User: jpmcc Date: 2009-01-06 23:59:33+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 Wed Jan 7 00:00:13 GMT 2009 File Changes: Directory: /marketing/www/planet/ ================================= File [changed]: atom.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/atom.xml?r1=1.1363&r2=1.1364 Delta lines: +42 -32 --------------------- --- atom.xml 2009-01-06 17:59:35+0000 1.1363 +++ atom.xml 2009-01-06 23:59:30+0000 1.1364 @@ -5,10 +5,47 @@ <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>2009-01-06T18:00:28+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-01-07T00:00:23+00:00</updated> <generator uri="http://www.planetplanet.org/";>Planet/2.0 +http://www.planetplanet.org</generator> <entry xml:lang="en"> + <title type="html">Predictions &amp; Resolutions</title> + <link href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/01/07/predictions-resolutions/"/> + <id>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/01/07/predictions-resolutions/</id> + <updated>2009-01-06T22:10:36+00:00</updated> + <content type="html"><p>The time of the year for predictions started in December, the time of resolutions started a few days ago. Let&#8217;s tie those together in this post&#8230;<span class="Apple-style-span">Predictions:</span> +<ul> +<li> It will be a great year for Free &amp; Open Source Software. I know it&#8217;s been written several times that because of dwindling I.T. budgets resulting from the global crisis money would be less spent on expensive licensing, but I do buy into this theory. However it&#8217;s certainly not the only explanation: Free Software gets better, Microsoft is losing its grip on the desktop (yet tries hard to come back with Silverlight and other initiatives), and applications go in the cloud.</li> +<li>Talking about the cloud, we will see this trend going. But there&#8217;s a paradox in this pattern: do not believe that people only need a browser and do not pay attention to their actual desktop. They do, and they want a nice user experience, bells and whistles that do not actually annoy them, and fewer glitches.</li> +<li>It&#8217;s been a reality in 2008, and will get even more obvious by 2009: consumers dictate what they want as an user experience, corporate (office) computing follows, just the opposite as what was going on in the eighties. But perhaps a better way of putting it is that those lines defined by mom and pop marketing concepts are blurring. </li> +<li>Office computing, the good old days: Microsoft seems to have some trouble implementing ODF. But they claim to have no difficulty with OOXML. That alone should remind all of us of an all too well known pattern: the format wars. It&#8217;s made a come-back ever since 2007, it will get sneaker, although less flamboyant in 2009.</li> +<li>Microsoft is changing. Yes you read that well, on this blog. I sincerely think that there is an old guard and a new guard in Microsoft. I also think that this company is becoming more and more like any other big business: people will be fired by the thousands, and that does not make me happy. But while some of the teams there want to play a normal game, most of the people who call the shots don&#8217;t want to do that; hence friction will be in the air. I don&#8217;t really expect to see a visible schism inside Microsoft happening before 2011-2012, but it will be interesting to watch what will be going on in 2009 on this issue.</li> +</ul> +<p><span class="Apple-style-span">Resolutions</span> +<ul> +<li>This year, I promess: I will make money. I swear. Tons of money. Yeah, right. </li> +<li> I&#8217;ll get greener. I don&#8217;t have a car, happen to eat organic food very frequently, recycle my trash, but there are many other ways I can contribute to save the planet.</li> +<li>That&#8217;s it, you caught me right there: <span class="Apple-style-span">I will come back on GNU/Linux. </span>What this means is that in my craziest deams, I will have a real workstation with Linux, and a nice MacBook(Pro?) running OS X. Aside DRM on iTunes which seems to stand on an EOL support ever since yesterday, Macs are pretty cool, both on hardware and software. But I miss Linux. I really do.</li> +<li>Using Linux, I will mostly use KDE 4. I tried it, configured it on several desktops and although it&#8217;s not fully completed, it rocks and it&#8217;s really impressive. You should give it a try.</li> +<li>Last but not least? Think hard about how not to annoy my readers.