md5sums.html">http://download.openoffice.org/680/md5sums.html</a></p></content:encoded> - <dc:date>2008-11-13T16:11:31+00:00</dc:date> - <dc:creator>Joost Andrae</dc:creator> -</item> </rdf:RDF> File [changed]: rss20.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/rss20.xml?r1=1.556&r2=1.557 Delta lines: +28 -14 --------------------- --- rss20.xml 2008-12-01 23:59:55+0000 1.556 +++ rss20.xml 2008-12-02 12:00:05+0000 1.557 @@ -8,6 +8,34 @@ <description>Marketing Planet - http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/</description> <item> + <title>Alan Lord: OpenOffice.org saves you £30Million/dayâ¦</title> + <guid>http://www.theopensourcerer.com/?p=561</guid> + <link>http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/12/02/openofficeorg-saves-you-30millionday/</link> + <description><p>&#8230; by my reckoning at least.</p> +<p>Take a look at this chart (click for a bigger image):</p> +<p><a href="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/barchart.png"><img class="size-medium wp-image-562 aligncenter" title="OpenOffice.org Download Barchart" src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/barchart-300x131.png" alt="OpenOffice.org Download Barchart" width="300" height="131" /></a></p> +<p>That looks to be a rough average of about 300,000 downloads of the free and open source <a title="OpenOffice.org" href="http://openoffice.org" target="_blank">OpenOffice.org</a> application suite every day for the last 28 days, which means about 8.5Million downloads this month. So to me, that works out something like this:</p> +<p>If MS Office is worth about £100 (I guess that&#8217;s a reasonable average price) then that&#8217;s about £30Million pounds worth of software being downloaded for free <em><strong>every day</strong></em>.</p> +<p>In the last 28 days, that works out at about £840Million, or in US Dollars about <strong>$1.25Billion</strong> at the current exchange rate.</p> +<p>Now according to the OpenOffice.org&#8217;s <a title="The Bouncer. Download counter" href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/marketing_bouncer.html" target="_blank">bouncer</a> today (02/12/2008), there have been a bit less than 18Million<sup><a href="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/tag/openofficeorg/feed#1">1</a></sup> downloads so far since the <a title="OOo staggeringly popular" href="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/10/14/openofficeorg-30-immensely-staggeringly-popular/">release</a> of OOo 3.0 on the 13th October. Or, to put it another way:</p> +<div>$2.7Billion</div> +<p>worth of software since launch.</p> +<p>How much does our government spend on MSO licenses each year? Think they should stop wasting their money? Fortunately, if it carries on like this, they will probably have to upgrade to OpenOffice.org <img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif" alt=";-)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p> +<p><a name="1"><b>[1]</b></a> Please see the Bouncer <a title="The Bouncer FAQ" href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/marketing_bouncer_faq.html" target="_blank">FAQ</a> for more details on what is recorded, but be aware that this number is probably very low in actuality:</p> +<blockquote> +<h3>Does the Bouncer provide the full story?</h3> +<p><strong>No!</strong> - it only records downloads started a single point, the <a href="http://downloads.openoffice.org/">OpenOffice.org download page</a>. It omits:</p> +<ul> +<li>downloads which people make directly from mirrors</li> +<li>downloads via other mechanisms, such as <a href="http://distribution.openoffice.org/p2p/">peer-to-peer networks</a></li> +<li>downloads from other third-party repositories - including GNU/Linux distributions (see next question)</li> +</ul> +<p>Note also that the Bouncer logs when it successfully redirects someone to a download site - if the user chooses not to download, or cancels the download, then the Bouncer will not be aware.</p></blockquote> +<!-- Social Bookmarking Reloaded BEGIN --><div class="social_bookmark"><em>Tell Someone Else!</em><br /><a class="social_img" href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/12/02/openofficeorg-saves-you-30millionday/&title=OpenOffice.org+saves+you+%C2%A330Million%2Fday%26%238230%3B" title="Add 'OpenOffice.org saves you £30Million/day&#8230;' to Del.icio.us"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/delicious.png" title="Add 'OpenOffice.org saves you £30Million/day&#8230;' to Del.icio.us" alt="Add 'OpenOffice.org saves you £30Million/day&#8230;' to Del.icio.us" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/12/02/openofficeorg-saves-you-30millionday/&title=OpenOffice.org+saves+you+%C2%A330Million%2Fday%26%238230%3B" title="Add 'OpenOffice.org saves you £30Million/day&#8230;' to digg"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/digg.png" title="Add 'OpenOffice.org saves you £30Million/day&#8230;' to digg" alt="Add 'OpenOffice.org saves you £30Million/day&#8230;' to digg" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://www.technorati.com/faves?add=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/12/02/openofficeorg-saves-you-30millionday/" title="Add 'OpenOffice.org saves you £30Million/day&#8230;' to Technorati"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/technorati.png" title="Add 'OpenOffice.org saves you £30Million/day&#8230;' to Technorati" alt="Add 'OpenOffice.org saves you £30Million/day&#8230;' to Technorati" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/12/02/openofficeorg-saves-you-30millionday/&title=OpenOffice.org+saves+you+%C2%A330Million%2Fday%26%238230%3B" title="Add 'OpenOffice.org saves you £30Million/day&#8230;' to Stumble Upon"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/stumbleupon.png" title="Add 'OpenOffice.org saves you £30Million/day&#8230;' to Stumble Upon" alt="Add 'OpenOffice.org saves you £30Million/day&#8230;' to Stumble Upon" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://www.google.com/bookmarks/mark?op=edit&output=popup&bkmk=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/12/02/openofficeorg-saves-you-30millionday/&title=OpenOffice.org+saves+you+%C2%A330Million%2Fday%26%238230%3B" title="Add 'OpenOffice.org saves you £30Million/day&#8230;' to Google Bookmarks"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/google.png" title="Add 'OpenOffice.org saves you £30Million/day&#8230;' to Google Bookmarks" alt="Add 'OpenOffice.org saves you £30Million/day&#8230;' to Google Bookmarks" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://www.bloglines.com/sub/http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/12/02/openofficeorg-saves-you-30millionday/" title="Add 'OpenOffice.org saves you £30Million/day&#8230;' to Bloglines"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/bloglines.png" title="Add 'OpenOffice.org saves you £30Million/day&#8230;' to Bloglines" alt="Add 'OpenOffice.org saves you £30Million/day&#8230;' to Bloglines" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://slashdot.org/bookmark.pl?title=OpenOffice.org+saves+you+%C2%A330Million%2Fday%26%238230%3B&url=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/12/02/openofficeorg-saves-you-30millionday/" title="Add 'OpenOffice.org saves you £30Million/day&#8230;' to SlashDot"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/slashdot.png" title="Add 'OpenOffice.org saves you £30Million/day&#8230;' to SlashDot" alt="Add 'OpenOffice.org saves you £30Million/day&#8230;' to SlashDot" /></a></div> +<!-- Social Bookmarking Reloaded END --></description> + <pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:24:14 +0000</pubDate> +</item> +<item> <title>Benjamin Horst: â9 Must-Have OpenOffice Extensionsâ</title> <guid>http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=917</guid> <link>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/917</link> @@ -228,20 +256,6 @@ <p>What can be done about it? 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