[libreoffice-marketing] Re: [tdf-discuss] Marketing material suggestion: Why LibreOffice?

According to the blog of Alfresco, LO is now offering integration
as experimental feature:
http://blogs.alfresco.com/wp/wabson/2012/11/01/cmis-support-in-libreoffice-experimental-features/

What are the plans on CIMS for LO 4.0 ?

I think this is a great feature and selling point vs MSO.

Immanuel


On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 3:39 PM, Immanuel Giulea
<giulea.immanuel@gmail.com>wrote:

> OpenERP mentions explicitely OO but nothing about LO.
>
> Since LO is the improved version of OO, has anyone considered to contact
> the people from OpenERP to get them to update their docs?
>
> If we arguing in favor of integration with the product, we need their docs
> to be update so we can back up ourselves. And it should be tested.
>
> I also found out about the OPAL extension that used to work with OO
> http://forge.alfresco.com/gf/project/opal/
>
> And Alfresco is looking for help to integrate with LO, which is good news
> for us.
> http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Help_Wanted#LibreOffice_CMIS_integration
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Immanuel
>
>
> On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Boudi van Vlijmen <boudi@vanvlijmen.nl>wrote:
>
> > Congratulations! The good news is: Microsoft takes the effort to write a
> > document against LO&OO! If there is no threath, there is no reason to do so!
> >
> >    - OpenERP integrates best with LibreOffice and OpenOffice (
> >    http://doc.openerp.com/v6.1/book/8/8_20_Config/8_20_Config_reports.html)
> >    and not with MS-Word. (more cost effective than other business solutions)
> >    - Work tool aware organisations don't fall in the MS overtooling trap
> >    (a big issue for document management). Work files should be .odf and
> >    presentation and archiving files should be .pdf
> >    - MS - Office does not support all .odf 1.2 functionality (comments?)
> >    - Email clients for desktops will soon be outdated. Not for no reason
> >    Mozilla stoped with the Thunderbird development Calendering today is a
> >    typical cloud application.
> >       - By the way sending documents with email from LO works fine...
> >    - MS Outlook integration is based on legacy standards causing all
> >    kind of problems for receivers with no MS software.... (The .dat attachment
> >    problem)
> >    - Desktop calendaring (Outlook) will soon be outdated
> >    - Cloud colaberation tools like Google Drive work fine with OO and
> >    LO. Who needs colaboration tools outside the cloud?
> >    - Pivot tables work (different)
> >    - Last but not least LibreOffice features NO foot in the door file
> >    format trap! Also called vendor-lock.
> >
> > So where is the argument?
> > LibreOffice;
> > Write is a perfect workdocument editing tool with great archive (pdf)
> > creation tool integrated,
> > Calc is a perfect spreadsheet tool with great archive (pdf) creation tool
> > integrated,
> > Impress is a perfect presentation creation tool with great archive (pdf)
> > creation tool integrated,
> > is a great platform for business administration automation with an
> > integrated IDE and a nice set of database tools included,
> >
> > All for less than half the price! ;-)
> > And LibreOffice  Works on Windows and OSX for the same price.
> >
> > In fact all the USPs for Word, Excel and Powerpoint disappear in a cloud
> > of dust.
> > MS clearly tries to sell outdated USPs as unique to the Late Majority.
> > Time for the Early Majority to switch! Time for LibreOffice!
> >
> > Met vriendelijke groet,
> > Kind regards,
> > Boudi van Vlijmen <http://www.vanvlijmen.nl>
> >
> > *Open standards or Open Wallets that is the question!*
> > http://forumstandaardisatie.nl/
> > Beleidsquote "Rijksdiensten moeten vanaf april 2008 ODF ondersteunen.
> > Mede-overheden en overige instellingen volgen uiterlijk december 2008.
> > ODF = .odt voor tekst, .ods voor spreadsheets, .odp voor presentaties"
> > http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Immanuel Giulea <
> > giulea.immanuel@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > Microsoft put out a three-page document that hits on some of the
> > > weaknesses
> > > of LO (and bundles LO with OOo):
> > >
> > > http://download.microsoft.com/download/D/0/D/D0DA0C4B-22DE-40C7-A84D-0C7E03347A9C/Considering-LibreOffice-and-OO-v2.pdf
> > >
> > > Is there some materials that can explain the strong points of LO and
> > > offer
> > > counter-arguments to what MS says ?
> > >
> > > Some of the key points would be:
> > > - lack of calendaring/email
> > > - collaboration tools
> > > - pivot tables
> > >
> > >
> > > Immanuel
> > >
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