Dear Andrea, Greetings from Tata Motors!
Thank you for your reply & wish you a happy & a prosperous new year 2013. Please do not mind me asking but can you let me know your views on Libre Office (documentation foundation) & Open Office org (Apache foundation) As we are deciding to roll out Open source office tools to our employees, which do you feel would be more beneficial to a large business organizations. What about the security associated with the extensions of these tools are they safe, can they leak our professional info like those free android apps? We am trying to bring about the use of open source tools for productivity, creativity - traditionally possible with MS Office & Adobe in our company. If the Open Source usage drive is successful in one Tata company, it will then rapidly penetrate into our other 70 odd companies in India & the world. Have a pleasant day ahead Anand Vasappanavara 09552502340 Note: This Mail was sent with the help of Mozilla Thunderbird <http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/> , an Open Source Email Client. On 12/29/2012 5:51 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: anand.vasappanavara wrote: Greetings from Tata Motors! We are happy to note your foundation's work in developing open office tools for the world. We have been using your tools for my academic& personal activities from some time now. & would like to suggest their introduction for its use for professional work in our company. Thanks for your appreciation! I'm removing the security list from the recipients, since it is a confidential channel related to security incidents only. We would hence like to know the answers to the following question to acess the feasibility Sure. Just remember that my statements here, as virtually all communication on our mailing lists, do not constitute legal advice or official answers. For that, you should read, e.g., the full license text at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html or the source code. 1. What are the additional licensing, permissions requirements to be factored if any None (of course, I recommend that you read the license). 2. Can the employees use Open Office tools freely to perform their commercial work Yes, definitely. The Apache License is permissive and business-friendly, and it gives maximum freedom to the user. 3. Is there any risk of office data leaking via the internet while using the Open tools No. Services that connect to the Internet (such as the update notification service) do not disclose personal private data or documents data. 4. Are there any organizations where open office is ready used for professional work Yes, so many that we actually have trouble in keeping the list up-to-date... Anyway you can find an outdated list at http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Major_OpenOffice.org_Deployments 5. Are there any annual maintenance or up-gradation services which can be offered Sure, but not from this project directly. We do maintain a list of consultants at http://www.openoffice.org/bizdev/consultants.html but for corporate-grade support you might also be contacted by companies that employ full-time OpenOffice developers. Employees from these companies already read our mailing lists. You can also support the project by sponsoring development, or contributing developers or translators or other resources for QA or marketing... Feel free to write again (the "dev" list is enough) if you would like to know more about this. Regards, Andrea. ******************************************************************************************************************************************************** "This e-Mail may contain proprietary and confidential information and is sentfor the intended recipient(s) only. If, by an addressing or transmission error,this mail has been misdirected to you, you are requested to delete this mailimmediately. You are also hereby notified that any use, any form of reproduction, dissemination, copying, disclosure, modification, distribution and/or publication of this e-mail message,contents or its attachment(s) other than by its intended recipient(s) is strictly prohibited. Any opinions expressed in this email are those of the individual and not necessarily of the organization. Before opening attachment(s), please scan for viruses." ********************************************************************************************************************************************************
