On Fri, 2002-06-14 at 14:07, Joshua James wrote: > At least if you switch to OpenOffice you'll save a ton of money on > licensing.
US$10,625 is what we saved by not buying 25 licenses for MS Office... and after a couple of days of help, MS Office users prefer OpenOffice. The cost savings are what makes management sit up straight and pay attention, so I'm pushing that. I have a mandate to eliminate illegal software and have found a few workstations with copies of Windows that are... er... prelegalized, so I may use one or two of those as Linux testbeds and later present management with the price tag of _not_ switching to Linux. > Users will also find something familiar when you switch them > to linux down the road. Yes, this is _really_ important to users. The Windows/MS Office/MSIE users I've shown Linux to like it but don't see it as anything practical, because they don't see their favorite apps. The Windows/OpenOffice/Netscape users I've shown Linux to say "Wow! It's just like Windows, only better!" We know, of course, that Linux isn't "just like Windows, only better." But this kind of love at first sight on the part of users is what I want to achieve in order to insure a successful migration. Warren
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