Re: redifining GNOME office.

["Panos Laganakos" <panos laganakos gmail com>]

We could very well base marketing on that concept.
ie: "Still thinking your software working suite in terms of * Office?"

and show that GNOME doesn't force you into using certain apps, but
allows you to build your own suite in your own terms, but yet - they
all "speak" to eachother hassle-free.


On 4/4/07, Alex Hudson <home alexhudson com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 23:30 +0300, Quim Gil wrote:
> > On 4/4/07, Alex Hudson <home alexhudson com> wrote:
> > > we would lose an important constituency (those making purchasing
> > > decisions, etc.)
> >
> > Those making purchasing decisions don't look at GNOME alone, look at
> > distributions. They think in Firefox, they think in
> > Evolution/Thunderbird, they think in OpenOffice, they care to have
> > well covered the PDF, Flash, Java issues... and they don't really care
> > if application X is in fact GNOME or not as far it works properly.
> >
> > IMveryHO trying to marketing-wise (re)build a concept of GNOME Office
> > to compete against OOo is even more futile than putting energies into
> > beating Firefox's success with Epiphany.
>
> Sure, but I think you're misunderstanding me. I'm not trying to sell the
> concept of GNOME Office over OOo, because I agree, I don't think that
> would work. For those who really care about productivity apps on the
> free desktop, OOo is the most important app (IMveryHO also ;)
>
> What I'm saying is that "GNOME Office" needs to be about saying to these
> people, "GNOME is the best environment for running your
> OpenOffice/Tbird/whatever". It's not about promoting GNOME ahead of
> those apps, but promoting the idea of GNOME being the best environment
> for those apps.
>
> At the end of the day, people will choose GNOME for a very few reasons,
> but primarily I think their reasons will be based on the apps they want
> to run, not because they like the look of the desktop. We should be
> making their apps work better in GNOME, and telling them that if they
> want the best OOo/whatever experience, that GNOME is the desktop to run.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alex.
>
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Panos Laganakos