User: jpmcc Date: 2009-03-31 17:01:43+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 Mar 31 18:00:13 BST 2009 File Changes: Directory: /marketing/www/planet/ ================================= File [changed]: atom.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/atom.xml?r1=1.1691&r2=1.1692 Delta lines: +38 -43 --------------------- --- atom.xml 2009-03-31 11:01:37+0000 1.1691 +++ atom.xml 2009-03-31 17:01:39+0000 1.1692 @@ -5,10 +5,34 @@ <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>2009-03-31T11:00:25+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-03-31T17:00:29+00:00</updated> <generator uri="http://www.planetplanet.org/";>Planet/2.0 +http://www.planetplanet.org</generator> <entry xml:lang="en"> + <title type="html">Recession Helps Drive Open Source Growth</title> + <link href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/1082"/> + <id>http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=1082</id> + <updated>2009-03-31T14:57:21+00:00</updated> + <content type="html"><p>It&#8217;s long been common sense that economic downturns aid some businesses, even while harming most others. Beneficiaries tend to include discount retailers, as shoppers shift downmarket, as well as similar cost-conscious products and services that can replace more expensive alternatives.</p> +<p>Because of its price benefits, open source is now benefiting in this way, writes Eweek, in <a href="http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Linux-and-Open-Source/Why-Recession-is-Causing-Enterprises-to-Rethink-Open-Source-Strategy-877743/?kc=rss"><em>Why Recession Is Causing Enterprises to Rethink Open-Source Strategy</em></a>.</p> +<p>Author Chris Preimesberger writes:</p> +<blockquote><p>Budget limitations and continued improvement in software and associated services are making open-source software alternatives such as MySQL, SUSE Linux, OpenOffice.org and plenty of others look mighty good to IT managers and CFOs.</p></blockquote> +<p>Interviewing Matt Asay from Alfresco, the article asserts that open source is starting to be seen as the safe, default option that will save a manager&#8217;s job, whereas in the past it was often considered new, untested and risky.</p> +<p>Is this evidence of an arriving tipping point?</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>2009-03-31T17:00:27+00:00</updated> + </source> + </entry> + + <entry xml:lang="en"> <title type="html">Measuring OpenOffice.orgâs US Userbase</title> <link href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/1079"/> <id>http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=1079</id> @@ -30,7 +54,7 @@ <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> - 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<updated>2009-03-31T11:00:17+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-03-31T17:00:16+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -234,7 +258,7 @@ <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>2009-03-31T11:00:17+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-03-31T17:00:16+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -261,7 +285,7 @@ <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>2009-03-30T17:00:32+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-03-31T17:00:27+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -287,7 +311,7 @@ <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>2009-03-30T17:00:32+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-03-31T17:00:27+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -308,7 +332,7 @@ <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>2009-03-31T11:00:17+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-03-31T17:00:16+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -435,7 +459,7 @@ <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>2009-03-31T11:00:17+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-03-31T17:00:16+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -456,7 +480,7 @@ <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>2009-03-31T11:00:17+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-03-31T17:00:16+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -523,7 +547,7 @@ <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>2009-03-30T17:00:32+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-03-31T17:00:27+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -545,7 +569,7 @@ <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>2009-03-31T11:00:17+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-03-31T17:00:16+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -569,36 +593,7 @@ <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>2009-03-30T17:00:32+00:00</updated> - </source> - </entry> - - <entry xml:lang="en"> - <title type="html">Did Microsoft make Firefox?</title> - <link href="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/03/11/did-microsoft-make-firefox/"/> - <id>http://www.theopensourcerer.com/?p=906</id> - <updated>2009-03-11T08:58:16+00:00</updated> - <content type="html"><p>This <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10192771-16.html">post</a> by Matt Assay discussing how we got to a competitive browser market got me thinking. (Dangerous I know, but bear with me.)