Oracle doesn't have experience marketing to joe everybody. At all. Adobe (bless their pointed little heads) does.
Not to mention, how many years has it been since PDFs started getting used widely? 10? 15? I'm afraid in advocating OOo you're advocating a dinosaur. Among hulking office suites running on fat clients, sure, OOo isn't bad at all. But the future isn't hulking office suites running on fat clients. It's web-based office suites. You'll have far better success pushing Google Docs or even Microsoft's Office on the Web than you will yet another program people have to install on their already-rickety fat-client OS's. Especially if they work in office environments where they're not allowed to install software - or use portable apps running on flash drives (yes, I know how your mind thinks!). And did you see what Facebook & Microsoft announced yesterday? Whoa. That's got the potential to be HUGE and drive many many more users to the cloud. http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/archives/202851.asp http://www.pcworld.com/article/194731/microsofts_docs_for_facebook_a_handson_tour.html You can keep fighting the battles of the past, or you can figure out how to embrace the future & make it as good as possible. Scott -- R. Scott Granneman [email protected] ~ www.granneman.com ~ granneman.tel Full list of publications @ http://www.granneman.com/publications My new book: Google Apps Deciphered @ http://www.granneman.com/books "The National Rifle Association says, 'Gun's don't kill people. People do'. But I think the gun helps." ---Eddie Izzard On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Robert Citek <[email protected]> wrote: > How did Adobe do it? I wouldn't be surprised if Oracle went that route. > > And it is what I do. > > Regards, > - Robert > > On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Scott Granneman <[email protected]> wrote: >> Good luck with that one! :) > > -- > Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) > Main page: http://www.cwelug.org > To post: [email protected] > To subscribe: [email protected] > To unsubscribe: [email protected] > More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug > -- Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug
