Re: R: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Ideas wanted for "How we're different" part of new LibreOffice website

James makes a very good point. If you have a problem with MS Office you go down a single route to a 
single POC to try and get it resolved. If you had different support organisations for each of 
Outlook, Teams, OneNote etc, then MS Office would be very unattractive - especially in the 
enterprise space.

A replacement solution based on LO and other open source applications would be greatly enhanced if 
such a single POC existed. It doesn't mean other projects need to be subsumed into TDF. Some 
collaboration and a common support portal would allow each to continue independently, but with 
shared benefits and incentives for co-operation.

Nige

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From: James Harking <james.harking@gmail.com>
Sent: 30 December 2021 14:36
To: sophi <sophi@libreoffice.org>
Cc: TDF Marketing <marketing@global.libreoffice.org>
Subject: Re: R: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Ideas wanted for "How we're different" part of new 
LibreOffice website

Hi Sophie,

What I'm trying to 'tease' out is that LibreOffice in its current form can
not be a replacement for Microsoft Office, but clearly it is central to
this. As an example I have never heard of Blue Mind. What would go a long
way in my opinion is some guidance from the Document Foundation on
solutions that can replace missing functionality that an
enterprise/institution would have if migrating to FLOSS 'office' software
to form strategic partnerships with partner projects to grow the FLOSS
alternatives in this space. This will undoubtedly increase the viability of
LibreOffice as well as help projects that could support goals to the
Document Foundation such as Project Libre, Betterbird and Joplin.This is
why I suggested previously that a working group with associated projects
would be beneficial for the whole of the ecosystem.

Currently to replace the totality of Microsoft Office 365 takes around 5 or
6 applications I suspect which is a difficult ask given that you can go to
one provider for a solution but if there is a recommended migration path
using a number of 'partner' projects then it is an easier sell.

Kind regards

On Thu, Dec 30, 2021 at 2:11 PM sophi <sophi@libreoffice.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Le 30/12/2021 à 14:39, James Harking a écrit :
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Here's hypothetical for you, I don't have direct contact with our desktop
> > team but I do have some sway in decision making.
> >
> > Let's say we are a company with around 1000 Windows desktops, we
> currently
> > use Microsoft Office 365 and generally are happy with it, however license
> > costs are relatively expensive and we have a concern over our data
> > portability and so we are looking at alternatives. We would not migrate
> > away from Windows as this would cause excessive work for little benefit.
> >
> > We use Outlook for mail, calendaring and contacts which are essential for
> > us, we could for the most part substitute Word for Writer, Excel for Calc
> > and Impress for Powerpoint. However we also use Teams internally for
> > communication, meetings and document storage. Also One Note is used for
> > quick individual note keeping. Microsoft Project is used by a small
> subset
> > of colleagues.
>
> You have dedicated open source tools for that, this is not LibreOffice
> job to do video conference or mail. See one of them for example
> https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bluemind.net%2Fen%2F&amp;data=04%7C01%7C%7C4e38d3cfa0b846033be908d9cba1e30d%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637764718476922396%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&amp;sdata=Lj%2F98WuBdG1zwwbLDBdBSCv7smzi%2FXoxzWb%2BCX2Kh4A%3D&amp;reserved=0
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> Cheers
> Sophie
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