It will still take some time. That means some money. Some money is more than
no money. No money is how much it cost to leave the current system in place.
$0.01 > $0. No matter how *little* it costs, it will always cost more than
nothing.
Reasons to migrate:
1. you need to open 2k/xp versions of the .doc 'standard' and you've
only paid for Office '97, you've got the choice of continuing to send it
back and telling people to downgrade the format (embarrassing),
upgrading to the latest and greatest from our buddies at Redmond (very
expensive), or installing OOo.
2. OOo and Star Office have Sun behind them, so the big company
requirement of an acceptable suite is covered
3. Sun will actually support Star Office (gasp), as opposed to
Microsoft's 'support' for their products.
4. So-called power users of Excel would make up maybe 1% of users? Is
that a good enough reason to buy MSO for the other 99%? I think not. I
was actually shocked at how similar OOo 2 is to MSO. The object bar is
gone thanks to this compatibility (grr) but it's incredibly similar, and
users I've seen have been very happy with the similarities. If you've
trained people for MSO, they'll be able to use OOo immediately.
5. When you come across yet another document written in Word 2, Word 5
or Word 6 which won't open properly in XP, it is because of the use of a
proprietary format that MS got wrong either deliberately or through
incompetence.
6. Corrupted Word 2k/XP document will often open easily with OOo but not
at all with XP.
7. The OOo formats are open, and thus absolutely guaranteed 100%
backwards compatible for future versions.
8. Remember Melissa and family?
That's all I can think of in a few minutes, but I'm sure there's many more.
Mike Williams
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