</p> -<blockquote><p>&#8230; I suppose the truly intriguing thing is not that we have a competitive market for Web browsers again, but how it happened. Baker told me recently that <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10167433-16.html">Firefox is &#8220;an anomaly&#8221;</a> because it managed to beat back overwhelming Microsoft market share. Can we do it again?</p> -<p>What was the tipping point when Microsoft&#8217;s Internet Explorer team finally had to start paying attention to Mozilla&#8217;s Firefox browser? And when did Google decide that it couldn&#8217;t subsist on Firefox&#8217;s roadmap and instead had to forge its own browser, Chrome?</p></blockquote> -<p><a href="http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/firefox-logo-wordmark-300x114.png" alt="Mozilla Firefox" title="Mozilla Firefox" width="300" height="114" align="right" /></a>My own take on this is it was all Microsoft&#8217;s own doing. Think about it. Their browser, Internet Explorer [and more specifically IE6], was locked into the operating system that ran an almost every PC sold. So for Mozilla&#8217;s <a href="http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/">Firefox</a> browser to take more than a <a href="http://marketshare.hitslink.com/firefox-market-share.aspx?qprid=0&sample=28">20% market share</a> is pretty staggering. If you use Windows (as certainly a few years ago almost everyone did) you already have a browser on that Windows PC so why go and download another one? It isn&#8217;t quite the same for <a href="http://www.openoffice.org">OpenOffice.org</a> or <a href="http://www.gimp.org/">Gimp</a> for example. You are having to make a decision about acquiring an Office Application Suite or an Image Editor; whether you pay for commercial code or use FOSS is your choice. But with the browser, you already have one.</p> -<p>My conclusion to Matt&#8217;s question is that it comes down to just how bad IE6 really was. If it had been a half decent browser with acceptable support for the standards it was supposed to support then I don&#8217;t think Firefox, and possibly the entire FOSS ecosystem, would be as strong as it is today.</p> -<p>Presumably Microsoft <em>could</em> have patched and updated IE6 during the course of it&#8217;s life but they chose not to, and instead stuck to delivering a half-baked, non-compliant browser full of leaks and security holes and proprietary features that lead many unfortunate souls to build sites that only worked with Microsoft&#8217;s browser. </p> -<p>I think that it was the web development community that started this movement. Being <a href="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/01/22/joomla-hacking-menus-modules-articles-and-rings/">professionally</a> involved in helping Graphic Designers make websites work across browsers, I know just how <a href="http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=IE6+%2B+css"><strong>BAD</strong></a> IE6 really is when it comes to supporting standards. If it hadn&#8217;t been so terrible, or even got fixed, I don&#8217;t think the web developer community would have started using Firefox in the numbers that they did and then espousing it&#8217;s virtues with quite the same level of gusto.</p> -<p>Of course, as well as being a decent browser, there were many new and innovative ideas and features in Firefox, a huge extension and plug-in library and cross platform support too. But as &#8220;most&#8221; users of a browser are simply surfing, then if IE wasn&#8217;t such a <strong><em>pile of steaming poo</em></strong> in the first place I don&#8217;t think many consumers would have been inclined to change at all.</p> -<p>What do you think?</p> -<!-- 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/2009/03/11/did-microsoft-make-firefox/&title=Did+Microsoft+make+Firefox%3F" title="Add 'Did Microsoft make Firefox?' to Del.icio.us"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/delicious.png" title="Add 'Did Microsoft make Firefox?' to Del.icio.us" alt="Add 'Did Microsoft make Firefox?' to Del.icio.us" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/03/11/did-microsoft-make-firefox/&title=Did+Microsoft+make+Firefox%3F" title="Add 'Did Microsoft make Firefox?' to digg"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/digg.png" title="Add 'Did Microsoft make Firefox?' to digg" alt="Add 'Did Microsoft make Firefox?' to digg" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://www.technorati.com/faves?add=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/03/11/did-microsoft-make-firefox/" title="Add 'Did Microsoft make Firefox?' to Technorati"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/technorati.png" title="Add 'Did Microsoft make Firefox?' to Technorati" alt="Add 'Did Microsoft make Firefox?' to Technorati" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/03/11/did-microsoft-make-firefox/&title=Did+Microsoft+make+Firefox%3F" title="Add 'Did Microsoft make Firefox?' to Stumble Upon"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/stumbleupon.png" title="Add 'Did Microsoft make Firefox?' to Stumble Upon" alt="Add 'Did Microsoft make Firefox?' to Stumble Upon" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://www.google.com/bookmarks/mark?op=edit&output=popup&bkmk=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/03/11/did-microsoft-make-firefox/&title=Did+Microsoft+make+Firefox%3F" title="Add 