Dear OppenOffice, While I believe you are teh best of teh best ossice suite OpenOffice solution out there, I like to suggest a solution, I believe noone has really come up with and would be extremely welcome.
My Definition of office Suite: Office suite as a modular application that features a writer, a spreadsheet, a presentation, and a Database. Idealy it would also have a Webpage editor (which all office suits miss), and graphics/charts and email. Ways to acces office Suites: 1. Get expensive Office from Microsoft 2. Use a free Open Source one like, what I think is best: "OpenOffice". 3. Use a free or charge Internet application like ThinkFree or Zoho Problem situation: Now days more and more people have laptops and move and travel not only from one place to another, but also travel to different cities and countries. Some times, quite often, if traveling abroad, one may or not have access to internet or their own computer. What if you don't have your laptop with you or just not have a laptop, but a desktop?, what if the laptop got broken, or stolen? What to do to access office suites utilities and create files that work seamesly whether the application resides your computer or not? Solution: Have an application that comes in two versions: Download and Internet. For instance, let's have OpenOffice application available in your computer as a stand alone aplication as it is now, but also as an Internet application. It can also have full integration to any of your email, groups and chat services (Yahoo, Google, AOL, Raketu, etc) Adventages: 1. You are able to create office suite docs and files whether you have your computer with you or not, not matter where you are. 2. Yes you could use the "ways to access Office suite" above and figure out a way to work them out, but this is a ONE step solution, better yet whether you create the doc online or in your computer, it is always 100% compatible. 3. Yes, Windows will be comming up with this solution soon, but it will be expensive (you need to have Office installed to work up the full solution) and the new Internet Office will be mising most features and "modules". Better yet: Have the "site" that offer this solution offer some "limited" space for the documents and files you create like ThinkFree or Zohodo. You may keep the files there if you don't have a memory USB or you need to share them. Additionally, have the application have a Web page creator like NVU ( www.nvu.com) and be able to easily access the files created whether they are saved in the Internet or your hard drive. Note: I said "limited" because I understand how important money is and although it is OpenSource, we need to support the invention maintenance and upgrades... he..he.. he. Maybe indirectly, business may like to use this solution with more storage by a fee.... I don't know??? Keep up the great job, you guys ROCK!
