Chris, I think that asking to choose between GDocs and OpenOffice is not the right question to ask. GDocs is sitting in its own class, disruptive (cloud based and for free). The question is more why OpenOffice over MS Office. MS Office recognized that fat clients might be a thing of the past at some point and are working on a web based solution. I think OpenOffice should try to strengthen the ties with GDocs (unless Oracle plans to come out with their own solution...), unless we want to invent the wheel again. On Thu 13/05/10 11:28 , Christoph Noack [email protected] sent: Hi everyone! OpenOffice.org is dead. My question: Was it alive? ;-) More seriously, when he looks at his table, he might be right. When I talked with John some time ago, he told me that we still have problems to be widely accepted in the USA. And what the guy, Christopher Dawson, talks about might be absolutely valid. There, Internet connections are quite common ... even for mobile users. And then people might feel the need to consume / edit documents on the go. Different technical and organizational preconditions cause different "perceived" needs. What does that mean? Either decide to adapt OpenOffice.org, or focus on those users who require different strengths for a software application. Or make clear that we have something which is more important ... up to your mind :-) What at least makes me feel a bit uncomfortable, that although being the "technology director of the [...] school district" he doesn't feel the need for freedom and choice. But maybe I don't really know what that means. Let's finally focus on his "interesting" picture he chose for his posting. Bye, Christoph Am Donnerstag, den 13.05.2010, 09:40 +0200 schrieb Cor Nouws: > > What do you guys feel > > Yes pls do reply in public and help him look further than his own > table-sheet ;-) > >
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