Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibreOffice's role in a MS Office world

The situation is somewhat similar in India too, although, we have an 
official policy that mandates open document standards:
http://egovstandards.gov.in/notification/Notification_Policy_on_Open_Standards_-_12Nov10.pdf/at_download/file 
- this is powerful weapon in the hands of the activists.

Kannan


Ma Xiaojun wrote:
> Hi, all.
>
> I have experience as a college student in China, Hong Kong, US.
> All these three regions seems to be MS Office based; people assume
> others have access to MS Office.
> China, in particular, generally use MS Office documents even in the
> cases that PDF is a better choice, for example, announcements often
> use doc format.
> I haven't seen any ODF files distributed around except those found in
> SFD or LUG events.
>
> Let's consider some real world cases.
> 1. An organization has Windows + MS Office deployment already, which
> is at least very common in universities.
> Then for whatever reasons, the organization is considering some
> alternative options.
> A. Apache OpenOffice
> B. Google Docs
> C. LibreOffice
> D. Office 365
> I'd put an honest question: What's the advantages of LibreOffice in this case?
>
> 2. A non-geek bought a PC for her own use, the OS is Linux/Mac OS
> X/Windows, and she is considering which productivity suite to use.
> A. Apache OpenOffice
> B. Google Docs
> C. LibreOffice
> D. MS Office
> E. Office 365
> Still the same question, what's the advantages of LibreOffice here?
> You may exclude the Linux case since LibreOffice is often
> pre-installed by various Linux distributions.
> From my own experience, the fact that LibreOffice releases seems to be
> a disadvantage.
> If I help someone else install a particular version of LibreOffice,
> that software would never get upgraded without my participation.
>
> I understand "free and open source", "free of charge" are big
> advantages for some people.
> Are they enough for general marketing? I guess not.
> For me, less bloated, available as portable app seems to be the
> biggest advantage of LibreOffice.
> I'm also expecting LibreOffice being available in Android and Web world.
>
> Cheers,
> Ma Xiaojun
>
>   

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