John Thompson wrote:
Office 2007 has also added pdf support, albeit as a plugin. Default
galleries, fonts, functions, etc are well included in here too. Microsoft
also offers higher functionality in terms of components: Sharepoint
Designer, Visio, Project, InfoPath, Publisher, OneNote.
I'm sure that's all great, but you're comparing apples and oranges here.
Not only that, but that "additional functionality" is either currently
available in OOo,or can be emulated by using another program.
MSO 2007 is a collection of programs. One can combine OOo with a group
of other programs to have the same functionality as the collection that
MSO has. On second thoughts, _better_ functionality, because the other
programs can be selected according to specific requirements of the user.
can be run quite well on older hardware. Not every buisness or home user
can afford to dump their investment in current hardware and software to
buy Vista PCs and Office2007.
Most business do their IT on a three or five year cycle. They won't
upgrade or replace all of their hardware and software in a single year.
[Organizations that migrate to OOo can do so within a matter of months,
because it either runs on existing hardware and operating system, or
that hardware/operating system is scheduled to be replaced that year.]
I don't remember the date that the next big batch of Microsoft licences
expires, but until licences expire, it isn't cost effective for a
company to migrate to Vista/MSO2007, or any other platform.
The marketing project should be planning a corporate blitz six to nine
months before those licences expire. There are major financial reasons
for companies to switch to Linux/OOo instead of Vista/MSO 2007. The big
hurdles is knowing what _significant_ MSO functionality OOo lacks,and
being able to provide that functinoality in a separate FLOSS program, if
it doesn't fit into OOo.
xan
jonathon
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