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Re: Economic Times: Goodbye MS Office, hello OpenOffice

> > It's a nice advert for OpenOffice. :-)
>
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> Chirag begs to differ, sadly. When I first looked at the article, I glanced
> over at the Alexa traffic rank of the site, which provides rough insight
> into readership. The site is among the top hundreds of sites, so expect a
> million visitors per day. Good publicity for OO.o. I wonder if the Economic
> Times has a paper-based equivalent, whose content overlap with Web
> publications.

Its because I have lived in India for quite a long time and know what
the users want. Am in constant touch with tech people back there. So I
know what I am talking about. Can you point out what you are referring
to when you say million visitors per day (cut/paste maybe). Do you even
know what is famous on Indiatimes?

Economic Times has a paper based version and The Times of India does
too. Overlap of content - not significantly. Economic Times is not as
famous with individuals as it is with businesses (not necessarily
software/hardware businesses) as is The Times of India. The companies I
dealt with just subscribed to ET/ToI but hardly read it. Nothing much
has changed.

Its not that I want to discourage OSS developers, but what I am saying
is reality. Sitting in your homes/offices and dancing after reading
about OpenOffice in India is not worth the celebration. There needs to
be a lot done, and this particular webpage might do little in our cause
of promoting OSS. Only if you visit India, you would know how
software/hardware market is.


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