Thanks to all those who picked up on the Microsoft Linux and Open Office Compete Lead job advert and blogged about it. Not surprisingly, the ad has now disappeared. maybe all that blogging helped Microsoft find their perfect candidate overnight? or maybe they decided that the plan of “engaging with Open Source communities and organizations” [...]
According to The Inquirer, Rachel Bondi, general manager of Microsoft Office, can scarcely contain her excitement at the number of people who are downloading the Microsoft Office 2010 beta: “it’s a rate of more than 40,000 downloads per day. That’s approximately twice the number of people who run the Boston Marathon each year, or the [...]
When I compiled the OpenOffice.org Strategic Marketing Plan for the Community back in 2004, I wrote on the back cover: What do you do if you have a product that’s as good as anything on the market, but you want to give it away? And what if your major competitor already has a virtual monopoly [...]
Following our shortlisting for the Best Online News release Award of 2009, it was great to see the news today that “PRWeb, the online news distribution service of Vocus (NASDAQ: VOCS), today announced that an OpenOffice.org news release was named the winner of The Best of PRWeb contest.” We’ve long known that “many eyes make [...]
I once asked a corporate IT person what his company’s investment was in office software. He gave me the cost of their Microsoft Office licences – which was the wrong answer. Anyone can go out any buy the same licences – they aren’t an investment – they don’t create any competitive advantage; they’re just a [...]
A couple of years ago we came up with a slogan for OpenOffice.org – Open for Business – to get across a couple of messages: OpenOffice.org software may be used by commercial businesses completely free of any licence fees OpenOffice.org software is also a great platform to build businesses around – training providers, systems integrators, [...]
Playing with beta software is a good (if slightly risky) way to find out what’s coming round the corner. OpenOffice.org 3.2 is due for release early in the new year, and I’ve been using a beta version to investigate the new features. The good news is that the software has proved to be perfectly stable [...]