</li> +</ul> +<p><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></p> +<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=111&akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_111" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> +</p></p></p></content> + <author> + <name>Charles Schulz</name> + <uri>http://standardsandfreedom.net</uri> + </author> + <source> + <title type="html">Moved by Freedom - Powered by Standards » OOo Postings</title> + <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>2009-01-07T00:00:15+00:00</updated> + </source> + </entry> + + <entry xml:lang="en"> <title type="html">Migrating from Windows</title> <link href="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/01/04/migrating-from-windows/"/> <id>http://www.theopensourcerer.com/?p=606</id> @@ -170,7 +207,7 @@ <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>2009-01-06T18:00:18+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-01-07T00:00:18+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -310,7 +347,7 @@ <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>2009-01-06T06:00:15+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-01-07T00:00:15+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -470,7 +507,7 @@ <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>2009-01-06T06:00:15+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-01-07T00:00:15+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -498,34 +535,7 @@ <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>2009-01-06T18:00:18+00:00</updated> - </source> - </entry> - - <entry xml:lang="en"> - <title type="html">OpenOffice.org for the US Federal Government?</title> - <link href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/922"/> - <id>http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=922</id> - <updated>2008-12-09T16:44:46+00:00</updated> - <content type="html"><p>Suggestions have appeared that the United States Federal Government could save enormous amounts of money by abandoning the purchase of licenses for several major desktop software applications.</p> -<p>As the single largest customer of Microsoft&#8217;s Windows, MS Office, and other programs, the feds are clearly spending a lot on software licenses. In this time of unprecedented budget difficulties, no stone should be left unturned in the quest for saving costs and cutting back. Thus, the suggestion that <a href="http://blogs.pcworld.com/communityvoices/archives/2008/06/your_second_eco.html">US federal offices migrate from Microsoft Office to OpenOffice.org</a>.</p> -<p>PC World calls this &#8220;your second economic stimulus check.&#8221;</p> -<p>Phil Shapiro writes:</p> -<blockquote><p>One of Obama&#8217;s first executive acts may be to standardize all Federal offices to <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/">OpenOffice.org</a></p> -<p>OpenOffice is free, robust, stable and more than sufficient for 99 percent of government work. If any particular government office requires Microsoft Office, they&#8217;ll be able to purchase it &#8212; after explaining in a few sentences why OpenOffice is insufficient for their needs.</p> -<p>What do you get when all Federal offices standardize on OpenOffice? The effect of this is a second economic stimulus check. You get increased productivity at lower cost. Scratch that. You get increased productivity at no-cost.</p></blockquote> -<p>Does Shapiro have any evidence this might happen? Not that I am aware of, but it makes for a good thought experiment, nonetheless. And maybe saving tens or hundreds of millions of dollars doesn&#8217;t look like much in this age of $700 billion bailouts, but on the other hand, every small act counts.</p> -<p>Other countries have taken this step already, increasing the necessity of adapting to remain competitive: &#8220;100 million students in Brazil will have several years more experience using free software than students in the United States.&#8221;</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>2009-01-02T06:00:16+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-01-07T00:00:18+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> File [changed]: index.html Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/index.html?r1=1.1370&r2=1.1371 Delta lines: +34 -24 --------------------- --- index.html 2009-01-06 17:59:35+0000 1.1370 +++ index.html 2009-01-06 23:59:30+0000 1.1371 @@ -37,8 +37,41 @@ <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: January 06, 2009 06:00 PM GMT</em></p> +<p><em>Bloggings on marketing topics by project members - see <a href="#disclaimer">disclaimer</a>.<br />Last updated: January 07, 2009 12:00 AM GMT</em></p> +<h2>January 06, 2009</h2> +<h3> +<a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net"; title="Moved by Freedom - Powered by Standards » OOo Postings"> +Charles Schulz</a> : +<a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/01/07/predictions-resolutions/";> +Predictions & Resolutions</a> +</h3> +<p> +<p>The time of the year for predictions started in December, the time of resolutions started a few days ago. Let’s tie those together in this post…<span class="Apple-style-span">Predictions:</span> +<ul> +<li> It will be a great year for Free & Open Source Software. I know it’s been written several times that because of dwindling I.T. budgets resulting from the global crisis money would be less spent on expensive licensing, but I do buy into this theory. However it’s certainly not the only explanation: Free Software gets better, Microsoft is losing its grip on the desktop (yet tries hard to come back with Silverlight and other initiatives), and applications go in the cloud.</li> +<li>Talking about the cloud, we will see this trend going. But there’s a paradox in this pattern: do not believe that people only need a browser and do not pay attention to their actual desktop. They do, and they want a nice user experience, bells and whistles that do not actually annoy them, and fewer glitches.