-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 phil bogle wrote:
> could switch over 100 clients (at least 200 installations) to Open > Office if I had some good comprehensive training programs. This is one area that OOo falls short on. INGOTS is about the best training program that can be used by third parties. However, it is geared towards educational institutions, and not the corporate environment. :( OOoAuthors is producing documentation, but not for the power user in a corporate environment. (That documentation works fine for the "average" user in a corporate environment.) There used to be (maybe still is) a set of videos on using OOo, that was commercially distributed. I don't remember the name of the organization that produced them, though. :( > Lynda.com or VTC.com are quality companies and would do a good product. > Both companies are looking for presenter / trainers if you have the > inclination. Interesting. > more effort needs to go into building demand for Open Office. This gets back to "how does an organization do mass marketing, when their budget is zero dollars and zero cents?" > With a high demand we could have a distribution pie to slice. One issue I see is in migrating to OOo from whatever Office Suite the organization has been using. There are two or three books on migrating, but no migration tools. Migrating an office is easy. Migrating legacy documents is not easy. In an ideal world, there would be a tool that reads in the legacy documents, and outputs that document in both PDF and ODF format. > Another help would be for a certified expert program like MySQL and others > have. This would help > build the demand for the product. +1 xan jonathon -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGwew12o2GPyX/pG0RAkZsAJ4+kZwS6rKG+xquybbs9FpYldU+vQCfapZi 8DtFuKiZ+GSbAgChJ5X0Yk0= =s3Q+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
