This is common even in the commercial world.
I tried to order some electronic components thru Farnell, whose main
*business* is online ordering. They admitted that the only browser that
would work was IE and had no plans to upgrade to others - didnt see the
business need.
Richard
Neil D. McAliece wrote:
If I looked at another commercial alternative, I would like it to be a bit more cross platform. Indesign is available for Mac & Windows but not Linux.
I think we have more chance of changing to Linux than changing to Mac. I like
OSX. I would like it a lot more if it wasn't bound to Apple hardware.
I was just hit with another annoyance. Govt departments who only test their web
apps against IE. One of our users was trying to get some EPC stats from the
Dept of Health site but all of the drop down lists were empty in Firefox. The
contact person at thier end couldn't shed any light on why there was nothing in
the lists. I asked our user to try it in IE and it worked fine :(
Cheers,
Neil
----- Original Message -----
From: Andre Duszynski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], General Practice Computing Group Talk
<[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, 29 November 2005 3:29:36 PM
Subject: Re: [GPCG_TALK] OpenOffice 2.0
Regarding the use of MS Publisher, this program has to be the worst of
the legacy MS products that somehow still exists to this day.
I wouldn't bother looking for a product that offers feature parity and
the capability of importing MS Pub files; suggest rather that you make a
clean break to a proper WYSIWYG product. As a not-for-profit, the MDGP
should be able to afford Adobe InDesign at academic pricing. The
learning curve will not be too dissimilar to picking up Scribus and has
the added benefit of offering staff an entry point into a widely used
(and held) desktop publishing package; PDF, web, deadwood, whatever...
Quark Xpress in this regard is dead, as is Adobe Pagemaker which is EOL.
And no, Indesign doesn't do clipart :-)
-------------
Neil D. McAliece wrote:
<SNIP>
The other main problem is the few user we have who use (and are probably
commited to using) MS Publisher. Scribus makes a fantastic alternative, but
will require some training and it will not open Publisher docs.
Neil McAliece
Murrumbidgee Division of General Practice
----- Original Message -----
From: Ian Cheong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: General Practice Computing Group Talk <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, 28 November 2005 11:05:39 PM
Subject: Re: [GPCG_TALK] OpenOffice 2.0
<snip quote>
More like training a staff member to use OOO was going to cost more
dollars or time than the cost of the academic edition of M$ Office.
The network externalities effects make unseating an incumbent a very
long-term project (years-decades).
As well as that, it is general human nature to desire to learn from
personal mistakes rather than the wisdom and experience of those that
have gone before. It's probably a power and control thing that dates
to teenagerdom.
BTW, here's an interesting "switch" story over several weeks from an
IT security consultant.
http://securityawareness.blogspot.com/2005/09/mad-as-hell-switching-to-mac-1-16.html
I am amazed how bad Windows XP is. No doubt, Longhorm will have a lot
of badness still bred into it, but that won't stop people forking out!
Ian.
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