atw: Re: Demo of OpenOffice.org

I can just see Steve and Jean on TV  ----  something along the lines of 
the current PC and  Apple discussion. 

There would be a series of about a dozen film clips each on one topic. 
When a clip came on  we would all be sitting there at home trying to guess 
which topic it was going to be this time. 

Irene Wong
Publishing Manager
Office of Corporate Affairs, Sydney
Australian Securities & Investments Commission
02 9911 2601   (internally dial 22601)



 
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Jean, from my perspective, I need to see that OO is a viable alternative 
to
the existing paradigm. I have a large legacy suite of documents covering a
wide spectrum of MS Office capabilities. I need calculate the effort
involved to change SOE, and my long term cost for doing so. By all means,
discuss any topics here that you feel are unsuitable for your main
presentation :-)


Security: what effort has been made to protect the user from 'macro 
virii'?
How strong is the document password protection? In your own code, how are
passwords protected? Can you protect IP embodied in code? Could you write 
a
malicious macro?
 

Platforms: Can I use OO: in a server context? (Eg Exchange, Sharepoint,
InfoPath equivalents) Is there a CE for palmies? Does it run on: Intel/AMD
(from pentium 1 forwards, screw the ATO's needs lol), Std Macs, consoles?
Can OO run multiple thin clients with a lightweight resource footprint? 
Does
OO run through a web interface as per all MS Office components? Is there 
an
OS Citrix equivalent and does OO run through Citrix with multiple 
concurrent
users? Is there a distributed solutions framework?


Word compatibility. Load a rich styled document, a complex template
including boilerplate and the like, an interactive form and a master
document, all created in Word. Discuss macro compatibility. List macro
resources and contrast to Word.

Quick demo of the drawing tools to create any ISO flowchart and the 
linking
or embedding of this into a document. List import gfx formats natively
supported and list some available plug-ins for the others.

Demo the numbering stability and how to set numbering styles.

Show a simple mail merge from an OS DB.

Demo formatting an unstyled document. Those of used to the new Task Pains 
in
Word have a nice tool for doing that - does OO?

Whack out an interactive pdf, rtf, a web site and XML. Discuss other 
export
formats.

Demonstrate setting up a default complex autoformatted table.

Briefly discuss how OO bugs are raised, fixed and deployment of the fixes.
Briefly discuss other support options.

Demonstrate features unique to OO. Very quick demo of a OO viewer-only
application.

What developer tools are available? Do they compare favorably to Visual
Studio? Is there an equivalent to the Office Resource Kits and MSDN /
Technet? Where is the KB and how good is it?


Briefly discuss who is driving innovations and how. Or is this just 
another
R&D effort (ripoff and duplicate, no originality guarenteed, always going 
to
be playing catchup to the professionals)? 
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