We need more distribuited knowledge of macros, more resources on the web
teaching and preaching OOoBasic. OOoBasic in principle is very similar to VBA
and the differences could be easily pointed out.
The issue comes when:
a) not many resources around the web
b) not much support around the web
c) no formal trainning around the world
d) not sexy enough...
So by that I mean that if I am an accountant I can go to any of the hundred
comptuters schools and learn macros for MSO, how easy is to teach that
from any
of the Sun trainning partners?
New bread of computer institutes based on open source want to provide the
solution. It sure is a business opportunity, but even they struggle to compile
all the information about macros, is still too obscured, not localized yet and
resources are scarse.
We have OOoMacros, Andrews Book and OOoForum support, but away from
that, it has
been dificult to go organized this into new books/tutorials, and simple
digestable non-programmer literature to program on OpenOffice.org.
This again might be a great opportunity to build new software based on top of
OpenOffice.org or URE to generate Wizards, to generate Behaviors and to
provide
a more friendly development platform.
Quoting Erwin Tenhumberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Hi Mark,
We (Sun + migration partners) are currently helping several
OpenOffice.org and StarOffice enterprise and government
users with their (macro) migrations.
As was already mentioned here on the list, we are working
on macro migration tools. The migration results based on
the files that we are getting via our migration partners
are very promising. Thus, why do you think it would be
difficult to use StarOffice instead of OpenOffice.org?
What are the objections? Since you say it's one of the
top 100 companies, per-seat license costs for StarOffice
should be fairly low!
Best regards,
Erwin
Mark Harrison wrote:
Hi all,
I had lunch today with the IT Director (English Term - US Equivalent of CIO)
of one of the UK's top 100 companies today.
One of the thing that came up was Office suites, and it turns out that he
uses OOo at home, and is very impressed.
His comments included things like:
- We could give this to 90% of our users, and they wouldn't know the
difference [from MSO]
- Our problem would be the "power users" who've developed macros,
particularly accountants
- The biggest cost would be the costs of changing, so the time would be when
we need to upgrade for other reasons.
What I'd like to do is go back to him in the next few weeks with a more
formal pitch to start a proper "OOo evaluation project" with which,
naturellement, my consultancy will be happy to help :-) I put this last
comment in to make sure that I'm being open that this message is VERY
self-serving before anyone spends time helping under the impression I'm
doing this for the good of humanity :-)
So, the questions are:
- Any hope in hell for tools to aid migration from VBA (particularly in
Excel) into OOo?
- Any case studies of large (10,000 seats +) organisations moving.
Please note that the "buying signs" from him were specificially about OOo,
and NOT StarOffice - he was well aware of the difference between the two,
and thought that OOo seemed, strategically, a better way to go... the
question is whether / when it will be good enough to topple the incumbent.
M.
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