'Did Microsoft make Firefox?' to Google Bookmarks"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/google.png" title="Add 'Did Microsoft make Firefox?' to Google Bookmarks" alt="Add 'Did Microsoft make Firefox?' to Google Bookmarks" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://www.bloglines.com/sub/http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/03/11/did-microsoft-make-firefox/" title="Add 'Did Microsoft make Firefox?' to Bloglines"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/bloglines.png" title="Add 'Did Microsoft make Firefox?' to Bloglines" alt="Add 'Did Microsoft make Firefox?' to Bloglines" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://slashdot.org/bookmark.pl?title=Did+Microsoft+make+Firefox%3F&url=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/03/11/did-microsoft-make-firefox/" title="Add 'Did Microsoft make Firefox?' to SlashDot"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/slashdot.png" title="Add 'Did Microsoft make Firefox?' to SlashDot" alt="Add 'Did Microsoft make Firefox?' 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>2009-03-24T00:00:29+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-03-31T17:00:27+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> File [changed]: index.html Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/index.html?r1=1.1698&r2=1.1699 Delta lines: +21 -25 --------------------- --- index.html 2009-03-31 11:01:37+0000 1.1698 +++ index.html 2009-03-31 17:01:39+0000 1.1699 @@ -36,8 +36,28 @@ <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: March 31, 2009 11:00 AM GMT</em></p> +<p><em>Bloggings on marketing topics by project members - see <a href="#disclaimer">disclaimer</a>.<br />Last updated: March 31, 2009 05:00 PM GMT</em></p> +<h2>March 31, 2009</h2> +<h3> +<a href="http://www.solidoffice.com"; title="SolidOffice » OpenOffice.org"> +Benjamin Horst</a> : +<a href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/1082";> +Recession Helps Drive Open Source Growth</a> +</h3> +<p> +<p>It’s long been common sense that economic downturns aid some businesses, even while harming most others. Beneficiaries tend to include discount retailers, as shoppers shift downmarket, as well as similar cost-conscious products and services that can replace more expensive alternatives.</p> +<p>Because of its price benefits, open source is now benefiting in this way, writes Eweek, in <a href="http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Linux-and-Open-Source/Why-Recession-is-Causing-Enterprises-to-Rethink-Open-Source-Strategy-877743/?kc=rss";><em>Why Recession Is Causing Enterprises to Rethink Open-Source Strategy</em></a>.</p> +<p>Author Chris Preimesberger writes:</p> +<blockquote><p>Budget limitations and continued improvement in software and associated services are making open-source software alternatives such as MySQL, SUSE Linux, OpenOffice.org and plenty of others look mighty good to IT managers and CFOs.</p></blockquote> +<p>Interviewing Matt Asay from Alfresco, the article asserts that open source is starting to be seen as the safe, default option that will save a manager’s job, whereas in the past it was often considered new, untested and risky.</p> +<p>Is this evidence of an arriving tipping point?</p></p> +<p> +<em><a href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/1082";>by Benjamin Horst at March 31, 2009 02:57 PM GMT</a></em> +</p> +<br /> +<hr /> +<br /> <h2>March 30, 2009</h2> <h3> <a href="http://www.solidoffice.com"; title="SolidOffice » OpenOffice.org"> @@ -527,30 +547,6 @@ <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/2009/03/11/did-microsoft-make-firefox/";> -Did Microsoft make Firefox?</a> -</h3> -<p> -<p>This <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10192771-16.html";>post</a> by Matt Assay discussing how we got to a competitive browser market got me thinking. (Dangerous I know, but bear with me.)</p> -<blockquote><p>… I suppose the truly intriguing thing is not that we have a competitive market for Web browsers again, but how it happened. Baker told me recently that <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10167433-16.html";>Firefox is “an anomaly”</a> because it managed to beat back overwhelming Microsoft market share. Can we do it again?</p> -<p>What was the tipping point when Microsoft’s Internet Explorer team finally had to start paying attention to Mozilla’s Firefox browser? And when did Google decide that it couldn’t subsist on Firefox’s roadmap and instead had to forge its own browser, Chrome?</p></blockquote> -<p><a href="http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/";><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/firefox-logo-wordmark-300x114.png"; alt="Mozilla Firefox" title="Mozilla Firefox" width="300" height="114" align="right" /></a>My own take on this is it was all Microsoft’s own doing. Think about it. Their browser, Internet Explorer [and more specifically IE6], was locked into the operating system that ran an almost every PC sold. So for Mozilla’s <a href="http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/";>Firefox</a> browser to take more than a <a href="http://marketshare.hitslink.com/firefox-market-share.aspx?qprid=0&sample=28";>20% market share</a> is pretty staggering. If you use Windows (as certainly a few years ago almost everyone did) you already have a browser on that Windows PC so why go and download another one? It isn’t quite the same for <a href="http://www.openoffice.org";>OpenOffice.org</a> or <a href="http://www.gimp.org/";>Gimp</a> for example. You are having to make a decision about acquiring an Office Application Suite or an Image Editor; whether you pay for commercial code or use FOSS is your choice. But with the browser, you already have one.