On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 2:06 PM, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: > I'm reading FUD, from the usual misinformed suspects, saying that the > "IBM donation to AOO is pure marketing fluff" and "IBM faked the > donation of the Symphony code" and "IBM did not donate anything". I > can certainly sympathize with leaders of communities that can only be > held together by irrational fears. It is not easy to maintain that > peak level of paranoia.
could that be someone who worked at Burson Marsteller ? am I thinking about the same Public Relations specialist? A PR guy being a master of spin? surely some mistake.... (sarcasm) http://pages.citebite.com/k9g2s1t6neji "history has shown that the proprietary StarOffice and Oracle Open Office have never been able to generate any visible turnover (and have not attracted a single company)" (...) "None of these companies – some of them very large, up to 100.000 seats – ever asked for a license of Sun StarOffice." https://blogs.oracle.com/ontherecord/entry/staroffice_8_and_sixth_annual "The Sixth Annual eWEEK Excellence Award winners posted yesterday. This year almost 800 entries were submitted for the award, from which 19 winners in different categories were chosen. StarOffice 8 is the Productivity Applications category winner." http://philwilson.org/blog/2006/07/bristol-adopts-odf "Bristol City Council has joined the ODF Alliance, The Council already uses StarOffice instead of Microsoft Office " "Largest implementation of Sun's StarOffice office productivity suite in the UK retail sector" http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/news-releases/jessops-develops-new-point-of-sale-and-desktop-infrastructure-to-achieve-2m-pounds-sterling-cost-saving-154678395.html "By centralising our POS management and moving to StarOffice, we will not only save money, we will have a centralised view of each and every Jessops store across the UK. " India insurance firm moves 10,000 seats to StarOffice http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/02/06/1075854037075.html " Banca Popolare di Milano 4,500 SUSE Linux desktops with a Mozilla web browser, web client for Lotus Notes, * Sun’s StarOffice suite*, and a Java-based custom suite of banking applications in its 500 branch offices." HDFC Bank uses StarOffice http://computer.financialexpress.com/20050228/market01.shtml So how does this compare to claims that "None of these companies ever asked for a license of Sun StarOffice." ?? and "not a single company" Wonder how anyone still takes him seriously... FC -- During times of Universal Deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act - George Orwell
