On Thu, 06 Nov 2008 20:24:42 -0500 Came this utterance fomulated by Douglas St.Clair to my mailbox:
> > On Nov 6, 2008, at 8:10 PM, Michael Adams wrote: > > > OO.o is a general office productivity suite, > > > A number of products have gotten significant traction by being the > package that was used in schools and colleges. Once the students > graduated they wanted to continue to use what they were familiar with. > I doubt that is the situation here. I have yet to see the Office Suite that has syntax highlighting beyond the little bit offered in Writer/Web HTML View. > Hmmmmm what the heck is 'a general office productivity suite'? Who > uses a general office productivity suite? This description sounds like > http://www.openoffice.org/ "OpenOffice.org the free and open productivity suite" http://about.openoffice.org/index.html Mission statement "To create, as a community, the leading international office suite..." http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/suites/FX101677751033.aspx "The 2007 Microsoft Office suites" "The productivity tools you need to create great-looking documents, spreadsheets and presentations, and manage e-mail." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_suite "In computing, an office suite, sometimes called an office software suite or productivity suite is a software suite intended to be used by typical clerical worker and knowledge workers." Yes i added the word "general" myself, bite me ;) > a hold over from a guy who bought an MS like package and gave it away > because of a personal vendetta against MS. Not the sort of market > planning that wins lots of market share. Rather than go head to head > with a really dominant player in a market carving out a niche they > haven't touched is the way to go. For example MS Office is a good > product for an individual it isn't really a team product. MS isn't a > strong player for large documents. It isn't a strong player for > researchers and scientists. etc. But the philosophy behind a syntax highlighting text editor is significantly different to an Office Productivity Suite, general or not. -- Michael All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well - Julian of Norwich 1342 - 1416 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
