On of the issues about OOo marketing I have not fully understood is that OpenOffice development plans are to some extent controlled by StarOffice needs. And they seem to be focusing on business.
Maybe there is a separate StarOffice marketing arm that needs to be lobbied ? David On Thursday 25 May 2006 12:24 am, Bruce D'Arcus wrote: > On 5/23/06, Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there someone one might write to about the importance of this task? > > I think if the coding team understood (a) the extent to which current > > bibliographic functions block adoption by academics, and (b) the > > importance of educational markets in adoption of new software, > > then there'd be a somewhat different valuation of priorities (e.g., a > > native SQLite driver would be great, but I doubt we'll pick up a whole > > lot of new users that way!). > > We know who to talk to, and have. > > However, you are assuming above the same thing that I once assumed: > that large corporations like Sun care about this market. I don¨t think > they do. If you were a cash-strapped corporation looking for > oppoertunities to make more cash, would you prioritize edu? > > Not trying to be a downer; just to give a sense of what we are up against. > > Bruce > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ------------------- David N. Wilson Co-Project Lead for the Bibliographic OpenOffice Project http://bibliographic.openoffice.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
