Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: IBM is alive ;)

2012-02-13 Thread Andor E
I'd just like to note, that the Municipiality of Munich is using OpenOffice.org on 18.000 clients. Not exactly small business. On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 9:01 PM, Robert Derman robert.der...@pressenter.com wrote: donald_harbi...@us.ibm.com wrote: Pedro, My mistake then. I didn't read deeply

[tdf-discuss] Re: IBM is alive ;)

2012-02-07 Thread Pedro
Hi donald, donald_harbison wrote What is this talk about a competitor product? The Apache OpenOffice project does not seek to compete with LibreOffice. *I* mentioned a competitor to LibreOffice (not Italo) and was referring to IBM Lotus Symphony and the web service IBM Docs. Quoting my

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: IBM is alive ;)

2012-02-07 Thread donald_harbison
: Pedro pedl...@gmail.com To: discuss@documentfoundation.org, Date: 02/07/2012 01:38 PM Subject:[tdf-discuss] Re: IBM is alive ;) Hi donald, donald_harbison wrote What is this talk about a competitor product? The Apache OpenOffice project does not seek to compete

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: IBM is alive ;)

2012-02-07 Thread Robert Derman
donald_harbi...@us.ibm.com wrote: Pedro, My mistake then. I didn't read deeply enough into the thread. I still submit that none of these open source projects and their products compete in the sense of meaningful market share. With MS-Office dominating so thoroughly the only thing that makes

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: IBM is alive ;)

2012-02-07 Thread sophie
On 07/02/2012 21:01, Robert Derman wrote: donald_harbi...@us.ibm.com wrote: Pedro, My mistake then. I didn't read deeply enough into the thread. I still submit that none of these open source projects and their products compete in the sense of meaningful market share. With MS-Office

[tdf-discuss] Re: IBM is alive ;)

2012-02-07 Thread Pedro
Hi again Don donald_harbison wrote What matters most is to help end users understand the benefits of ODF as their file format, and improve interoperability with the dominance of MS-Office formats. I agree with you that joining forces (instead of fighting for the crumbles and let MS

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: IBM is alive ;)

2012-02-06 Thread donald_harbison
-discuss] Re: IBM is alive ;) italovignoli wrote IBM has never been involved in TDF, and has been openly bashing TDF and LibreOffice on personal blogs of IBM employees and AOOoI mailing lists. Sorry, but IBM is off topic here. I am well aware of all that (IMO some IBM employees bashing TDF

[tdf-discuss] Re: IBM is alive ;)

2012-02-04 Thread Pedro
italovignoli wrote IBM has never been involved in TDF, and has been openly bashing TDF and LibreOffice on personal blogs of IBM employees and AOOoI mailing lists. Sorry, but IBM is off topic here. I am well aware of all that (IMO some IBM employees bashing TDF on their blogs and on public

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: IBM is alive ;)

2012-02-04 Thread Jonathan Aquilina
On 04/02/2012 15:33, Pedro wrote: italovignoli wrote IBM has never been involved in TDF, and has been openly bashing TDF and LibreOffice on personal blogs of IBM employees and AOOoI mailing lists. Sorry, but IBM is off topic here. I am well aware of all that (IMO some IBM employees bashing

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: IBM is alive ;)

2012-02-04 Thread Benjamin Horst
I do hope that LibreOffice On Line becomes a reality! It would be the only (to my knowledge) Free own-server based office suite! There is one of which I am aware, having used it at a previous employer: Zimbra Docs. It is not widely documented or discussed online, for reasons I don't know.

[tdf-discuss] Re: IBM is alive ;)

2012-02-04 Thread Pedro
Jonathan Aquilina wrote I am planning on offering something like that to my clients all they would be paying for is the virtual private server. Online is where everything is going. Pedro have you tried compiling LO from source Michael Meeks told me how to do it and its quite simple to

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: IBM is alive ;)

2012-02-04 Thread Jonathan Aquilina
On 04/02/2012 18:37, Pedro wrote: Jonathan Aquilina wrote I am planning on offering something like that to my clients all they would be paying for is the virtual private server. Online is where everything is going. Pedro have you tried compiling LO from source Michael Meeks told me how to do it

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: IBM is alive ;)

2012-02-04 Thread Benjamin Horst
On Feb 4, 2012, at 12:30 PM, Jonathan Aquilina wrote: On 04/02/2012 17:26, Benjamin Horst wrote: I do hope that LibreOffice On Line becomes a reality! It would be the only (to my knowledge) Free own-server based office suite! There is one of which I am aware, having used it at a previous

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: IBM is alive ;)

2012-02-04 Thread Jonathan Aquilina
On 04/02/2012 19:50, Benjamin Horst wrote: On Feb 4, 2012, at 12:30 PM, Jonathan Aquilina wrote: On 04/02/2012 17:26, Benjamin Horst wrote: I do hope that LibreOffice On Line becomes a reality! It would be the only (to my knowledge) Free own-server based office suite! There is one of which I

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: IBM is alive ;)

2012-02-04 Thread Benjamin Horst
On Feb 4, 2012, at 2:00 PM, Jonathan Aquilina wrote: On 04/02/2012 19:50, Benjamin Horst wrote: On Feb 4, 2012, at 12:30 PM, Jonathan Aquilina wrote: On 04/02/2012 17:26, Benjamin Horst wrote: I do hope that LibreOffice On Line becomes a reality! It would be the only (to my knowledge)

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: IBM is alive ;)

2012-02-04 Thread Jonathan Aquilina
On 04/02/2012 20:04, Benjamin Horst wrote: On Feb 4, 2012, at 2:00 PM, Jonathan Aquilina wrote: On 04/02/2012 19:50, Benjamin Horst wrote: On Feb 4, 2012, at 12:30 PM, Jonathan Aquilina wrote: On 04/02/2012 17:26, Benjamin Horst wrote: I do hope that LibreOffice On Line becomes a reality!

[tdf-discuss] Re: IBM is alive ;)

2012-02-04 Thread Pedro
Hi Benjamin, all Benjamin Horst wrote http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/features/managing-docs-with-zimbra/ It worked pretty well in my usage, I'd use it again. This is not even similar to Google Docs or IBM Docs. Zimbra Docs is a a WYSIWYG tool for creating, sharing, and publishing documents

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: IBM is alive ;)

2012-02-04 Thread Jonathan Aquilina
On 04/02/2012 20:18, Pedro wrote: Hi Benjamin, all Benjamin Horst wrote http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/features/managing-docs-with-zimbra/ It worked pretty well in my usage, I'd use it again. This is not even similar to Google Docs or IBM Docs. Zimbra Docs is a a WYSIWYG tool for creating,

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: IBM is alive ;)

2012-02-04 Thread Benjamin Horst
On Feb 4, 2012, at 2:18 PM, Pedro wrote: Hi Benjamin, all Benjamin Horst wrote http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/features/managing-docs-with-zimbra/ It worked pretty well in my usage, I'd use it again. This is not even similar to Google Docs or IBM Docs. Zimbra Docs is a a WYSIWYG

[tdf-discuss] Re: IBM is alive ;)

2012-02-04 Thread Pedro
Hi Benjamin Benjamin Horst wrote If you are serious about evaluating existing competitors in this space and want to carry out real due diligence, you need to download and install the Zimbra open source version to experiment with it. The installation I used was set up by our IT team, and I