Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 4373
Open office - Suggestion
Last modified: 2012-02-20 02:24:29 UTC
Sorry I have to give you guys credit first before I suggest something. What you have done is incredible. Please forgive for making this comparison but I truely belive that you can and will dominate the market if you have the same fuctionality as Office. The only componet your missing is a mail apps simular to outlook. I believe that if you had this functionality you would start to see success stories of corps replacing competitors with your software. Now the other side of this is you would have to have traing to get user famalir with your product. I'm sure everyone that logs in has a big idea that will help break up the dominance but all of the alternatives suffer from the same issues of lack of some functionality. I've tried everything that I can to replace office but I still need Outlook. Now would you have to start from scratch? I don't know but are you familar with evolution? I think this is also open source to some extent. MS built most of their reputation on functionality and inovation - with enough focus perhaps we can beat them at their own game.
Hi Louis, Should this be redirected to a groupware project owner and not me. Lingucomponent is not the place for this. Thanks, Kevin
groupware needs scheduling also
Just an idea if it gets passed along. Maybe, if possible, you can work with Ximian the makers of Evolution. It is a well known and great product for Linux. It might be something only the StarOffice folks can work with. But maybe OO.o can work on a port for windows. Just thought I would throw that out there for maybe a little discussion.
Multiuser/Groupware: What Adam Moore says 2002-06-17 09:09 PDT plus that this will take some time to plan, build, test and release it... Singleuser: Take Mozilla as an alternative if you *only* read/send mails and news and browse the web.
referenced this issue in the OOogw issue #7210 and marking this issue as closed. Gary
I wanted to mark this as 'resolved' because it's being tracked in the groupware component's IZ???
removing obsolete version value
close issue.