On Sun, 08 Mar 2009 17:03:46 -0600, Jonathon Coombes
<[email protected]> wrote:
On Sun, 2009-03-08 at 19:52 +0000, John McCreesh wrote:
Following the recent request for help providing a record of OOo usage in
Norway
http://marketing.openoffice.org/servlets/BrowseList?list=dev&by=thread&from=2199442
we have been asked for the same information for Australia: to produce
evidence that OpenOffice.org was a well known name in Australia,
particularly among consumers, before 2008; or any data on the as the
number of downloads or distribution of CD's of OpenOffice to users in
Australia.
Can anyone help please?
Thanks - John
The biggest impact of OpenOffice.org in Australia was probably the
choice of the National Archives to use ODF as the standard format. They
implemented conversion software that is now available as a framework for
others to convert documents.
Another big implementer in terms of business, was with DeBortoli Wines.
This was one of the strongest moves into the OpenOffice.org arena in
business and after initial teething problems, have had a lot of success
with it.
I have personally dealt with a large range of businesses and
organisations looking at using OpenOffice.org within there day to day
procedures. Most are small business or non-profit organisations and are
looking for alternatives that can help them do what they need without
the larger overheads of similar commercial software.
In terms of distribution of cd's etc, that I don't have many figures on,
but I do know that it is given away on Software Freedom Day and many
other open source events usually as part of the TheOpenCD project.
Regards
Jonathon
Hi Jonathan, I think we are looking not for implementations but for
publications, and public proof that OpenOffice.org is recognized and
linked to the office suite product. Any australian publication running
this, or public adds that you can pull out from ZDnet australia? or
Australian magazines carring articles about showing what OOo is all about?
I guess paper proof is better than digital proof but still something that
could work on those lines.
--
Alexandro Colorado
CoLeader of OpenOffice.org ES
http://es.openoffice.org
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