Here is a post about openoffice.org mail from my blog back in 2006:
http://jza.homelinux.org/a_colorado/wordpress/wp-trackback.php?p=292
Why 120,000 USD and not more?
Well maybe is more, what is important is what will a well managed budget
can take OOo to become the best suite out there and 127,000 is the magic
number for that.
So what will 127 G\’s will take us?
I make a mockup of what a programmer usually earns and a whole team of
programmers to finally come up with a budget for certain things that can
make OOo excel. I also focus only on new features and didn\’t took any
housecleaning which is also expensive.
This are the list of features that I choose for OOo:
- E-mail Client 50K
- Wikipedia 1K
- Gmail 18K
- Flckr 12K
- Blogger 1K
- 100 Templages 3K
- Templage service 12K
- Calendaring 25K
- Address Book 18K
The total comes to exactly 124K and is equivalent to 3900 hours of work.
To be able to make to justify this budget I also have a pre-budget to have
programmers up to speed. Each programmer will get around 30,000 worth of
trainning or 6 months. This can well be programmers starting from stracth
without specializing on any language. This is rarely a scenario since most
programmers will already be required to know XML, JAVA / C++ and the
trainning will focus on UNO which will stand for 15,000 or 3 months.
The only feature broken down is the E-Mail client which stands at 50K. The
project will include the generation of new interfaces for UNO, new
services, UI and integraton scripts for new features such as calendaring
and the regular OOo document management.
So this will be the major tasks and cost attached to it:
- Interface 7K
- Services 5K
- Integration menu 3K
- UI 10K
- Processor 10K
- Integration calendar 7K
- Integration Addres Book 5K
I am not an experience programmer and my area of contribution to the OOo
community is not on the development side. So putting an actual pricetag is
not guaranteed. However this bring some numbers out and a budget could be
started to be worked on.
The interesting part is that 50,000 is not much, if you do a simple survey
how many companies will put money to get an email client integrated into
OOo you can come up with at least 800 companies. If you come with 100,
they could give out just 500 dls to get that implemented this equal to
less than 1 licence of M$0 in their company.
On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:55:17 -0500, Marc O'Brien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Alexandro Colorado wrote:
On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 05:23:37 -0500, Jef Beck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I appreciate the idea and functionality of OpneOffice.org very much.
However to replace a most dominant office suite provider, i have no
alternative for its outlook mail. Moreover, i loose my mail
archive/boxes and address book.
Is here something for OOo to entertain?
Thank you very much and success for an open world!
JB
U are talking like there was no other email client in the landscape of
technology. Just because you are locked up in a proprietary mail client
doesn't mean you can't just switch to a free alternative like
Thunderbird, Seamonkey, Claws or million of other email clients.
Microsoft is far from inventing email, and so is far from inventing
email clients. So why you are sounding like there was no email client
beside outlook.
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OpenOffice.org
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IMHO, there are two primary reasons for the lack of corporate OO
adoption. The OO suite has matured nicely and we will be seeing growth
in corporate adoption accelerate rapidly. However, this is also due to
the maturing of other core solutions like email, project management and
calendaring. I am a recent convert to Thunderbird/Lightning and have
not missed a beat.... However, this is the second attempt at ousting
Outlook and the first was obviously not successful. It is more
difficult introducing OO into the corporate market without a full
complement of "replacements". That has been a problem that is being
rectified nicely with the current releases. The other consideration is
compatibility, which is why the ODF movement is so important. This is
essential as a 99% inter-operable solution means one out of every 100
(documents, spreadsheets, presentations or projects) is not read by the
CEO. If that occurs on an important file.....IT folks will be running
for cover.....doesn't sound good but that is reality. The community is
doing a nice job with promotion now and with 450k hits to the OOo site
each week we will be seeing much more corporate penetration.
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