Re: [libreoffice-marketing] looks like OOo based IBM Symphony wants opinion on how good it is

On 11/16/11 12:09 AM, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote:

> The linked list is a start, but having a side by side function
> comparison between Writer and Word, Calc and Excel, etc., is needed.

A few thoughts:

- all main office suites share over 90% of the features, and this gives
Microsoft a real advantage (because the company can advertise features)
but allows us to say that all features are there (this is the reality,
unless you are looking for something really specific)

- 80% of users access less than 10% of features (maybe less than 5%),
and this makes a large number of features completely irrelevant for the
majority of the users (sometimes, they do not find features just because
the menu is not there, as the famous - missing - Table menu of OOo 1.0,
while the feature was there, even better than MS Office)

- Microsoft bets on features, because they have an higher count of them
(if done on a table), although they know that features are irrelevant
for the choice of the office suite

- maintaining a feature to feature comparison is very time consuming,
and would not bring - in my opinion - significant advantages to us, as
the history of OOo shows: the awareness was key to increase downloads
while features were completely irrelevant (Sun betted on features to get
nothing, the community worked on awareness to get very good results)

Anyway, this is just my opinion.

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