With a bit of luck more attention will be drawn to it over time, esp for govts.
I read somewhere that a lot of important information relating to emergency services leading up to the Hurricane at New Orleans was IE only. If you didn't use a Windows PC you had to find a phone number and get passed from dept to dept to get some info if you were lucky. ----- Original Message ----- From: Richard Hosking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: General Practice Computing Group Talk <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 2:26:12 AM Subject: Re: [GPCG_TALK] OpenOffice 2.0 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. >> >> > > >_______________________________________________ >Gpcg_talk mailing list >[email protected] >http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk > > > _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
