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Subject:    Re: [discuss] Re: [Marketing] Re: [discuss] Re: [Marketing] Re:
From:       Sander Vesik <Sander.Vesik () Sun ! COM>
Date:       2003-10-31 20:59:34
Message-ID: 3FA2CD36.2080307 () sun ! com
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CPH wrote:
> On Friday 31 October 2003 20:32, Sander Vesik wrote:
> 
>>ian wrote:
>>
>>>On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 15:19, Sam Hiser wrote:
>>>
>>>>>>Therefore, my efforts are in getting our download tracking and market
>>>>>>share estimating capabilities in shape to be able to publish these and
>>>>>>have them reliably contradict Microsoft's definitions.  It's a question
>>>>>>of popularity and conter-leverage.
>>>>>
>>>>>Yes, do we know how we compare to Works as far as users is concerned?
>>>>
>>>>How can it not be favorable?
>>>
>>>But we need some quantitative measure with reasonable evidence before
>>>going to DELL or whoever to convince them it will help their sales.
>>>
>>>Not sure how we do this but the stats for Works must be around
>>>somewhere.
>>
>>Well, there is at least one regard in which we presently lose to works -
>>works comes with a better starting set of templates. for example, it
>>comes with a "family budget" template / doc out of the box. I'm not
>>saying its something hard to fix (the templates aren't even that good -
>>i think they uniformaly use $USD etc) and are probably matchable easily,
>>but we should imho be doing that out of the box before selling OOo as
>>works replacement.
>>
>>but yes, in general OOo is better
> 
> 
> I've been thinking about templates recently and I think that we should be able 
> to have a set of templates which we can easily make localizable. 
> 
> Anyone interested in becoming the leader for this ?
> 

I think this is a great idea - there are presently already some 
templates /s ample docs in the documentation project, but these all 
(both old and new) really need to become part of installation sets.



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