Hello Ritesh,
Thank you for sharing your inspirational story. It is always great to
hear of successful migrations to OOo around the world! I hope it
continues to be a beneficial resource for your business.
It sounds like the internal mailing list is a great way for employees
to help each other with the learning curve. Are there other practices
you've implemented to help with that?
How have you found the size and activity of the community of OOo users
in Mumbai?
-Ben
On Dec 31, 2008, at 8:42 AM, Ritesh Verma wrote:
Hello all,
First of all many congratulations for achieving this 'herculean'
task of
making OpenOffice a great success.
I work as IT Manager in my organisation, which has main office at
Mumbai,
India; and project offices spread across India. I came across
OpenOffice
in Aug-07, during my quest for alternative to MS Office, so pretty
new to
OOo. But yes it did not took much time to realise the capability of
OOo
and open source. After working for 2 months on OOo, i approached my
management with a proposal of migrating all users to OOo with a
comparison
of licensing cost of purchasing MS Office, to which management
agreed and
gave a go ahead. The user base is around 250 users spread across the
country, and with the release of OOo 3.0, 95% of the users are today
working on OOo 3.0. It was ofcourse not easy task as we had to go
through
long process of convincing users to move to new platform, but yes we
managed that. The remaining 5% users had to be kept on MS Office
because
of some issues with the applications being used such as Oracle Apps
users
and few other applications.
Over a period of time, every day has been a new learning experience
and
whatever things we come across during the normal course of using the
software, we share it with all the users (there is an internal mailing
list, by which all users share info).
So far so good....but yes there are lot of issues working with
'Impress'
as most of the presentations were made in Powerpoint, so there are
formatting issues. I hope that in due course those issues will also be
taken care by the OOo Development team.
I was unable to share this info earlier as uptill now we had been
busy in
making users comfortable using OOo and sorting out their problems.
So now
there is some time available which can be utilized to try and
contribute
to the OOo community.
Thanks again.
Regards,
Ritesh Verma
IOT Infrastructure and Energy Services Ltd.,
(formerly Indian Oiltanking Ltd.)
103, Spectra, Hiranandani,
Powai, Mumbai 400076 India
Tel: +91 22 66772700
Fax: +91 22 66919599
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