Comments on: OpenOffice.org’s Market Share at 20%! http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2007/10/12/openofficeorgs-market-share-at-20/ The Magic of Open Source Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:06:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Alan Lord http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2007/10/12/openofficeorgs-market-share-at-20/comment-page-1/#comment-129 Alan Lord Tue, 16 Oct 2007 15:07:40 +0000 http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2007/10/12/openofficeorgs-market-share-at-20/#comment-129 That's a good idea. I plan to upgrade the Wordpress engine to 2.3 soon anyway so I'll do it then. Thanks. That’s a good idea. I plan to upgrade the Wordpress engine to 2.3 soon anyway so I’ll do it then.

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]]> By: Jack @ The Tech Teapot http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2007/10/12/openofficeorgs-market-share-at-20/comment-page-1/#comment-128 Jack @ The Tech Teapot Tue, 16 Oct 2007 09:23:43 +0000 http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2007/10/12/openofficeorgs-market-share-at-20/#comment-128 I'm sure plenty do read it, just that for some reason people are a bit shy about commenting. As blogs are supposed to be a conversation, I think that's a bit odd. Any chance you could add one of those nice email notification plugins? They do make blog comments into a genuine conversation. :) I’m sure plenty do read it, just that for some reason people are a bit shy about commenting. As blogs are supposed to be a conversation, I think that’s a bit odd.

Any chance you could add one of those nice email notification plugins? They do make blog comments into a genuine conversation. :)

]]> By: Alan Lord http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2007/10/12/openofficeorgs-market-share-at-20/comment-page-1/#comment-126 Alan Lord Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:08:45 +0000 http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2007/10/12/openofficeorgs-market-share-at-20/#comment-126 Personally I don't count anyone, but you do raise a good point. The original article is really just about how M$ is continually represented with a 95% market share for Office. And as it turns out, the reason is simply that the "statisticians" are only looking at the money trail... i.e. how much of the sales of Office application software goes to M$. Obviously, when you consider the numbers of users of free solutions the picture becomes much less one-sided. I'm not sure how much Google Docs would account for today, but I'd expect that to be an increasing share of the overall pie. When you add in the 104m downloads of OOo, plus all the pre-bundled copies that come with distros (my Ubuntu desktop for example), then it is clear that there is significant percentage of non-Microsoft users out there and it is a very rapidly growing one too! M$ piece of that pie must surely be shrinking. Thanks for the comments - it's good to know that at least some of the many visitors actually read it ;-) Personally I don’t count anyone, but you do raise a good point. The original article is really just about how M$ is continually represented with a 95% market share for Office. And as it turns out, the reason is simply that the “statisticians” are only looking at the money trail… i.e. how much of the sales of Office application software goes to M$.

Obviously, when you consider the numbers of users of free solutions the picture becomes much less one-sided. I’m not sure how much Google Docs would account for today, but I’d expect that to be an increasing share of the overall pie. When you add in the 104m downloads of OOo, plus all the pre-bundled copies that come with distros (my Ubuntu desktop for example), then it is clear that there is significant percentage of non-Microsoft users out there and it is a very rapidly growing one too! M$ piece of that pie must surely be shrinking.

Thanks for the comments – it’s good to know that at least some of the many visitors actually read it ;-)

]]> By: Jack @ The Tech Teapot http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2007/10/12/openofficeorgs-market-share-at-20/comment-page-1/#comment-124 Jack @ The Tech Teapot Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:36:54 +0000 http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2007/10/12/openofficeorgs-market-share-at-20/#comment-124 How do you count people who've got both OpenOffice & Office and use Google Docs? Presumably, the stats count an individual machine as having the software installed upon it. With Google Docs that notion goes out of the window somewhat. How do you count people who’ve got both OpenOffice & Office and use Google Docs? Presumably, the stats count an individual machine as having the software installed upon it. With Google Docs that notion goes out of the window somewhat.

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