On Tue, 02 Nov 2010, Peter Rodwell wrote: > Quoting Marc Paré: > > > And yes, MSO format conversions are not 100% and where there are > > power users like Peter, it may be difficult to rationalize using > > LibO when his customers are unwilling to adopt an ODF format > > which would simply work. There is always the option for Peter to > > propose a change in office suite to his clients and suggest that > > a free migration to LibO would save them quite a bit in > > expenditures and would still provide them with the same > > functionality as MSO but using the ODF formats instead. > > My clients are mostly major corporations who don't tend to welcome > IT strategy suggestions from their suppliers! Sure, they're aware > of OO and open source in general but they're not planning to change > anytime soon. This is not because they've been brainwashed by MS; > it's mostly because they can't afford (financially and timewise) > the risk of having to re-train thousands of users with the > productivity drop that this would involve. > Yes sounds good. How did the city of Munich change 14,000 PC to OOo?
I do think where there is a willing there will be a way. If Govermnet Authorities can change, why can't a corporation change. Is it what people decide or the company? After all the employees would have to retrain or learn or loose their job, not body is irreplacable. I have heard often enough talk about big Corporations and all that and yet see the world change to the point where no force was used, besides I don't believe that all employees are stupid or lazy when it comes to learningt something new. I am retired and so don't have to listen too all such talk. One thing I have seen that many here in Europe changed to OOo, not only that it was free but it also was more stable and usable then M$ Office. What about the Open Source and all that is going on. I doubt that it can be closed down, and remember years agao when it started and all the big guns smiled and thought it was just some silly nerd event. I use LaTeX and vi or vim. My usage of a Office Suite is limited, but again on the other hand I deal with many that have taken to OOo and use it and I find it was something wothwile for people wiht little budgets as well havin cleaner sofrtware to boot with. M$ is not the allmighty anynore by a long shot. Also does anyone listen ot "enduser"? I thin that is where there is a big black hole too. Sorry, but this is my 2c worth as a enduser. Ernst -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments < ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org -- Unsubscribe instructions: Email to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines: http://netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html Archive: http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived ***
