On Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:34:36 -0500
Paul Gress <pgress at optonline.net> wrote:
> Tomas Bodzar wrote:
> > OpenOffice != MS Office
> Gee, I don't want to start a war, but what can you do in MS Office you
> can't do in Openoffice.
Reliably share documents with people using MS-Office. OpenOffice is
better than pretty much anything but MS-Office (which isn't so hot at
this itself) than that, but it's always been an issue for me.
I'm sure it's gotten better since I last looked, but templates didn't
work worth beans, and the OpenOffice generated .doc files would
sometimes lock up Windows boxes when they were loaded into MS-Office
(just some machines, but reliably on those, until someone who didn't
have this problem saved it back out).
Besides, he also said Outlook, which could mean a lot more than just
"some form of user mail agent". It may be enough; he may need Sunbird
as well; he may need a better MAPI client; he may need a serious
enterprise suite. Without more details, it's hard to say.
One alternative - assuming the client hardware in question is up to it
- is VirtualBox or VMWare on the clients, running Windows as a
guest. VirtualBox on OpenSolaris is a good choice if you just want
casual use of the Windows clients. Last time I looked, VMWare was way
ahead of it if you wanted really tight integration.
<mike
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