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Where Is OpenOffice Now?Office Planning

14F RUM

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Agenda

What is OpenOffice? Who is OpenOffice? Feature Drilldown

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What is ?

History Sun bought StarDivision (and StarOffice) in 1999

Released StarOffice 5.2 in June 2000 “Open Sourced” the application in June 2000

OpenOffice.org 1.0: Release: May, 2002 StarOffice 6.0 released simultaneously

OpenOffice 2.0: Release Oct 2005 StarOffice 8.0 released simultaneously

Product Writer, base, calculation, and impress

Distribution Distributed as a derived product

Sun (Star Office), Novell Office, AOL Office, IBM Workplace Red Office, Magyar Office, SOT Office

Linux Distributions Red Hat, Fedora, Debian, Mandrakesoft, and Linspire

CD Distribution Working on an OEM PIK to target smaller OEMs in emerging

markets

Product List

OO.o Office

Writer Word

Calc Excel

Impress PPT

Base Access

Outlook

Groove

Project

Visio

OneNote

WSS

UCG

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StarOffice Versus OpenOfficeStarOffice is Sun’s proprietary/commercial version of the OO.o code

Customer Reasons for preferring StarOffice to OpenOffice.org A user currently has a proprietary licensed

competitive commercial product, and prefers to continueto use proprietary licenses

Company policy forbids open-source software There is a requirement to purchase world-class

supportfrom a large vendor

A company needs the security of having a large corporatesupplier to sue if anything goes wrong

A user needs the additional commercial products includedin StarOffice (fonts, Adabas database, etc.)

Customer Reasons for preferring OpenOffice.org to StarOffice A user does not currently have a licensed

competitive commercial product StarOffice is not available in the user’s local

language/on their chosen platform An organization wants to minimize its

acquisition cost A user believes in the principle of open-source

software An organization would like to be able to give

away copiesof the software (e.g., to students, employees, etc.)

StarOffice Extras(StarOffice Features not foundin OpenOffice)

StarOffice Configuration Manager (deployment tools)

Macro Converter

Fonts (including 7 Asian language fonts)

Commercial spell checker, synonym dictionary

More templates and clip art

Sorting functionality (Asian versions)

Certain file filters

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Who Is OpenOffice?

Players Why?

Sun (50) Remove value from the Software value chain

Novell (10) Legitimize the Linux Platform

Red Hat (2) Legitimize the Linux Platform

Intel (1) Agnostic to platforms

Google (1) Hedge their bets= 64 Total Developers

Sun

Novell

Others

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Challenges for OO.o

“Not being Microsoft” is not a value prop Lack of community

This is a Sun project Dependencies on Java (and other non-free software) cause

issuesand riffs in the community

Takers, but not givers IBM leveraging OO.o for Workplace No return of the code to the OO.o community

Overall tension of the “commercialization” of OpenSource “There’s OpenSource and there’s OpenSource” Creating a tension between true “community” projects

and hybrids like OO.o

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OpenOffice Feature Drilldown Act I: The Core of OpenOffice

Act II: New to OpenOffice or 2007

Act III: The End of the Spec

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Act I: The Core Apps

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OpenOffice vs. Office 2007

Feature OpenOffice 2.0 Office 2007Writer vs. Word(Krista Bendig)

«««Formatting and styles

dialogs

««««Track changes / commenting,

Content controlsCalc vs. Excel(Dany Hoter)

«««Database integration,

track changes/doc compare,

multiple operations function

«««« Pivot tables / charts,data visualizations,

OLAP support

Impress/Draw vs. PowerPoint(Nathalie Collins, Lutz Gerhard)

«« Standalone drawing

app,export to Flash and

PDF

««««Table editing,

templates & custom layouts

Programmability(Kevin Boske)

«««Language support,macro migration

wizard,server side run-time

(URE)

««««Ease of use (IDE),

dev scenarios (e.g., events),

broad dev community

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Act II: New to OpenOffice or Office 2007

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Open Document Format vs. Office Open XMLBrian Jones

Open Document Format

Open XML

Originated from StarOffice XML file format

Originated from Microsoft Office XML file format

Submitted to OASIS by Sun Submitted to Ecma international (Dec. 2005)

