Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: local/regional cable office uses[ed] OpenOffice.

On 04/22/2011 07:47 PM, Marc Paré wrote:
> Le 2011-04-22 10:29, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions a écrit :
> > I had to deal with a tech guy from my local/regional cable [and
> > Internet] company. He told me, after I started in on my free software
> > chatter, that they use OpenOffice. I told him about Oracle dropping
> > their support of it after LibreOffice came out in its big splash.
> >
> > I told him that LibreOffice's first release was much better than the
> > same release of OOo and the 100's of articles that claim the same thing.
> >
> > I told him that if they wanted, I would freely provide them with the NA
> > DVD, but gave him a printout with the URLs on how to find LibreOffice.
> > He told me he would get the message to the IT people about Oracle no
> > longer supporting OOo and that LibreOffice may be the way to go from
> > here on out. I also told him that LibreOffice's menus look the same as
> > OOo and work with the same file types. But, I also told him that it
> > works better that OOo.
> >
> > I think this was another case of a company not having the resources to
> > keep using MSO when they need the money to increase their physical
> > cable/net/digital-phone network [hardware and software].
> >
> > This is another example on talking to someone about something else, and
> > then letting them know about you not wanting/affording to use paid
> > software and one of your solutions is using LibreOffice as you office
> > suite.
> >
> > I was surprised that they already went to OOo, but it is good that they
> > are now thinking about Open-Source software to fill their needs.
> >
> > Just for the record. The cable company's parent is Time-Warner - owner
> > of CNN and many other media companies. I wonder how far up the company
> > chain does the use of OOo goes? It would be nice if it went all the way
> > to the main corporate center in Atlanta Georgia.
>
> We also need to tell such companies that there is also commercial 
> support from Novell (http://www.novell.com/products/libreoffice/) 
> should they need commercial support but also that our user mailist is 
> quite as capable of providing support. Most companies will and should 
> be concerned with commercial support for the product.
>
> The shakeup from the closing down of OpenOffice.org will take a while 
> to work its way through the OOo user base. We should take the occasion 
> to press-release to as many Tech organisatons, especially the Windows 
> publications, that LibreOffice is now the path to update/upgrades to OOo.
>
> BTW, talking of OOo, there is still no word from Oracle of the fate of 
> the trademarked OOo.org name. IMHO, if Oracle offers it to the 
> TDF/LibreOffice community, we should pick it up, as this would permit 
> us a little more control over the changeover from OOo usage to the 
> LibreOffice brand. It could smoothen up the move rather than creating 
> a shock through the world of OOo users.
>
> Cheers
>
> Marc
I am hoping that in a week or two I will be up to going to their "local" 
office, two towns over, and talk to a manager about LibreOffice and 
present him/her with a couple of DVDs.  Right now, I am not "well 
enough" even to be able to visit my wife for the Holiday and had to get 
a friend to take her basket of goodies to the nursing facility.

Yes, that Novell support info may be a "good sell".  The more we can 
promote that "big businesses" are supporting LibreOffice, the better.  I 
was thinking about saying that after the first version of LibreOffice 
came out, Oracle started to loose a lot of their market share since the 
press stated that LibreOffice was better than OOo [which was the 
standard MSO alternate up to then].  And, then this month Oracle 
announced that it will no longer develop or support the OOo product line 
[both the free and paid versions].  Not sure of my wording, but the gist 
will be that OOo was the standard for free or paid alternative to MSO 
until LibreOffice came out with a better product even though it is based 
upon the OOo open-source code and menu structure.  Also, if you 
currently use OOo, you can easily switch to LibreOffice, since its menu 
structure is the same and it used the same file formats, extensions, and 
other add-ons.  With all that said, LibreOffice still works better than 
OOo according to many, many independent tech related publications.  All 
this and more seemed to "help" Oracle to decide to end its development 
and support of the trademarked product line they own called OpenOffice.org.

The fact that OOo was "the" standard for free [or paid] alternatives to 
the MS office suite and within a few months of LibreOffice coming out 
LibreOffice became the better product so it is now defacto standard.  
The fact that the US government is hyping open-source products and 
LibreOffice is the best of the open-source office suites could help as well.

I may be dealing with the local/regional library system in mid May, I 
hope to give out some DVDs there during my meeting for the Transit 
Riders committee, and then the manager for the main branch of our 
library system.  Then I hopefully be able to get in to see the "proper" 
person[s] for the city and county government IT departments, or a higher 
up official.  I will be dropping off some DVDs and whatever documents 
that the Marketing groups come up with that would be good to help them 
understand how great LibreOffice is, and why they should switch to this 
office package.



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