They’re done by multiple people working on a project at once. Essentially,
Open Office is fine if you have very limited needs because it was really
designed around what Microsoft Office products were designed around 10
years ago.”
So can we have some examples please?
“The Microsoft Office product line has gone way beyond that to serve
multiple constituencies. We have a home and student version. We have small
business versions. We have multiple enterprise versions. It has gone on to
encompass working with quite a bit of server software to encompass the
real challenges that businesses have today.”
Was it my imagination or Yates never really answer the question. Or does
he means we were all individuals in the past and now we are students and
workers, or did he just validated the point that collaboration is only on
the enterprise and that there is no clear focus on small business and
students?
Also when it comes to cost why they never pull the figures. According to
some of our window shopping we found that a 5 licenceses of M$ Office cost
around 2500 USD plust about 1/2 day hours to install on this 5 clients
which might be up to 80 USD.
For OOo Trainning we found that it cost 300 usd for a trainning session
and 500 for a full course at least in most countries of Latin America.
M$ has a pricing on trainning of 600 but we dont include it since we
assume people know all this.
Document conversion is an automated part of OOo so migration of document
is marginal 80 USD, and 80USD on installation as individual.
The totall cost came up to 800 USD vs. 2500 USD. If you add some
consulting on macro converstion or generation you have a budget of almost
1700 USD which is about 4 days of support at 425 which is by LA an
excellent pricing or will be the equial of 3 workstations at 566 USD.
I think we do lack some of this pricing, of course the argument is that it
might vary from country to country however I dont think even in the US or
UK you can exceed the cost of licensing. I guess the weakest link comes to
narrowing down the price of making a OOoBasic Macro -- or migrate one. I
know the usual pricing is around 80 - 150 USD / day. And a macro usually
can be written in 5 working days tops.
Also take notice that this 2500 USD is for the SMB version of MSO, the
enterpirse Gold version is aroun 700 USD (200 USD more or 1000 USD more
for our 5 clients).
--
Alexandro Colorado
CoLeader of OpenOffice.org ES
http://es.openoffice.org
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
