User: jpmcc Date: 2008-12-16 17:59:40+0000 Modified: marketing/www/planet/atom.xml marketing/www/planet/index.html marketing/www/planet/opml.xml marketing/www/planet/rss10.xml marketing/www/planet/rss20.xml
Log: Planet run at Tue Dec 16 18:00:14 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=1.1280&r2=1.1281 Delta lines: +37 -50 --------------------- --- atom.xml 2008-12-16 11:59:41+0000 1.1280 +++ atom.xml 2008-12-16 17:59:37+0000 1.1281 @@ -5,10 +5,37 @@ <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>2008-12-16T12:00:28+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-12-16T18:00:25+00:00</updated> <generator uri="http://www.planetplanet.org/";>Planet/2.0 +http://www.planetplanet.org</generator> <entry xml:lang="en"> + <title type="html">âOpenOffice Skakes Microsoftâ</title> + <link href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/926"/> + <id>http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=926</id> + <updated>2008-12-16T16:25:36+00:00</updated> + <content type="html"><p><a href="http://www.australianit.news.com.au/"><em>Australian IT</em></a> publishes &#8220;<a href="http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,24734388-39525,00.html">OpenOffice Skakes Microsoft</a>,&#8221; reviewing and promoting OpenOffice to a mainstream tech audience.</p> +<p>With OOo 3.0, most normal users will find OpenOffice a complete replacement for MS Office: &#8220;Here at <em>Doubleclick</em> we&#8217;ve been using OpenOffice 3.0 for some weeks and we must say it&#8217;s getting harder and harder to see why average users would want to shell out several hundred dollars for MS Office.&#8221;</p> +<p>That&#8217;s great for software users, but why does it &#8220;skake&#8221; Microsoft? (And what does &#8220;skake&#8221; mean, anyway?) Here&#8217;s author David Frith&#8217;s answer:</p> +<blockquote><p>Steve Ballmer recently told a US business users&#8217; conference OpenOffice is the only one that Microsoft regards as serious competition.</p> +<p>A &#8220;thermometer&#8221; on the OpenOffice.org website shows why.</p> +<p>In the first four weeks after release, OpenOffice 3.0 was downloaded more than 12 million times.</p> +<p>That&#8217;s probably at least $2.5 billion lost to Microsoft, and mounting at $600 million a week.</p> +<p>So now you know why OpenOffice&#8217;s existence gives Steve Ballmer the shivers.</p></blockquote> +<p>Don&#8217;t look at these numbers as money Microsoft has lost (that would be cruel and unnecessary). Look at these numbers as money everyone has collectively saved, and that is a great thing in an economy like today&#8217;s!</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>2008-12-16T18:00:17+00:00</updated> + </source> + </entry> + + <entry xml:lang="en"> <title type="html">BBC: Internet Explorer Security Alert</title> <link href="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/12/16/bbc-internet-explorer-security-alert/"/> <id>http://www.theopensourcerer.com/?p=589</id> @@ -61,7 +88,7 @@ <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>2008-12-16T00:00:17+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-12-16T18:00:17+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -114,7 +141,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">A weblog by Charles-H. 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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> - <author> - <name>Alan Lord</name> - <uri>http://www.theopensourcerer.com</uri> - </author> - <source> - <title type="html">The Open Sourcerer » OpenOffice.org</title> - <subtitle type="html">The Magic of Open Source</subtitle> - <link rel="self" href="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/tag/openofficeorg/feed/"/> - <id>http://www.theopensourcerer.com/tag/openofficeorg/feed/</id> - <updated>2008-12-16T12:00:28+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-12-16T18:00:17+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> File [changed]: index.html Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/index.html?r1=1.1287&r2=1.1288 Delta lines: +23 -36 --------------------- --- index.html 2008-12-16 11:59:41+0000 1.1287 +++ index.html 2008-12-16 17:59:37+0000 1.1288 @@ -37,10 +37,32 @@ <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: December 16, 2008 12:00 PM GMT</em></p> +<p><em>Bloggings on marketing topics by project members - see <a href="#disclaimer">disclaimer</a>.<br />Last updated: December 16, 2008 06:00 PM GMT</em></p> <h2>December 16, 2008</h2> <h3> +<a href="http://www.solidoffice.com"; title="SolidOffice » OpenOffice.org"> +Benjamin Horst</a> : +<a href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/926";> +âOpenOffice Skakes Microsoftâ</a> +</h3> +<p> +<p><a href="http://www.australianit.news.com.au/";><em>Australian IT</em></a> publishes “<a href="http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,24734388-39525,00.html";>OpenOffice Skakes Microsoft</a>,” reviewing and promoting OpenOffice to a mainstream tech audience.</p> +<p>With OOo 3.0, most normal users will find OpenOffice a complete replacement for MS Office: “Here at <em>Doubleclick</em> we’ve been using OpenOffice 3.0 for some weeks and we must say it’s getting harder and harder to see why average users would want to shell out several hundred dollars for MS Office.”</p> +<p>That’s great for software users, but why does it “skake” Microsoft? (And what does “skake” mean, anyway?) Here’s author David Frith’s answer:</p> +<blockquote><p>Steve Ballmer recently told a US business users’ conference OpenOffice is the only one that Microsoft regards as serious competition.