[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Brochure-type: General Information

Le 10/05/13 09:52 AM, Tom Davies a écrit :
> Hi :)
> I was just saying that if you try to sell a used car then pointing at the flat tyres and saying the 
> wheels are great is not likely to result in a good sale.
>
> Selling Base for what it is good for shows people how much more advanced and powerful LibreOffice 
> is.
>
> Trying to sell Base for what Access is good for (and the 1 thing that Base is bad at) is a bit 
> dismal.  It underplays our hand.  Why compete with MS when we can change the conversation and by 
> doing so be sooo far ahead.
> Regards from
> Tom :)

Tom,

first off, Base is being worked on by at least one dev. Unfortunately, 
it is not an attractive code that invites people to work on. So, one of 
our jobs as marketers is try to attract more competent devs to help out 
with the Base code ... this will be done in our "Developer brochure" ... 
we can at least help the dev group in trying to secure devs for the Base 
module.

Second, we need to stop thinking of LibreOffice competing with MSO. As 
far as we are concerned, we are now the leading, driving, and bleeding 
edge of the office suite development. MSO can now try to follow in our 
footsteps and try to compete with us. We should not be looking at 
ourselves as anything but this. And, no, I am not talking from the point 
of view of Base, but from the point of view of the whole LibreOffice 
project.

Certainly MSO is out there, but we need more of a "forward looking 
philosophy" rather than a "looking over our shoulder" or "competing with 
..." philosophy.

So, as Tim has pointed out, this is not the place to debate the virtues 
of the Base code. I see on the users' list that some people use Base as 
it is, and, not as a front-end to any other sql-database. When they have 
problems, bugs, we, as LibreOffice members need to direct them to the 
Bugzilla reporting and in time Base will improve. But for now, from what 
I can see, some are using Base with success and not complaining about it.

So, as you can read from the text in the brochure, the Base section does 
not mention any "competing with Access" and I would suggest that we NOT 
say that it competes with Access in any of our brochures.

Cheers,

Marc


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