What M$ is *actually* doing is **FINALLY** ditching the MS-DOS that has been secretly running under each version of Windows since the beginning (like the over-worked hamster family secretly hidden in every Prius) and they are now going to start using DR-DOS underneath it all. They are just going to pay the $25,000 Buy Out cost for DR-DOS and be done with it all once and for all. Obviously, ^THAT^ is where all the incompatibilities will stem from...
I hate to be the math wizard here, but given that the MSO version before 2007 was 2003 - exactly how many years do you think there was during which M$ "evolved" their product?
As I do the math (let me go find my calculator), it seems like if OO has looked the "same" for 3 years, then it's still got a full year to go before it is on par with M$, and that's with OO being a volunteer effort - not one where a bunch of M$ code monkeys have been paid big bucks to make MSO harder (albeit prettier) for me to use!!
According to their press site:
OpenOffice.org version 1.0 was released as open-source software on May 1st 2002. It proved hugely successful, and after more than 49 million recorded downloads, version 2.0 was released on 20th October 2005 If memory serves, there was MSO 2000, 2003, then 2007 - or 3 then 4 years between. Assuming an implied release date of September 2, 2008, the OO project has gone down from 3.5 years between releases (from 1.0 to 2.0) to just under 3 - OO is getting faster while M$ would appear to be getting slower...
I just think we should cut the people that do this for the good of a planet a little slack when they are actually executing faster on releases than over-paid M$ keyboard smashers are...
First, I have a great deal of respect for you and your company. I feel COREL has been making improvements to its software and I wish you further future success.... To that end, it is my humble opinion that the way to make Corel Linux as big as M$ Windoze and not background noise like OS/2, Java OS, AOL OS, or any of the other attempts to win the OS "King of the Mountain" game is simple: GAME SUPPORT! Please give consideration to either: 1. Buying Loki Games for perhaps a million shares of Corel (Once you announce intent to buy them, the value of Corel Stock should increase, there by increasing the value of the deal) OR... 2. Develop your own "Gaming Division".
As I understand it, Corel intends to dominate the HOME desktop. You received a very favorable review from Cnet.com. This is good, but don't stop there. The reason M$ has "Age of Empires" & "Flight Simulator" is not to make money (although I'm sure that make some profit) but to UNDERSTAND gaming needs. Home Computers need Game Support. Even if there was a poll that said "43% of American households do not intend to play games on their home PC", the poll would not tell you that the majority of those homes also have their son, neighbor, or some other Geek friend advise them on to what to buy. That Geek that is doing the recommendation does play games so what he will recommend is what he knows, which will be a platform with Game Support. My question is: What does Corel intend to do about Game Support for its distribution of Linux?
My second humble recommendation would be to encourage AOL to develop a Linux Port. Then you could distribute AOL & Corel Linux CD-ROMs in the Magazines, get a beach head in the Home PC Market, and then make your money selling your peerless software (CorelDraw, etc) in a market without M$ competition. The other advantage would be: If Corel Linux was the OS, AOL was the network connection, and TW was the content provider through a Cable Modem, you could develop a very nice ASP situation where the typical home user would pay a flat $50 bucks a month for Internet access and over the network use of WP, Corel Draw, etc. This would: 1. Lower your cost of distribution since there would be no CDs to ship and AOL could provide "Online Documentation" 2. Lower your tech support costs since Corel & AOL would take care of patches etc on the Application Servers and you'd know that there would be not M$ caused glitches. 3. Allow you to make true penetration into the home market while making millions of people's lives easier and making a tidy profit in the mean time.
My question is: Do you know if AOL plans to develop a Linux Port soon?
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What M$ is *actually* doing is **FINALLY** ditching the MS-DOS that has been secretly running under each version of Windows since the beginning (like the over-worked hamster family secretly hidden in every Prius) and they are now going to start using DR-DOS underneath it all. They are just going to pay the $25,000 Buy Out cost for DR-DOS and be done with it all once and for all. Obviously, ^THAT^ is where all the incompatibilities will stem from...
As I do the math (let me go find my calculator), it seems like if OO has looked the "same" for 3 years, then it's still got a full year to go before it is on par with M$, and that's with OO being a volunteer effort - not one where a bunch of M$ code monkeys have been paid big bucks to make MSO harder (albeit prettier) for me to use!!
According to their press site: OpenOffice.org version 1.0 was released as open-source software on May 1st 2002. It proved hugely successful, and after more than 49 million recorded downloads, version 2.0 was released on 20th October 2005 If memory serves, there was MSO 2000, 2003, then 2007 - or 3 then 4 years between. Assuming an implied release date of September 2, 2008, the OO project has gone down from 3.5 years between releases (from 1.0 to 2.0) to just under 3 - OO is getting faster while M$ would appear to be getting slower...
I just think we should cut the people that do this for the good of a planet a little slack when they are actually executing faster on releases than over-paid M$ keyboard smashers are...
Just my 2 cents
First, I have a great deal of respect for you and your company. I feel COREL has been making improvements to its software and I wish you further future success....
To that end, it is my humble opinion that the way to make Corel Linux as big as M$ Windoze and not background noise like OS/2, Java OS, AOL OS, or any of the other attempts to win the OS "King of the Mountain" game is simple: GAME SUPPORT!
Please give consideration to either:
1. Buying Loki Games for perhaps a million shares of Corel (Once you announce intent to buy them, the value of Corel Stock should increase, there by increasing the value of the deal)
OR...
2. Develop your own "Gaming Division".
As I understand it, Corel intends to dominate the HOME desktop. You received a very favorable review from Cnet.com. This is good, but don't stop there. The reason M$ has "Age of Empires" & "Flight Simulator" is not to make money (although I'm sure that make some profit) but to UNDERSTAND gaming needs. Home Computers need Game Support. Even if there was a poll that said "43% of American households do not intend to play games on their home PC", the poll would not tell you that the majority of those homes also have their son, neighbor, or some other Geek friend advise them on to what to buy. That Geek that is doing the recommendation does play games so what he will recommend is what he knows, which will be a platform with Game Support.
My question is: What does Corel intend to do about Game Support for its distribution of Linux?
My second humble recommendation would be to encourage AOL to develop a Linux Port. Then you could distribute AOL & Corel Linux CD-ROMs in the Magazines, get a beach head in the Home PC Market, and then make your money selling your peerless software (CorelDraw, etc) in a market without M$ competition. The other advantage would be: If Corel Linux was the OS, AOL was the network connection, and TW was the content provider through a Cable Modem, you could develop a very nice ASP situation where the typical home user would pay a flat $50 bucks a month for Internet access and over the network use of WP, Corel Draw, etc.
This would:
1. Lower your cost of distribution since there would be no CDs to ship and AOL could provide "Online Documentation"
2. Lower your tech support costs since Corel & AOL would take care of patches etc on the Application Servers and you'd know that there would be not M$ caused glitches.
3. Allow you to make true penetration into the home market while making millions of people's lives easier and making a tidy profit in the mean time.
My question is: Do you know if AOL plans to develop a Linux Port soon?