</li> +<li>It’s been a reality in 2008, and will get even more obvious by 2009: consumers dictate what they want as an user experience, corporate (office) computing follows, just the opposite as what was going on in the eighties. But perhaps a better way of putting it is that those lines defined by mom and pop marketing concepts are blurring. </li> +<li>Office computing, the good old days: Microsoft seems to have some trouble implementing ODF. But they claim to have no difficulty with OOXML. That alone should remind all of us of an all too well known pattern: the format wars. It’s made a come-back ever since 2007, it will get sneaker, although less flamboyant in 2009.</li> +<li>Microsoft is changing. Yes you read that well, on this blog. I sincerely think that there is an old guard and a new guard in Microsoft. I also think that this company is becoming more and more like any other big business: people will be fired by the thousands, and that does not make me happy. But while some of the teams there want to play a normal game, most of the people who call the shots don’t want to do that; hence friction will be in the air. I don’t really expect to see a visible schism inside Microsoft happening before 2011-2012, but it will be interesting to watch what will be going on in 2009 on this issue.</li> +</ul> +<p><span class="Apple-style-span">Resolutions</span> +<ul> +<li>This year, I promess: I will make money. I swear. Tons of money. Yeah, right. </li> +<li> I’ll get greener. I don’t have a car, happen to eat organic food very frequently, recycle my trash, but there are many other ways I can contribute to save the planet.</li> +<li>That’s it, you caught me right there: <span class="Apple-style-span">I will come back on GNU/Linux. </span>What this means is that in my craziest deams, I will have a real workstation with Linux, and a nice MacBook(Pro?) running OS X. Aside DRM on iTunes which seems to stand on an EOL support ever since yesterday, Macs are pretty cool, both on hardware and software. But I miss Linux. I really do.</li> +<li>Using Linux, I will mostly use KDE 4. I tried it, configured it on several desktops and although it’s not fully completed, it rocks and it’s really impressive. You should give it a try.</li> +<li>Last but not least? Think hard about how not to annoy my readers.</li> +</ul> +<p><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></p> +<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=111&akst_action=share-this"; title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_111" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> +</p></p></p></p> +<p> +<em><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/01/07/predictions-resolutions/";>by Charles at January 06, 2009 10:10 PM GMT</a></em> +</p> +<br /> +<hr /> +<br /> <h2>January 04, 2009</h2> <h3> <a href="http://www.theopensourcerer.com"; title="The Open Sourcerer » OpenOffice.org"> @@ -447,29 +480,6 @@ <br /> <hr /> <br /> -<h2>December 09, 2008</h2> -<h3> -<a href="http://www.solidoffice.com"; title="SolidOffice » OpenOffice.org"> -Benjamin Horst</a> : -<a href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/922";> -OpenOffice.org for the US Federal Government?</a> -</h3> -<p> -<p>Suggestions have appeared that the United States Federal Government could save enormous amounts of money by abandoning the purchase of licenses for several major desktop software applications.</p> -<p>As the single largest customer of Microsoft’s Windows, MS Office, and other programs, the feds are clearly spending a lot on software licenses. In this time of unprecedented budget difficulties, no stone should be left unturned in the quest for saving costs and cutting back. Thus, the suggestion that <a href="http://blogs.pcworld.com/communityvoices/archives/2008/06/your_second_eco.html";>US federal offices migrate from Microsoft Office to OpenOffice.org</a>.</p> -<p>PC World calls this “your second economic stimulus check.”</p> -<p>Phil Shapiro writes:</p> -<blockquote><p>One of Obama’s first executive acts may be to standardize all Federal offices to <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/";>OpenOffice.org</a></p> -<p>OpenOffice is free, robust, stable and more than sufficient for 99 percent of government work. If any particular government office requires Microsoft Office, they’ll be able to purchase it — after explaining in a few sentences why OpenOffice is insufficient for their needs.</p> -<p>What do you get when all Federal offices standardize on OpenOffice? The effect of this is a second economic stimulus check. You get increased productivity at lower cost. Scratch that. You get increased productivity at no-cost.</p></blockquote> -<p>Does Shapiro have any evidence this might happen? Not that I am aware of, but it makes for a good thought experiment, nonetheless. And maybe saving tens or hundreds of millions of dollars doesn’t look like much in this age of $700 billion bailouts, but on the other hand, every small act counts.</p> -<p>Other countries have taken this step already, increasing the necessity of adapting to remain competitive: “100 million students in Brazil will have several years more experience using free software than students in the United States.”