reverting gravity - lessons for libreoffice adoption

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Presentation and the LibreOffice Conference in Berlin, Germany about issues that hold back LibreOffice adoption or endanger its lasting success by creating a momentum for re-migration to Microsoft Office on Windows.

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Reverting Gravity

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Lessons for LibreOffice adoptionGeorg Greve, CEO

18. October 2012

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Introductionhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitation

“Gravitation, or gravity, is a natural phenomenonby which physical bodies attract each other with aforce proportional to their masses.“

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Introductionhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum gravity

“If the theory of quantum gravity also achieves agrand unification of the other known interactions,it is referred to as a theory of everything (TOE).“

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IntroductionInformation Technology is Simpler

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= Network Effect

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Platform“Playing a game of gravity against god”

Remember ECMA 234?

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PlatformBut isn’t the desktop dead?

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FormatThe gravitational pull of dead trees

Layman’s understanding:

OOXML compliance?MS-Office application behaviour.

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FormatResult: A rigged race

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FormatODF is still where it’s at

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BundlingOne major roadblock to LibreOffice adoption on Windows

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Displacing OutlookRequirements

Must consider Client and Server

I ServerI Including mobile & web

I ClientI Windows, Mac OS, LinuxI ideally also mobile

I SolutionI based on Open StandardsI must not be Outlook centricI Add options for LibreOffice?

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Displacing OutlookMission possible: Server

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Displacing OutlookMission possible: Client

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There is moreSharepoint

...and no answer yet.

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SizeThe moment we stop pushing...

The answer is collaboration.

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ConclusionAn invitation to work together

Three boosters:Office, Groupware, Browser

Technology & Politics

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