The trends were definitely interesting, thanks for sharing that link!
I was very happy to see that in some countries, searches for
OpenOffice matched or even outnumbered searches for Microsoft Office.
I think this is how we are going to win it--one country, one niche,
one market at a time. When critical mass hits, we might even be
surprised at the particular time it comes.
One of the reasons I feel confident in the "100 million users" number
is because of all the Linux users who get it from repositories, as
you wrote. Add that to the downloads from openoffice.org and all the
other sites, the CDs distributed, and the peer-to-peer, and I would
not be surprised if our user base is higher than 100 million!
-Ben
On Oct 12, 2007, at 5:09 PM, NoOp wrote:
On 10/12/2007 07:15 AM, Benjamin Horst wrote:
I've converted my email of this morning into a blog post on the
subject. Comments and discussion are very welcome there: also, please
Digg the post to see how quickly we can start this meme!
http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/654
Thanks, Ben
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Re the 100 million: perhaps you should also add the customized linux
distros which include OOo; Debian, Ubuntu, Suse/Novell, etc.
You might also find Google's 'Trends' of interest:
<http://www.google.com/trends?q=microsoft+office%2C
+openoffice&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0>
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