Thank you for sharing this. We now have two White Paper on LibreOffice migrations.
Cheers Immanuel ------------------------------------------------------------------------ M. / Mr. Immanuel Giulea, BComm Ville Mont-Royal, QC 514-577-2669 On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 12:17 AM, dbclinton <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Tim, > Thanks for your note. I believe that my source was > http://www.idealware.org/**articles/msoffice_vs_**openoffice.php<http://www.idealware.org/articles/msoffice_vs_openoffice.php> > - and specifically this: > > "Interestingly, OpenOffice can open substantially older versions of > Microsoft Office files than Microsoft Office itself can, or even > some corrupted files that Microsoft Office can't open. For an IT > department, OpenOffice is worth having around just for that." > > However, it would certainly be nice to confirm it. Does anyone have > anything else on this? > David > > On 13-10-29 10:06 PM, Tim Lloyd wrote: > >> Hi David, I have nothing to add to the doc which I think provides a >> suitable launchpad to interest management. One comment though: >> >> Not only that, but MS Office 2010 and 2013 can't even open some >> documents created in earlier versions of MS Office itself, >> >> Do we actually have a reference point for this? If I was behind the >> bosses chair and I could see the impact of upgrading MSO then this would be >> a significant point. >> >> Cheers >> >> >> On 30/10/13 07:03, dbclinton wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> I've completed a draft of my white paper making the business case for LO >>> over MS Office. >>> For now, for want of a better solution, I've branded it as part of the >>> LibreOffice Document Foundation and put it in its own folder on the ODF >>> site here: >>> http://www.odfauthors.org/**libreoffice/english/white_** >>> papers/transition-from-ms-**office-to-libreoffice-white-**paper<http://www.odfauthors.org/libreoffice/english/white_papers/transition-from-ms-office-to-libreoffice-white-paper> >>> For those who can't access it there, you can download a PDF here: >>> http://www.marbitz.com/**portfolio/LO_White_Paper.pdf<http://www.marbitz.com/portfolio/LO_White_Paper.pdf> >>> I'm interested in any and all comments, corrections and thoughts as to >>> how it could be put to good use. Perhaps someone might also cross-post this >>> email to >>> [email protected].**org<[email protected]>- I've >>> tried a couple of times to join up only to be steadfastly ignored >>> (my email mysteriously disappears down the Internet's terrifying, gaping >>> maw). >>> Regards, >>> David Clinton >>> >>> >> > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: > marketing+unsubscribe@us.**libreoffice.org<marketing%[email protected]> > > Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/**get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-** > unsubscribe/<http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/> > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.**documentfoundation.org/** > Netiquette <http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette> > List archive: > http://listarchives.**libreoffice.org/us/marketing/<http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/us/marketing/> > > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/us/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
