Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Who's the competition? [was: 21st Educational...]

On 12 March 2011 02:00, Craig Olofson <c.olofson@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 3/11/2011 4:36 PM, drew wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 2011-03-11 at 19:22 -0500, webmaster for Kracked Press
> > Productions wrote:
> >
> > > On 03/11/2011 07:04 PM, drew wrote:
> > > or marketing group.  Since they have several college/universities in the
> > > Ithaca area.
> > > Cornell is a major player in status for New York State Colleges.  A lot
> > > of major research
> > > partners with industries at Cornell.
> > Actually from what I can see MSO is not the competitor any longer, not
> > in the USA and not in Education - it is Google Docs.
> Yup.  Google Apps (which includes Docs) and, I'd argue to a lesser extent,
> Microsoft Live.
>
> I just want to re-emphasize Drew's assertion and go  a step further.  The
> relative importance of office suites is in flux.  In terms of importance,
> collaboration is ascendent.  This means having, not only productivity tools
> but, document management (i.e. versioning) and calendaring.
>
> For the last 4 or 5 years, MS' lunch has been eaten in the higher education
> space, not by other applications but by Google Apps.  And this is only
> because Google is the furthest along in recognizing the tools important to
> collaboration.  MS is late to the party but, it'd be wishful thinking to
> believe they won't stay & fight.

I have to say that I use Google's spreadsheet a lot more than Calc because I
need to use it collaboratively. I don't use the Google WP much because I put
information straight into Durpal pages and rarely need to print them. For
that reason I'm using Writer less and less. I never used Powerpoint or
impress much but come to think of it I have used Google's presentation
program a couple of times at least partly because of being able to embed the
presentation in a web page. I also use Inkscape more than Draw. Now I think
about it, I problem use OOo mostly as a compatibility tool when people send
me MS Office documents. So to me, there should be two over-riding
priorities. One is to get LibreOffice to be a collaborative web tool - (ok
its a massive job but if it isn't done OOo/LO could well be irrelevant in 5
years time) the other is to get it to work well on mobile technologies. That
could amount to the same thing if internet connections become cheap enough
and reliable enough. They aren't yet.

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