>>>> http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?art
>>>> icleID=201002048
>>>
>>> Personally, having moved from Linux to Mac OS X mid last 
>>> year, I'd say it was easier for me to move from Windows to 
>>> SuSE than it was from SuSE to Mac OS X.
>>
>> I agree here. Having used FC, SuSE and then Ubuntu for years before
>> moving to OS X, I am much in favour of Ubuntu over OS X. However, there
>> are common problems with peripheral support on Linux that the average
>> mwananchi will suffer with. Then of course, Microsoft Office that is not
>> yet ported to Linux but is available on OS X.
> 
> Switching from M$ Office to OpenOffice is really a total no-brainer. I have 
> yet to meet 1 single person that can not create a document, be it a text or 
> spreadsheet in OpenOffice. 

Not when you have to share documents with folk that use MS Office. Open
office still has many conversion issues with documents created using
MSOffice.

> We switched with the entire company 4 years ago, and never looked back. 

If you chose to share documents only amongst yourselves, or convert to
pdf before sharing, your idea will work.

eb

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