</p> -<p>My conclusion to Matt’s question is that it comes down to just how bad IE6 really was. If it had been a half decent browser with acceptable support for the standards it was supposed to support then I don’t think Firefox, and possibly the entire FOSS ecosystem, would be as strong as it is today.</p> -<p>Presumably Microsoft <em>could</em> have patched and updated IE6 during the course of it’s life but they chose not to, and instead stuck to delivering a half-baked, non-compliant browser full of leaks and security holes and proprietary features that lead many unfortunate souls to build sites that only worked with Microsoft’s browser. </p> -<p>I think that it was the web development community that started this movement. Being <a href="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/01/22/joomla-hacking-menus-modules-articles-and-rings/";>professionally</a> involved in helping Graphic Designers make websites work across browsers, I know just how <a href="http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=IE6+%2B+css";><strong>BAD</strong></a> IE6 really is when it comes to supporting standards. If it hadn’t been so terrible, or even got fixed, I don’t think the web developer community would have started using Firefox in the numbers that they did and then espousing it’s virtues with quite the same level of gusto.</p> -<p>Of course, as well as being a decent browser, there were many new and innovative ideas and features in Firefox, a huge extension and plug-in library and cross platform support too. But as “most” users of a browser are simply surfing, then if IE wasn’t such a <strong><em>pile of steaming poo</em></strong> in the first place I don’t think many consumers would have been inclined to change at all.</p> -<p>What do you think?</p> -<!-- 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/2009/03/11/did-microsoft-make-firefox/&title=Did+Microsoft+make+Firefox%3F"; title="Add 'Did Microsoft make Firefox?' to Del.icio.us"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/delicious.png"; title="Add 'Did Microsoft make Firefox?' to Del.icio.us" alt="Add 'Did Microsoft make Firefox?' to Del.icio.us" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/03/11/did-microsoft-make-firefox/&title=Did+Microsoft+make+Firefox%3F"; title="Add 'Did Microsoft make Firefox?' to digg"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/digg.png"; 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Beneficiaries tend to include discount retailers, as shoppers shift downmarket, as well as similar cost-conscious products and services that can replace more expensive alternatives.</p> +<p>Because of its price benefits, open source is now benefiting in this way, writes Eweek, in <a href="http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Linux-and-Open-Source/Why-Recession-is-Causing-Enterprises-to-Rethink-Open-Source-Strategy-877743/?kc=rss"><em>Why Recession Is Causing Enterprises to Rethink Open-Source Strategy</em></a>.</p> +<p>Author Chris Preimesberger writes:</p> +<blockquote><p>Budget limitations and continued improvement in software and associated services are making open-source software alternatives such as MySQL, SUSE Linux, OpenOffice.org and plenty of others look mighty good to IT managers and CFOs.</p></blockquote> +<p>Interviewing Matt Asay from Alfresco, the article asserts that open source is starting to be seen as the safe, default option that will save a manager&#8217;s job, whereas in the past it was often considered new, untested and risky.</p> +<p>Is this evidence of an arriving tipping point?</p></content:encoded> + <dc:date>2009-03-31T14:57:21+00:00</dc:date> +</item> <item rdf:about="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=1079";> <title>Benjamin Horst: Measuring OpenOffice.orgâs US Userbase</title> <link>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/1079</link> @@ -369,21 +380,5 @@ <p>Federal and state goverments are leveraging open source to provide services to their citizens as well as run their offices at a lower cost. 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Baker told me recently that <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10167433-16.html">Firefox is &#8220;an anomaly&#8221;</a> because it managed to beat back overwhelming Microsoft market share. Can we do it again?</p> -<p>What was the tipping point when Microsoft&#8217;s Internet Explorer team finally had to start paying attention to Mozilla&#8217;s Firefox browser? And when did Google decide that it couldn&#8217;t subsist on Firefox&#8217;s roadmap and instead had to forge its own browser, Chrome?