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Headline Information
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4/29/02 We're not managing this as a "project" any more. Now
we're managing it as a piece of third party software.
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Project Description
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Through user surveys, focus groups, support requests, and informal
feedback, the MIT community has expressed the need for an office
productivity suite on Athena which provides document compatibility
with and similar functionality to certain components of Microsoft
Office. This project will clarify thaat need, identify one or more
software products that fill it, create a plan for appropriate
integration into the Athena environment, and establish mechanisms for
future vendor/author maintenance and support.
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Checkpoint 1:
Evaluation Criteria Set.
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Start Date
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End Date
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1-Jun-2000
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31-Aug-2000
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Hold meetings to establish:
- Criteria for Evaluation.
- Operational and Integration Issues.
- Sorting of issues to match service levels with show stoppers.
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Draft, Revise, and Publish the documents that comprise the
deliverables.
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Get signoff from Sponsor to proceed to next checkpoint.
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Checkpoint 2:
Service Level: Basic Support
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Start Date
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End Date
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31-May-2000
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~31-Aug-2000
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Actual
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Productivity Suite chosen.
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Productivity Suite deployed in a third party software locker
for user testing.
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Sign off from Sponsor, and Service and Support stakeholders
on going live with this service level.
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Resolve show stopper issues.
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Meet and come to agreement that all stakeholders are on board
at this service level.
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Checkpoint 3:
Service Level: Recommended Product
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Start Date
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End Date
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31-Aug-2000
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15-Dec-2000
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Actual
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Resolution of show-stopper issues associated with this higher service
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Sign off from Sponsor, and Service and Support stakeholders
on going live with this service level.
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Resolve show stopper issues.
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Meet and come to agreement that all stakeholders are on board
at this service level.
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Checkpoint 4:
Service Level: Ubiquitous Product
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Start Date
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End Date
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15-Dec-2000
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~31 May 2001
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Actual
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Identification of platforms requiring ports of productivity suite.
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Co-development agreement in place for porting.
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Resolution of show-stopper issues associated with this higher service
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Sign off from Sponsor, and Service and Support stakeholders
on going live with this service level.
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Resolve show stopper issues.
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Meet and come to agreement that all stakeholders are on board
at this service level.
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Detailed Status
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- 4/29/02: Officially terminate the project and bring notebook up
to date.
- 7/19/00 - 4/28/02 Ongoing discussions about place of
StarOffice, and relationship with OpenOffice. Ultimate decision:
Allow StarOffice/OpenOffice to be driven by usual 3rd party
software processes.
- 4/2/02: OpenOffice 641d installed. wdc confirms it fixes the
show stopper. Testing continues.
- 3/25/02: wdc tests OpenOffice 641c and finds show-stopper bug:
menus don't work under sawfish window manager with "follow mouse
focus policy".
- 2/14/02: OpenOffice 641c installed and testing begins.
- 12/31/01: StarOffice 6 Beta program closes with never a fix to
our problem, and no opportunity ever to test it.
- 10/24/01: Report bug in StarOffice 6 Beta that makes it
impossible to install multi-user.
- 10/6/01: MIT Joins StarOffice 6 Beta
- 7/20/01: OpenOffice with critical mass of features released.
- 4/16/01: Publish current list of StarOffice issues.
- 1/8/01: wdc proposes slower approach to StarOffice focusing on
6.0 rather than remedies for 5.
- 9/25/00: Publish master list of issues in StarOffice 5.2
(organized by priority.)
- 8/30/00: Published criteria for evaluating StarOffice (or any
office productivity suite, actually).
- 8/4/00: Tested StarOffice 5.2
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Project Detail Pages
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Contact Info
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Email:
apse@mit.edu
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