On 13/10/2010 23:41, NoOp wrote: .....
That said; converting near 20,000 systems over to OOo requires more than $$ and understandably is a very difficult task. To do it in a school district would be considerably harder than in a corporate environment; you have parents, students, teachers, admin, state& local government - who often run antiquated programs/macros, etc. Perhaps if Sun Microsystems/Oracle would have put a dedicated team in to assist the story may have been different...
You know, that reminded me of when I left university and took up my first job. It was /perfectly/ clear to me that the interactive editor (necessarily a primitive beast in those days) at work was /vastly/ inferior to the one I'd been using at uni'. Of course, it wasn't - it was just very different, and even - as I found out - had certain relative merits. But it took time to learn.
As my boss pointed out, "what you know is always the best"; well, I guess we can see what he meant, and it's valid now as then.
So the more who can be persuaded to use a zero-cost solution /at home/, the more pressure on commercial organizations to use what's "known" as the lower-training-cost solution. And 'free' trumps even an 80% discount on Office :-)
But I guess we knew that anyway. -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex, England --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