</p></p> -<p> -<em><a href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/922";>by Benjamin Horst at December 09, 2008 04:44 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=1.1363&r2=1.1364 Delta lines: +1 -1 ------------------- --- opml.xml 2009-01-06 17:59:35+0000 1.1363 +++ opml.xml 2009-01-06 23:59:30+0000 1.1364 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ <opml version="1.1"> <head> <title>Marketing Planet</title> - <dateModified>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:00:29 +0000</dateModified> + <dateModified>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:00:23 +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=1.587&r2=1.588 Delta lines: +25 -15 --------------------- --- rss10.xml 2009-01-04 23:59:47+0000 1.587 +++ rss10.xml 2009-01-06 23:59:30+0000 1.588 @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ <items> <rdf:Seq> + <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/01/07/predictions-resolutions/"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/?p=606"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=949"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=943"; /> @@ -32,11 +33,34 @@ <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=613"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/12/11/protect-innovation-dont-use-proprietary-software-and-other-advent-niceties/"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/3bf70cd3d5faaef2" /> - <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=922"; /> </rdf:Seq> </items> </channel> +<item rdf:about="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/01/07/predictions-resolutions/";> + <title>Charles Schulz: Predictions & Resolutions</title> + <link>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/01/07/predictions-resolutions/</link> + <content:encoded><p>The time of the year for predictions started in December, the time of resolutions started a few days ago. Let&#8217;s tie those together in this post&#8230;<span class="Apple-style-span">Predictions:</span> +<ul> +<li> It will be a great year for Free &amp; Open Source Software. I know it&#8217;s been written several times that because of dwindling I.T. budgets resulting from the global crisis money would be less spent on expensive licensing, but I do buy into this theory. However it&#8217;s certainly not the only explanation: Free Software gets better, Microsoft is losing its grip on the desktop (yet tries hard to come back with Silverlight and other initiatives), and applications go in the cloud.</li> +<li>Talking about the cloud, we will see this trend going. But there&#8217;s a paradox in this pattern: do not believe that people only need a browser and do not pay attention to their actual desktop. They do, and they want a nice user experience, bells and whistles that do not actually annoy them, and fewer glitches.</li> +<li>It&#8217;s been a reality in 2008, and will get even more obvious by 2009: consumers dictate what they want as an user experience, corporate (office) computing follows, just the opposite as what was going on in the eighties. But perhaps a better way of putting it is that those lines defined by mom and pop marketing concepts are blurring. </li> +<li>Office computing, the good old days: Microsoft seems to have some trouble implementing ODF. But they claim to have no difficulty with OOXML. That alone should remind all of us of an all too well known pattern: the format wars. It&#8217;s made a come-back ever since 2007, it will get sneaker, although less flamboyant in 2009.</li> +<li>Microsoft is changing. Yes you read that well, on this blog. I sincerely think that there is an old guard and a new guard in Microsoft. I also think that this company is becoming more and more like any other big business: people will be fired by the thousands, and that does not make me happy. But while some of the teams there want to play a normal game, most of the people who call the shots don&#8217;t want to do that; hence friction will be in the air. I don&#8217;t really expect to see a visible schism inside Microsoft happening before 2011-2012, but it will be interesting to watch what will be going on in 2009 on this issue.</li> +</ul> +<p><span class="Apple-style-span">Resolutions</span> +<ul> +<li>This year, I promess: I will make money. I swear. Tons of money. Yeah, right. </li> +<li> I&#8217;ll get greener. I don&#8217;t have a car, happen to eat organic food very frequently, recycle my trash, but there are many other ways I can contribute to save the planet.</li> +<li>That&#8217;s it, you caught me right there: <span class="Apple-style-span">I will come back on GNU/Linux. </span>What this means is that in my craziest deams, I will have a real workstation with Linux, and a nice MacBook(Pro?) running OS X. Aside DRM on iTunes which seems to stand on an EOL support ever since yesterday, Macs are pretty cool, both on hardware and software. But I miss Linux. I really do.</li> +<li>Using Linux, I will mostly use KDE 4. I tried it, configured it on several desktops and although it&#8217;s not fully completed, it rocks and it&#8217;s really impressive. You should give it a try.</li> +<li>Last but not least? Think hard about how not to annoy my readers.