Here's something relevant I think...adresses some of Nick's concerns... http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-08-21-005-26-NW-BZ-DT&tbovrmode=1#talkback_area
Nick Rout wrote: >>Here here, it PISSES me off that Linux isn't really taken seriously on >>the desktop as I happily use it everyday. > > > > The answer is, IMHO, twofold. > > 1. legacy business data - the main one being ms word documents. Do not > try and sell me linux or open source word processors that will open > complex word documents 100% correct every time. It does not happen. I > have 171MB legacy word docs that I may want to use at any time,thats > right goddamn now, not once I have fiddled around for twenty minutes > resetting stuff or finding where the headers & footers & para numbereing went. > > 2 closely allied, training. The average secretary/wp operator etc is not > as adept at change as a geek who likes to fiddle and is prepared to play > with some software for hours playing with the features, finding how it > works etc. I don't have time to train my secretary on openoffice or > retrain her on word perfect (she probably last used 5.1). Put most > office workers in fronnt of a new program and they spin out. > > Now theres a lot happening to the desktop and its better every day. But > Neal's article was about what is REALLY happening in business out there > NOW. What is really happening in businesses is services - mail, file, > print, database. It is a positive spin for linux so I wonder why it is > getting bashed?? > > P.S If I was setting up my own business now I probably would go for > star/open office on linux, but now its too hard to change. > -- > Nick Rout > Barrister & Solicitor > Christchurch, NZ > Ph +64 3 3798966 > Fax + 64 3 3798853 > http://www.rout.co.nz >
