On 7/30/07, Dinesh Joshi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1. With average machines, it performs slow
It is slower than Office 2000 but definitely faster than Office XP. > 2. The documents it generates are not 100% compatible with Ms.Office I'm yet to come across a .doc file Openoffice.org produced that MS word had a problem interpreting. There have been a couple of cases vice-versa, but not too many to be bothered about at all. I'm saying that confidently because my mother transacts about 25-30 word and excel documents with her clients daily. Either ways, introduce him to PDF and he'll soon start circulating all his price sheets, etc in PDF -- PDFs look more official anyways ;) > Another problems that one generally faces is that Linux doesn't always > work out of the box. When it does, it works wonderfully well but when it > comes down to tweaking it to get it to work, its like performing a brain > surgery ( for a newbie ). This is probably one of the more tricky problems. He'll have to refer to (or maintain) a hardware compatibility list to make sure he sells only that hardware which installs without problems on Linux. > The other issue that people in India generally face is of bandwidth. > Ubuntu installs well. It impresses them. But then it runs up HUGE bills > downloading softwares. I guess you pay for it one way or the other ;) -- Siddhesh Poyarekar This document validates as Plain Text -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
