On Tue, 09 Sep 2008 08:15:52 +1200 Michael Adams increased personal carbon footprint by exciting electrons the world over with these memorable words:
> On Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:34:55 +0100 > Prem Kumar increased personal carbon footprint by exciting electrons > the world over with these memorable words: > > > Hi > > > > I want just know this open office its free for business around 100 > > users ya we will buy license . > > > > And how much per license. > > > > As per Ian Lynch's reply OpenOffice.org is free to download, install > on as many computers as you like and even give burned copies on disk > to your employees to take home. > > Furthermore it will run on computers beside existing copies of > Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint. > > One thing you should consider however is establishing a proper > migration proceedure. > wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Migration_Documents > > documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/oooauthors2/0600MG-MigrationGuid > e. pdf > > You will find two types of people will not migrate easily. Power Users > (those that heavily use macro's, styles, or other esoteric features) > and those users (15%+/-) that are resistant to change for various > reasons(some which are legitimate). > > You should have in place proceedures to handle both the above users > including an allocation of training time for both. > > The good news is approximately 80% of your existing userbase will be > able to migrate over to OpenOffice.org without difficulty. > One thing i should have added is that the migration path from Microsoft Office 97, 2000, XP or 2003 to OpenOffice.org is less training intensive than a migration to Microsoft Office 2007 (anecdotally). -- Michael All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well - Julian of Norwich 1342 - 1416 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
