>>>>> On Wed, 23 Jun 2010 17:06:29 +0300, Lars Nooden >>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 16:17 +0300, Lars Nooden wrote: >>> Anyway, the world has moved on from closed, proprietary office >>> formats. > On 6/23/10 4:43 PM, Ian wrote: >> Not fast enough! > If, as a marketing effort, the details of any barriers to OOo adoption > are sought, collected, and summarized, then debugging becomes that > much easier. There are not really any technical barriers and have > not been for a long time. This is simply not true. Not having high quality import and (export) filters is *the* technical barrier. Or are you saying a better import filter could be achieved, but it is not worth the trouble!?!?! > There are a lot of competency, skill or social barriers > remaining in some dug-in areas. In the cases where > there were no barriers, then we have expanded the user > base. >> ... the cloud ... > LOL. That's not an excuse to wait and do nothing. >> That is not going to happen in a large government department where >> the users have absolutely no say in what gets installed on the >> network. > It will in the departments where the users *do* have say in what gets > installed. Look I am trying to convince my department and my University to move to OO, or at least to move to ODF, but there is the henn and egg problem: since 99 % of documents send out are in doc binary you need a almost perfect import filter. > Also, in the departments where there are competent IT staff, the moves > are already being made. Yes, the reality is that there are lots of the > other kind, especially malicious ones, but they are barriers that can be > dealt with if identified. That is a tiny problem. > Obviously, then, we are in agreement that the existing > work on the filters for legacy document formats has > been fruitful. Now is not the time to stop moving > forward from the old formats to ODF. Nobody says this, but if you don't have a good doc export filter, an OO user might not be able to share documents with his/hers colleagues. Ironically the only good news is that MS 2007 has odt export filter, not too good but useable. So maybe the sad conclusion is: only if there is a sufficient base of MS word 2007 users, people might start to use ODT and then in the long term OO, but it would be much faster with better OO import export filters. Uwe --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
