Graham Lauder wrote:
Agreed, Maybe our marketing, for 2.0 anyway, needs to shift from
"The Free Office Suite" to something like "Your most economical
upgrade" for windows users.
Or "Upgrade to open standards". "Upgrade" should be our new focus
rather the "Change". People are often fearful of change but not much
of Upgrade. The upgrade from MSO '97 to 2003 and even more to 12
is/will be, pretty substantial. I would suspect little difference in
the upgrade to OOo2.0
Brilliant. Not only does it overcome the "fear of the unknown," but it
also takes a poke at MS's shortcomings.
One of the sticking points is always the "Backup and Support" when
getting people to upgrade. We need to set up as a parallel to
INGOTs a "Certified Support Consultant" certificate and then list
those people on the website. A CSC would have achieved Gold INGOT
on OOo then taken another step to the support level. "Gold Plus" maybe.
This could be self fundable. Sun training do a course on SO7
administration and support but I'm not sure as to the level it works
at but I think there is case to be made for something like this to be
done in collaboration with Sun so that the certification would cover
both SO 8 and OOo 2.0
Again, brilliant. And, to be honest, it also helps people overcome the
skepticism that "something free can't be any good."
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Steven Shelton
Twilight Media & Design
www.TwilightMD.com
www.GLOAMING.us
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