</p></blockquote> -<p><a href="http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/firefox-logo-wordmark-300x114.png" alt="Mozilla Firefox" title="Mozilla Firefox" width="300" height="114" align="right" /></a>My own take on this is it was all Microsoft&#8217;s own doing. Think about it. Their browser, Internet Explorer [and more specifically IE6], was locked into the operating system that ran an almost every PC sold. So for Mozilla&#8217;s <a href="http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/">Firefox</a> browser to take more than a <a href="http://marketshare.hitslink.com/firefox-market-share.aspx?qprid=0&sample=28">20% market share</a> is pretty staggering. If you use Windows (as certainly a few years ago almost everyone did) you already have a browser on that Windows PC so why go and download another one? It isn&#8217;t quite the same for <a href="http://www.openoffice.org">OpenOffice.org</a> or <a href="http://www.gimp.org/">Gimp</a> for example. You are having to make a decision about acquiring an Office Application Suite or an Image Editor; whether you pay for commercial code or use FOSS is your choice. But with the browser, you already have one.</p> -<p>My conclusion to Matt&#8217;s question is that it comes down to just how bad IE6 really was. If it had been a half decent browser with acceptable support for the standards it was supposed to support then I don&#8217;t think Firefox, and possibly the entire FOSS ecosystem, would be as strong as it is today.</p> -<p>Presumably Microsoft <em>could</em> have patched and updated IE6 during the course of it&#8217;s life but they chose not to, and instead stuck to delivering a half-baked, non-compliant browser full of leaks and security holes and proprietary features that lead many unfortunate souls to build sites that only worked with Microsoft&#8217;s browser. </p> -<p>I think that it was the web development community that started this movement. 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Beneficiaries tend to include discount retailers, as shoppers shift downmarket, as well as similar cost-conscious products and services that can replace more expensive alternatives.</p> +<p>Because of its price benefits, open source is now benefiting in this way, writes Eweek, in <a href="http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Linux-and-Open-Source/Why-Recession-is-Causing-Enterprises-to-Rethink-Open-Source-Strategy-877743/?kc=rss"><em>Why Recession Is Causing Enterprises to Rethink Open-Source Strategy</em></a>.</p> +<p>Author Chris Preimesberger writes:</p> +<blockquote><p>Budget limitations and continued improvement in software and associated services are making open-source software alternatives such as MySQL, SUSE Linux, OpenOffice.org and plenty of others look mighty good to IT managers and CFOs.</p></blockquote> +<p>Interviewing Matt Asay from Alfresco, the article asserts that open source is starting to be seen as the safe, default option that will save a manager&#8217;s job, whereas in the past it was often considered new, untested and risky.</p> +<p>Is this evidence of an arriving tipping point?</p></description> + <pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:57:21 +0000</pubDate> +</item> +<item> <title>Benjamin Horst: Measuring OpenOffice.orgâs US Userbase</title> <guid>http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=1079</guid> <link>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/1079</link> @@ -351,23 +363,6 @@ <p>Federal and state goverments are leveraging open source to provide services to their citizens as well as run their offices at a lower cost. 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Baker told me recently that <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10167433-16.html">Firefox is &#8220;an anomaly&#8221;</a> because it managed to beat back overwhelming Microsoft market share. Can we do it again?</p> -<p>What was the tipping point when Microsoft&#8217;s Internet Explorer team finally had to start paying attention to Mozilla&#8217;s Firefox browser? And when did Google decide that it couldn&#8217;t subsist on Firefox&#8217;s roadmap and instead had to forge its own browser, Chrome?</p></blockquote> -<p><a href="http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/firefox-logo-wordmark-300x114.png" alt="Mozilla Firefox" title="Mozilla Firefox" width="300" height="114" align="right" /></a>My own take on this is it was all Microsoft&#8217;s own doing. Think about it. Their browser, Internet Explorer [and more specifically IE6], was locked into the operating system that ran an almost every PC sold. So for Mozilla&#8217;s <a href="http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/">Firefox</a> browser to take more than a <a href="http://marketshare.hitslink.com/firefox-market-share.aspx?qprid=0&sample=28">20% market share</a> is pretty staggering. If you use Windows (as certainly a few years ago almost everyone did) you already have a browser on that Windows PC so why go and download another one? It isn&#8217;t quite the same for <a href="http://www.openoffice.org">OpenOffice.org</a> or <a href="http://www.gimp.org/">Gimp</a> for example. You are having to make a decision about acquiring an Office Application Suite or an Image Editor; whether you pay for commercial code or use FOSS is your choice. But with the browser, you already have one.</p> -<p>My conclusion to Matt&#8217;s question is that it comes down to just how bad IE6 really was. 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