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Open Source and Open Standards: Mathias Bauer Project Lead Sun Microsystems Inc
Open Source and Open Standards: Mathias Bauer Project Lead Sun Microsystems Inc
OpenOffice.org: Distribution
Downloads >130Mio in total from main site (more than 1Mio per week) After 3.0 release an Oct 12th 2008: ~10Mio (~350k per day) Several millions distributed on CD Included in all important Linux distributions
Perspectives: The majority of people has not chosen an office suite, yet!
It took more than a quarter of a century to reach the first billion users, but with advancing technology, lower prices, and global demand for a technology-aware population, it will take only seven years to reach the next billion.
Forrester
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Free as in freedom of speech, not as in free lunch An ethical dimension to software development In practice, similar to Open Source The two are often conflated, FOSS, FLOSS, Free and Open Source... Free software means choice > No license costs to be paid upfront > Pay for what you need or do it yourself
Adoption of OpenOffice.org
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Market_Share_Analysis
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Offline distribution
http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2007/08/portuguese-ministry-of-education-goes.html
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1980: "Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM hardware." V2.0: Nobody will get fired for buying Microsoft software. > Best to fight with positive examples http://www.metamorphosis.org.mk/content/view/1279/4/lang,en/
Costs of change
> New user interface and new work flows can require user training > Users will need more training for MS Office 2007 than for OpenOffice.org > Quality of change management is important
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MS SharePoint Alfresco SAP O3Spaces OpenText LiveLink FileNet Fabasoft Folio SugarCRM Drupal Collanos Drupal
An open standard will free documents and prevents the user lock-in created by proprietary file formats
Freedom of documents
You should have the right to own your own information. It's your intellectual capital and you worked hard to produce it for your citizens. Sun doesn't own it, Microsoft doesn't own it, you own it, and that means it should be living in a nice, longlived, non-proprietary data format that isn't anyone's competitive weapon.
Tim Bray Sun Microsystems
ISO/IEC 26300
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OpenOffice.org StarOffice IBM Symphony Microsoft Office (via Sun ODF plug in) KOffice Google Docs & Spreadsheet AbiWord ZOHO Writer Textmaker 2006 Apple Mac OS X Leopard ...
Perspectives
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By 2010, ODF document exchange will be required by 50 percent of government and 20 percent of commercial organizations (0.7 probability).
http://www.gartner.com/resources/140100/140101/iso_approval_of_oasis_opendo_140101.pdf
I love the way Microsoft follows standards. In much the same manner that fish follow migrating caribou.
Paul Tomblin
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Perspectives
Modern information technology has turned the world into a village with amazing speed. It links people and builds bridges in a way which even quite recently we would have believed impossible. An open, unhindered exchange of information in all areas of life is of fundamental importance for today's knowledge-based society. It is an important foundation for our shared objective: a peaceful, democratic, pluralistic society. The Open Document Format, as a completely open and ISO-standardized format, is an excellent vehicle for the free exchange of knowledge and information in the globalized age. Frank-Walter Steinmeier Federal Foreign Minister, Germany
More than 500 members from more than 50 countries since March 2006, e.g.: BBC, Bristol City Council, Bull, Corel, EDS, EMC, Google, IBM, Novell, Oracle, Red Hat, Software AG, Sun Microsystems, City of Vienna, etc.
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