[odf-discuss] News on MS pluggin

[Ian Lynch]

On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 04:11 -0700, marbux wrote:

>         
>         regret with OOo so far is that its designers tried to mimic
>         the market leader rather than building the proverbial better
>         mousetrap.


> Increasingly, developers are recognizing that there is tremendous
> customer value in collaborative environments located on the server
> side.  Business is booming in web apps. And what IBM is doing with its
> Workplace architecture is really worth watching. 


But OOo was not developed at that point in time. In order to get
something into the market quickly it had to be something that could
operate on current not future technologies. Hindsight is always easy :-)



> I guess the point I was trying to make is that Microsoft is aware of
> where at least most of the action really is and has chosen not to take
> Word, Excel, and PowerPoint there, albeit that the company is
> belatedly creating an online Office product that has but a glimmer of
> the namesake's capabilities. Time will tell, but I think Microsoft
> reads the tea leaves well enough to realize that the big client-side
> office suite is not going to be profitable much longer. It's being
> commoditized and marginalized. 


But how do they introduce a server side very functional alternative to
desktop office products without killing their own most lucrative market?
Classic dilemma for a victim of disruptive innovation.

You sort of have to feel sorry for them :-)

> The timeline is much harder for me to read. 'Tis a time of great flux.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Marbux
> 
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