I have also gone into the http://enterprise.siemens.com/open and found that is not related to open source and open office project, only it is creating confusion in open source/free software community as they have used word open which is not even related to freedom/liberty for their solutions. As it is confusing with name OpenOffice , therefore we should raise this issue. Sharad Kukreti Alex Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 10:16:29 Alexandro Colorado wrote: > Hi anyone read about Siemens HiPath OpenOffice, I am still having a hard > time defining what it is and if it at any point has to do with > OpenOffice.org or not. > > www.siemens.co.uk/openoffice > > I would really want to get more input from this product that Siemen > released and if there could be any issues with the branding.
Looking at their site, and remembering Siemens roots (they started out making PABX telephone systems), this seems to be a very fancy PIM and communications application. It seems to aim to integrate every communication medium that a business (specifically an SME) uses into a single desktop interface. It does not appear to be a productivity suite in the sense of MSO or OO.o (in fact, there appears to be no office suite - word-processor, spreadsheet etc. - component there at all. That would be in keeping with Siemens' traditional business. As for branding/copyright, that would be a matter for the legal people, although the fact they've run the words "open" and "office" together, as do we, could be an issue. -- Alex Fisher Co-Lead, CD-ROM Project OpenOffice.org Marketing Community Contact Australia/New Zealand http://distribution.openoffice.org/cdrom/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
