anand.vasappanavara wrote:
Greetings from Tata Motors! We are happy to note your foundation's work in developing open office tools for the world. We have been using your tools for my academic& personal activities from some time now. & would like to suggest their introduction for its use for professional work in our company.
Thanks for your appreciation! I'm removing the security list from the recipients, since it is a confidential channel related to security incidents only.
We would hence like to know the answers to the following question to acess the feasibility
Sure. Just remember that my statements here, as virtually all communication on our mailing lists, do not constitute legal advice or official answers. For that, you should read, e.g., the full license text at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html or the source code.
1. What are the additional licensing, permissions requirements to be factored if any
None (of course, I recommend that you read the license).
2. Can the employees use Open Office tools freely to perform their commercial work
Yes, definitely. The Apache License is permissive and business-friendly, and it gives maximum freedom to the user.
3. Is there any risk of office data leaking via the internet while using the Open tools
No. Services that connect to the Internet (such as the update notification service) do not disclose personal private data or documents data.
4. Are there any organizations where open office is ready used for professional work
Yes, so many that we actually have trouble in keeping the list up-to-date... Anyway you can find an outdated list at
http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Major_OpenOffice.org_Deployments
5. Are there any annual maintenance or up-gradation services which can be offered
Sure, but not from this project directly. We do maintain a list of consultants at http://www.openoffice.org/bizdev/consultants.html but for corporate-grade support you might also be contacted by companies that employ full-time OpenOffice developers. Employees from these companies already read our mailing lists.
You can also support the project by sponsoring development, or contributing developers or translators or other resources for QA or marketing... Feel free to write again (the "dev" list is enough) if you would like to know more about this.
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