Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Obstacles to ODF adoption

On Thursday, October 28, 2010 18:55:48 Ian wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 11:21 -0500, Frank Esposito wrote:

> [deleted]

> It's a MS world on the desktop in most places but it's a world in which
> MS is losing ground. If you look at the dominant computer technology and
> the fastest growing (Cell phones) MSFT is nowhere but unfortunately
> neither is LO/OOo :-(

But KOffice is!  So ODF is still strong on cell phones, and it's growing fast. 
Nokia, the world's largest cell phone maker is putting in much money and 
energy to get an ODF-capable free office application on their phones. I know 
several other vendors that do the same, but I'm not allowed to talk about that 
at this point.

> > so maybe we should concentrate on ODF benefits and then market towards
> > businesses who are still running MSO 2003 and  cannot afford the upgrade
> > and training to MSO 2007/2010 (which is considerable thanks to the
> > ribbon).
>
> Or get a port of LO/OOo to cell phones!

Is that really possible?

        -Inge

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