Please excuse my top posting....
Hey...look on the bright side! According to my daily Information Week
e-mail, OpenOffice.org is a *snap* to deal with... :)
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When I read about Lotus Symphony, IBM's spanking new free office suite,
I was intrigued and decided to try it out during my lunch hour.
Unfortunately, it took most of that hour just to get through the
registration process.
Here's what to expect if you want to try Symphony:
1. Go to IBM's download page. Click on the "Free Download" button.
2. Choose which OS you use (Linux or Windows). Click on Continue.
3. Sign in with your IBM ID and password. Don't have one? What a
surprise! Click on "register now."
4. Type in an IBM ID, password, security question and answer, e-mail
address, and country/region of residence. Click on Continue.
5. Fill in the fields indicated with an asterisk, which includes
your first name, last name, daytime phone, company name ("But this is
for personal use!" Too bad), country/region, company street address, and
city, state, and ZIP code. Click Submit.
6. Phew! Thank you for registering with ibm.com. Click Continue.
7. Sign in with your new IBM ID and Password. Click Submit.
8. OK, finally! Here's a page titled "IBM Lotus Symphony Beta."
Agree to the license, and click "I confirm."
9. You can download the suite using IBM's Download Director (a Java
applet), or via your browser. If you want to use the latter, click on
the "download using http" link.
10. The "Download now" link will now initiate a browser-based
download. And you're a go!
Compare this to the process of downloading the OpenOffice.org office suite:
1. Go to the OpenOffice.org download page. Click on "get
openoffice.org."
2. Choose whether you want to select your operating system, order
the suite on CD, or download it via P2P.
3. Click on your preferred OS.
4. Click on "continue to download." And you're a go.
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:murb: [maarten brouwers] wrote:
Hi all,
It has been silent on this topic after some heavy discussion that I due
to a temporary status as unsubscribed to this list have missed. However,
I did receive some mails on the issue and have plans to spend some time
on it, thinking about it. I think it is a great opportunity to finally
put OOo on the map of a much larger audience.
Our current website is way too unfriendly to end users. However, to make
a new end-user website a success it is important to have good
requirements. I have added some requirements I thought are important to
the wiki page set up by Louis, but I hoped that many more of you would
follow.
I would like to see that the new redesign will be a design that is
something we can all be happy with presenting it to our brother in
architecture, your family member who works as a plumber, and your
grandmother, while not neglecting the specific demands of the community
(but to what extent is still open for discussion).
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/User_Pages_Requirements
Louis set us a deadline for the end of September, and maybe we can still
get something on paper that can help him convince the Sun team that it
is worth investing in (this is kind of how I interpreted his message)
before this deadline. Any contribution is welcome, but please try to
keep discussion free of flames (including bashing the collabnet
infrastructure (it is not about technologies)), and respect
opinions/ideas of anyone (although this should not withhold anyone from
restructuring/optimizing the requirements). Thanks!
g.,
Maarten
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