Last year I did a three-part blog (“The Power of Brand and the Power of Product”) describing a simple model of product adoption and market share, and showed how the parameters of that model could be determined using a single survey question. I used the open source productivity suites, OpenOffice and LibreOffice, as examples. […]
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Document as Activity versus Document as Record
I’ve been thinking some more on the past, present and future of documents. I don’t know exactly where this post will end up, but I think this will help me clarify some of my own thoughts. First, I think technology has clouded our thinking and we’ve been equivocating with the term “document”, using it for […]
Announcing OpenLibreOffice
2014-04-01 The Internet The Apache OpenOffice project and The Document Foundation are pleased to announce that an agreement has been made to combine resources and jointly develop a next-generation open source office suite, to be called “OpenLibreOffice” (except in France where it will be called “LibreOfficeOpen”). OpenLibreOffice will be quad licensed under the ALv2, […]
IBM Support for Apache OpenOffice
As you probably know, IBM has been involved with the OpenOffice.org community for many years. This included collaboration on ODF and accessibility at first, as we worked on our separate Lotus Symphony fork. And then in 2011 we followed the OpenOffice.org community to Apache where Apache OpenOffice then took off. Since then we’ve been merging […]
The Power of Brand and the Power of Product, Part 3
In the previous two parts (one and two) I described a model of product adoption and market share that could be built with a single survey question. I applied this model to the open source productivity suites OpenOffice and LibreOffice, looking at adoption in September 2012 and April 2013. The results were described in detail […]