Hi :) We are not all single users here! Far from it! There are a lot of companies invested in LibreOffice/OpenOffice and even more if you include other products that use the OpenDocument Format. Mostly they are not names well recognised by "Windows desktop users" but some may ring a bell; Google, IBM, Redhat, Canonical, Oracle, Novell http://www.documentfoundation.org/supporters/
We used to keep a page on articles in the press including articles about massive migrations to LO https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/LibreOffice_In_The_Press and OpenOffice.org used to keep a page showing some of the larger corporates that used LO/OOo but it all became untenable as there are so many articles and migrations out there http://www.computerworld.dk/art/118467/koebenhavnske-hospitaler-dropper-microsoft-office http://www.muktware.com/hacksheet/2306 "Copenhagen hospitals ... move to using LibreOffice ... to save around 5.3 million euros" http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/220739/libreoffice_software_is_here_to_stay.html http://www.version2.dk/artikel/ministerium-faar-milliongevinst-med-skift-til-virtuelle-desktoppe-og-libreoffice-44101 In some non-English-speaking countries use of OOo/LO is widespread. For some it's a political decision, ie would US companies all be happy paying millions to a non-American company for a product that has American-English only as a 2nd and barely supported language? In most of Europe LO/OOo has around 20% of the market, in England it seems to be creeping up to around 1 or 2%. Why buy a product from a rival and pay hundreds of thousands to them in licensing fees when for a fraction of the price you can pay a few of your own devs to join in with something that removes the need? That way companies can target some developments to suit specific needs they might have from time-to-time while benefiting from the development work done by other devs working for different companies Unfortunately while MS dominates the market, documents produced using MSO 2010 do not always display properly in MSO 2007 and only work at all in earlier versions if you get the extra plugin. So, people are being pushed into buying their latest product just before the newer MSO 2013 (or whatever they are going to call it) gets released and then they will soon have to re-purchase to keep up. There even appears to be a note from MS that users need to upgrade to the latest MS OS as documents produced in the same version of MSO will look different on Xp from Win7 and different again on Vista. I am not in the development team but i get the impression the LO devs work through OOo bugs as well as the LO ones. LibreOffice has absorbed other projects that had originally forked from OOo due to Sun not incorporating all the required bug-fixes and developments from other companies or individuals. If MS are not careful then the interoperability argument is going to increasingly favour non-MS products as we all use the OpenDocument Format as a native format while also trying to support the various MS formats that are all called the same name as each other but operate differently. Regards from Tom :) -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Problems-importing-an-OO-database-into-LO-tp3890826p3911888.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted