Hello all.. Just by way of introduction, I'm a programmer by destiny, a code monkey by day job, and a QA person here on OOo by choice. I've been lurking on the Marketing list here for a week or two..
First off its cool to see so many people really excited about OOo and the potential impact it can make on the world. I'm glad to be a part of it. Years ago before I even thought about joining OOo, I had heard of and was excited by the project. From what I have read (and continue to read) OOo is a good replacement for Office. So I convinced my sister to try using it rather than Microsoft Office for her new home computer. She finally did it, but was disappointed and frustrated that there were so many things she couldn't do in Office, and that she kept running into bugs and such. She promptly went out and spent a couple hundred on Office. OOo was the 1.0 version at the time.. So I know things have gotten better since then (somewhat) but the basic issue remains. If users do not have pretty much the same experience as Office, if they are not free from having to worry about bugs, if OOo is not very close to as stable as Office, they're not going to use it. And even worse we've poisoned the opinion of a potential new user and all the people they would tell about it. It is my firm belief after going through a week or more of QA'ing bugs for the 2.0 version, that OOo is not ready to be widely disseminated. We need to get this code more stable, more bug free, in short, more comparable to Office before sending it out to the world. Firefox succeeds so well because it does everything that Internet Explorer does and more. People will, and do now, expect that of OOo too. We are not there yet. Close. But no Office. That said, I am here to do work and get OOo to that point, but perhaps we should be marketing to get developers and other contributors to the project to get it to the point of Office? Johnathan (haxwell) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