</li> +</ul> +<p><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></p> +<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=111&akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_111" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> +</p></p></p></content:encoded> + <dc:date>2009-01-06T22:10:36+00:00</dc:date> +</item> <item rdf:about="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/?p=606";> <title>Alan Lord: Migrating from Windows</title> <link>http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/01/04/migrating-from-windows/</link> @@ -286,19 +310,5 @@ <dc:date>2008-12-11T15:54:39+00:00</dc:date> <dc:creator>Marcus Lange</dc:creator> </item> -<item rdf:about="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=922";> - <title>Benjamin Horst: OpenOffice.org for the US Federal Government?</title> - <link>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/922</link> - <content:encoded><p>Suggestions have appeared that the United States Federal Government could save enormous amounts of money by abandoning the purchase of licenses for several major desktop software applications.</p> -<p>As the single largest customer of Microsoft&#8217;s Windows, MS Office, and other programs, the feds are clearly spending a lot on software licenses. In this time of unprecedented budget difficulties, no stone should be left unturned in the quest for saving costs and cutting back. Thus, the suggestion that <a href="http://blogs.pcworld.com/communityvoices/archives/2008/06/your_second_eco.html">US federal offices migrate from Microsoft Office to OpenOffice.org</a>.</p> -<p>PC World calls this &#8220;your second economic stimulus check.&#8221;</p> -<p>Phil Shapiro writes:</p> -<blockquote><p>One of Obama&#8217;s first executive acts may be to standardize all Federal offices to <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/">OpenOffice.org</a></p> -<p>OpenOffice is free, robust, stable and more than sufficient for 99 percent of government work. If any particular government office requires Microsoft Office, they&#8217;ll be able to purchase it &#8212; after explaining in a few sentences why OpenOffice is insufficient for their needs.</p> -<p>What do you get when all Federal offices standardize on OpenOffice? The effect of this is a second economic stimulus check. You get increased productivity at lower cost. Scratch that. You get increased productivity at no-cost.</p></blockquote> -<p>Does Shapiro have any evidence this might happen? Not that I am aware of, but it makes for a good thought experiment, nonetheless. And maybe saving tens or hundreds of millions of dollars doesn&#8217;t look like much in this age of $700 billion bailouts, but on the other hand, every small act counts.</p> -<p>Other countries have taken this step already, increasing the necessity of adapting to remain competitive: &#8220;100 million students in Brazil will have several years more experience using free software than students in the United States.&#8221;</p></content:encoded> - <dc:date>2008-12-09T16:44:46+00:00</dc:date> -</item> </rdf:RDF> File [changed]: rss20.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/rss20.xml?r1=1.587&r2=1.588 Delta lines: +25 -15 --------------------- --- rss20.xml 2009-01-04 23:59:47+0000 1.587 +++ rss20.xml 2009-01-06 23:59:31+0000 1.588 @@ -8,6 +8,31 @@ <description>Marketing Planet - http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/</description> <item> + <title>Charles Schulz: Predictions & Resolutions</title> + <guid>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/01/07/predictions-resolutions/</guid> + <link>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/01/07/predictions-resolutions/</link> + <description><p>The time of the year for predictions started in December, the time of resolutions started a few days ago. Let&#8217;s tie those together in this post&#8230;<span class="Apple-style-span">Predictions:</span> +<ul> +<li> It will be a great year for Free &amp; Open Source Software. I know it&#8217;s been written several times that because of dwindling I.T. budgets resulting from the global crisis money would be less spent on expensive licensing, but I do buy into this theory. However it&#8217;s certainly not the only explanation: Free Software gets better, Microsoft is losing its grip on the desktop (yet tries hard to come back with Silverlight and other initiatives), and applications go in the cloud.</li> +<li>Talking about the cloud, we will see this trend going. But there&#8217;s a paradox in this pattern: do not believe that people only need a browser and do not pay attention to their actual desktop. They do, and they want a nice user experience, bells and whistles that do not actually annoy them, and fewer glitches.</li> +<li>It&#8217;s been a reality in 2008, and will get even more obvious by 2009: consumers dictate what they want as an user experience, corporate (office) computing follows, just the opposite as what was going on in the eighties. But perhaps a better way of putting it is that those lines defined by mom and pop marketing concepts are blurring. </li> +<li>Office computing, the good old days: Microsoft seems to have some trouble implementing ODF. But they claim to have no difficulty with OOXML. That alone should remind all of us of an all too well known pattern: the format wars. It&#8217;s made a come-back ever since 2007, it will get sneaker, although less flamboyant in 2009.