</p> +<p>A “thermometer” on the OpenOffice.org website shows why.</p> +<p>In the first four weeks after release, OpenOffice 3.0 was downloaded more than 12 million times.</p> +<p>That’s probably at least $2.5 billion lost to Microsoft, and mounting at $600 million a week.</p> +<p>So now you know why OpenOffice’s existence gives Steve Ballmer the shivers.</p></blockquote> +<p>Don’t look at these numbers as money Microsoft has lost (that would be cruel and unnecessary). Look at these numbers as money everyone has collectively saved, and that is a great thing in an economy like today’s!</p></p> +<p> +<em><a href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/926";>by Benjamin Horst at December 16, 2008 04:25 PM GMT</a></em> +</p> +<br /> +<hr /> +<br /> +<h3> <a href="http://www.theopensourcerer.com"; title="The Open Sourcerer » OpenOffice.org"> Alan Lord</a> : <a href="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/12/16/bbc-internet-explorer-security-alert/";> @@ -410,41 +432,6 @@ <br /> <hr /> <br /> -<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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/> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/?p=589"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=925"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=613"; /> @@ -32,11 +33,24 @@ <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-4445158636149059485" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-4759548021148926484" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=918"; /> - <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/?p=561"; /> </rdf:Seq> </items> </channel> +<item rdf:about="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=926";> + <title>Benjamin Horst: âOpenOffice Skakes Microsoftâ</title> + <link>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/926</link> + <content:encoded><p><a href="http://www.australianit.news.com.au/"><em>Australian IT</em></a> publishes &#8220;<a href="http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,24734388-39525,00.html">OpenOffice Skakes Microsoft</a>,&#8221; reviewing and promoting OpenOffice to a mainstream tech audience.</p> +<p>With OOo 3.0, most normal users will find OpenOffice a complete replacement for MS Office: &#8220;Here at <em>Doubleclick</em> we&#8217;ve been using OpenOffice 3.0 for some weeks and we must say it&#8217;s getting harder and harder to see why average users would want to shell out several hundred dollars for MS Office.&#8221;</p> +<p>That&#8217;s great for software users, but why does it &#8220;skake&#8221; Microsoft? (And what does &#8220;skake&#8221; mean, anyway?) Here&#8217;s author David Frith&#8217;s answer:</p> +<blockquote><p>Steve Ballmer recently told a US business users&#8217; conference OpenOffice is the only one that Microsoft regards as serious competition.</p> +<p>A &#8220;thermometer&#8221; on the OpenOffice.org website shows why.</p> +<p>In the first four weeks after release, OpenOffice 3.0 was downloaded more than 12 million times.</p> +<p>That&#8217;s probably at least $2.5 billion lost to Microsoft, and mounting at $600 million a week.</p> +<p>So now you know why OpenOffice&#8217;s existence gives Steve Ballmer the shivers.</p></blockquote> +<p>Don&#8217;t look at these numbers as money Microsoft has lost (that would be cruel and unnecessary). Look at these numbers as money everyone has collectively saved, and that is a great thing in an economy like today&#8217;s!</p></content:encoded> + <dc:date>2008-12-16T16:25:36+00:00</dc:date> +</item> <item rdf:about="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/?p=589";> <title>Alan Lord: BBC: Internet Explorer Security Alert</title> <link>http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/12/16/bbc-internet-explorer-security-alert/</link> @@ -256,32 +270,5 @@ <p>Good luck, and let me know if you have further questions!</p></blockquote></content:encoded> <dc:date>2008-12-02T15:09:20+00:00</dc:date> </item> -<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>. 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(And what does &#8220;skake&#8221; mean, anyway?) Here&#8217;s author David Frith&#8217;s answer:</p> +<blockquote><p>Steve Ballmer recently told a US business users&#8217; conference OpenOffice is the only one that Microsoft regards as serious competition.</p> +<p>A &#8220;thermometer&#8221; on the OpenOffice.org website shows why.</p> +<p>In the first four weeks after release, OpenOffice 3.0 was downloaded more than 12 million times.</p> +<p>That&#8217;s probably at least $2.5 billion lost to Microsoft, and mounting at $600 million a week.</p> +<p>So now you know why OpenOffice&#8217;s existence gives Steve Ballmer the shivers.</p></blockquote> +<p>Don&#8217;t look at these numbers as money Microsoft has lost (that would be cruel and unnecessary). Look at these numbers as money everyone has collectively saved, and that is a great thing in an economy like today&#8217;s!</p></description> + <pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:25:36 +0000</pubDate> +</item> +<item> <title>Alan Lord: BBC: Internet Explorer Security Alert</title> <guid>http://www.theopensourcerer.com/?p=589</guid> <link>http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/12/16/bbc-internet-explorer-security-alert/</link> @@ -242,34 +257,6 @@ <p>Good luck, and let me know if you have further questions!</p></blockquote></description> <pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:09:20 +0000</pubDate> </item> -<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>. 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