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ODF Vs. OOXML File Counts On the Web 154

Posted by kdawson on Friday August 17, 2007 @02:54PM from the numbers-not-lying dept.

mrcgran writes "In eight months since Office 2007 was released to the general public (10 months since release to enterprise customers), there are fewer than 2,000 of these office documents posted on the Web. In the last three months, 13,400 more ODF documents have been added to the Web, with only 1,329 OOXML documents added. It would be hard for the Microsoft camp to spin ten times as many ODF documents added as OOXML documents, especially since 34% of those new documents were added on Microsoft.com. That isn't what I would call good traction for Microsoft's overwhelmingly dominant office suite."

Comment Re:Very sound economics (Score 1) 109

by rme on Tuesday November 16, 1999 @08:30PM (#1527163) Attached to: SGI to Build Commercial Linux Supercomputers

There aren't going to be 10 zillion developers working on machines with hundreds of processors, multiple terabytes of disk, and who-knows-how-much tape storage. Your average developer isn't going to have access to such a machine.

It may be true that Linux and the BSDs will scale to this level of system in the future, but it will be due to companies like SGI spending lots of money funding that development work.

Personally, I don't see how SGI's new-found Linux enthusiasm is evidence of an economically sound strategy. Re-implementing big iron features of IRIX for for Linux is going to be costly and time-consuming.

But, I think that SGI is after the applications that will run on Linux, and believes that it's worth it to fix up Linux to run on big machines in order to get access to that application base.

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