On Sat, 2005-09-03 at 19:56 -0400, Don Parris wrote: [snip] > In my book, "Penguin in the Pew" (a.k.a., PitP), I have a table > demonstrating that the amount of productivity lost (on average), due > to > adjusting to the differences between Msft Office and OpenOffice.org, > is > really not all that great, and is frequently less than perceived. > The > point was that, even given the adjustment period of a couple of > weeks, > not all productivity is lost. Many scenarios that suggest it is more > costly to retrain for the new office suite seem to assume a 100% loss > in > productivity. This is absolutely not true. > [snip]
I am in the middle of a series of roadshows in my day job. The exhibitors all prepared rolling presentations in Powerpoint / NT. The laptops hired for the events all ran XP. Guess what? all the presentations had differences in how they ran. Every enforced upgrade from Microsoft has compatibility issues and is an opportunity for us. John --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