</li> +<li>Microsoft is changing. Yes you read that well, on this blog. I sincerely think that there is an old guard and a new guard in Microsoft. I also think that this company is becoming more and more like any other big business: people will be fired by the thousands, and that does not make me happy. But while some of the teams there want to play a normal game, most of the people who call the shots don&#8217;t want to do that; hence friction will be in the air. I don&#8217;t really expect to see a visible schism inside Microsoft happening before 2011-2012, but it will be interesting to watch what will be going on in 2009 on this issue.</li> +</ul> +<p><span class="Apple-style-span">Resolutions</span> +<ul> +<li>This year, I promess: I will make money. I swear. Tons of money. Yeah, right. </li> +<li> I&#8217;ll get greener. I don&#8217;t have a car, happen to eat organic food very frequently, recycle my trash, but there are many other ways I can contribute to save the planet.</li> +<li>That&#8217;s it, you caught me right there: <span class="Apple-style-span">I will come back on GNU/Linux. </span>What this means is that in my craziest deams, I will have a real workstation with Linux, and a nice MacBook(Pro?) running OS X. Aside DRM on iTunes which seems to stand on an EOL support ever since yesterday, Macs are pretty cool, both on hardware and software. But I miss Linux. I really do.</li> +<li>Using Linux, I will mostly use KDE 4. I tried it, configured it on several desktops and although it&#8217;s not fully completed, it rocks and it&#8217;s really impressive. You should give it a try.</li> +<li>Last but not least? Think hard about how not to annoy my readers.</li> +</ul> +<p><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></p> +<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=111&akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_111" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> +</p></p></p></description> + <pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:10:36 +0000</pubDate> +</item> +<item> <title>Alan Lord: Migrating from Windows</title> <guid>http://www.theopensourcerer.com/?p=606</guid> <link>http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/01/04/migrating-from-windows/</link> @@ -273,21 +298,6 @@ <br /><a title="Page containing MD5SUM checksums" href="http://download.openoffice.org/300/md5sums.html">http://download.openoffice.org/300/md5sums.html</a></p></description> <pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:54:39 +0000</pubDate> </item> -<item> - <title>Benjamin Horst: OpenOffice.org for the US Federal Government?</title> - <guid>http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=922</guid> - <link>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/922</link> - <description><p>Suggestions have appeared that the United States Federal Government could save enormous amounts of money by abandoning the purchase of licenses for several major desktop software applications.</p> -<p>As the single largest customer of Microsoft&#8217;s Windows, MS Office, and other programs, the feds are clearly spending a lot on software licenses. In this time of unprecedented budget difficulties, no stone should be left unturned in the quest for saving costs and cutting back. Thus, the suggestion that <a href="http://blogs.pcworld.com/communityvoices/archives/2008/06/your_second_eco.html">US federal offices migrate from Microsoft Office to OpenOffice.org</a>.</p> -<p>PC World calls this &#8220;your second economic stimulus check.&#8221;</p> -<p>Phil Shapiro writes:</p> -<blockquote><p>One of Obama&#8217;s first executive acts may be to standardize all Federal offices to <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/">OpenOffice.org</a></p> -<p>OpenOffice is free, robust, stable and more than sufficient for 99 percent of government work. If any particular government office requires Microsoft Office, they&#8217;ll be able to purchase it &#8212; after explaining in a few sentences why OpenOffice is insufficient for their needs.</p> -<p>What do you get when all Federal offices standardize on OpenOffice? The effect of this is a second economic stimulus check. You get increased productivity at lower cost. Scratch that. You get increased productivity at no-cost.</p></blockquote> -<p>Does Shapiro have any evidence this might happen? Not that I am aware of, but it makes for a good thought experiment, nonetheless. And maybe saving tens or hundreds of millions of dollars doesn&#8217;t look like much in this age of $700 billion bailouts, but on the other hand, every small act counts.</p> -<p>Other countries have taken this step already, increasing the necessity of adapting to remain competitive: &#8220;100 million students in Brazil will have several years more experience using free software than students in the United States.&#8221;</p></description> - <pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:44:46 +0000</pubDate> -</item> </channel> </rss> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
