On 12/31/2012 05:04 AM, anand.vasappanav...@tatamotors.com wrote:
Dear Andrea,
Greetings from Tata Motors!
Thank you for your reply & wish you a happy & a prosperous new year 2013.
Please do not mind me asking but can you let me know your views on Libre Office
(documentation foundation) & Open Office org (Apache foundation)
As we are deciding to roll out Open source office tools to our employees, which
do you feel would be more beneficial to a large business organizations.
What about the security associated with the extensions of these tools are they
safe, can they leak our professional info like those free android apps?
We am trying to bring about the use of open source tools for productivity,
creativity - traditionally possible with MS Office & Adobe in our company.
If the Open Source usage drive is successful in one Tata company, it will then
rapidly penetrate into our other 70 odd companies in India & the world.
Have a pleasant day ahead
Anand Vasappanavara
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On 12/29/2012 5:51 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote:
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.
Regards,
Andrea.
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