Files are a combination of ZIP and XML

Files are a combination of ZIP and XML

Very verbose and descriptive tag names

Short tag names for size & performance wins

Large number of namespaces due to reuse of existing standards

SVG; Dublin core; XLink; MathML;XForms; XML-Events; XML SchemaInstance

One or two core namespaces, not much reuse, support for custom XML

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ODF vs. Open XML Example

Numeric ValuesNumeric Values

FormulasFormulas

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File Format PerformanceBrian Jones

DOC DOCX ODTFile Size 23.5 MB 3.3 MB 1.45 MBTime to Open

5 sec 38 sec 320 sec

XLS XLSB XLSX ODSFile Size 13.3

MB4.3 MB

3.8 MB

2.9 MB

Time to Open 1.5 sec

1.5 sec

4 sec 19 sec

Word vs. Writer (2000 Pages - ECMA Documentation):

Excel vs. Calc (21 columns x 12,948 rows - ECMA Database):

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OpenOffice WriterMicrosoft Word

Converts as a 16 page doc with different layout

File Format Compatibility

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Microsoft WordOpenOffice Writer

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2 page resume converts as 3 pageswith layout changes

File Format Compatibility

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OpenOffice CalcMicrosoft Excel

• Pivot Chart is Lost• Pivot Table Converted to

List

File Format Compatibility

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OpenOffice ImpressMicrosoft PowerPoint

File Format Compatibility

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New Features

Feature OpenOffice 2.0 Office 2007Base vs. Access(Zac Woodall)

««Integration across suite, document save model,cross-platform (Mac),developer platform

««««Ease of use/getting

started, multiple data sources,

data import/exportVBA integration

XForms vs. InfoPath(Nick Dallett)

««XForms v1.0,

no template required

«««« Data connectivity,

form authoring,Office integration

Digital Signatures(Jason Cahill)

«Base level of support

(tamper resistant signatures, multiple user

signing,…)

«««Extensibility (UI /

encryption), in-document signatures, two-factor authentication

PDF(Jeff Bell, Cherie Ekholm,Alex Zhu)

«« PDF forms,

native comments, slide transitions

«««PDF/A support,

accessibility support, slide handouts

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Act III: The End of the Spec

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Accessibility

OpenOffice «« Customer appeal:

“Open” Tools | Options for

accessibility Features:

Keyboard accessible tooltips (shift+F1)

Office 2007 ««« Vendor support Usability Features:

MSAA implementation

Focus: visibility and programmatic access

Lou Nell Gerard

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OpenOffice «« Growth of speller

languages (33 to 53 languages in 2 years) Support for 14 languages

not in Office 2007 No reboot required when

you change language settings

Equivalent support for Asian and complex script typography

Internationalization

Office 2007 ««« Current breadth (67) and

depth of speller and proofing tools Language set Handling of apostrophes,

hyphenation, ligatures, etc.

Thesauri and grammar checking

IME support (predictive input)

Richer BiDi support Kashida justification,

Hebrew numbers, find & replace

Set Language and language auto-detect

Yoshikazu Onobori (EA), Imelda Kirby (CS), Thierry Fontenelle and Julian Parish (Proofing)

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Trustworthy Computing

OpenOffice « Faster ship cycles Public bug reporting “We are open and you can

see the source” security defense

2.0 (10/18/05) 2.0.2 (3/8/06): 121 bug fixes 37 new features (minor) 3 documented security

fixes

Office 2007 ««« Reliability built in to

development processes Small working set vs.

OpenOffice On average 57% greater than

Office 2007 (today!) Openly and regularly

communicate security issues and updates

Steve Lantz, Jeff Piira, Ray Fitzgerald

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Deployment

OpenOffice /StarOffice «« MSI-based install Basic transform

customization Java Desktop

Configuration Manager Group Policy competitor

Multi-platform support Windows, Mac, Solaris,

Linux

Office 2007 «««« Robust controller

(setup.exe) Robust patch-based

updates Post-install

customization Source resiliency (LIS) Quicker security

response with patches

Paul C. Barr

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Usability (Pre-OpenOffice 2.0)

Various Studies OpenOffice 1.1

Office 2003

Calc Task Success 49% 43%*Impress Task Success

61% 74%

Satisfaction 53% 81%

Benchmark Study

OpenOffice 1.0

Office 2003

Overall Task Success

60% 73%

Overall Satisfaction

48% 82%

* Difference not significant

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