As long as you have executive champions from the top (most especially the CEO) and you got a team determined to lead the way, you'll be in a good position.
Just convince your MS power users and macro gurus on the advantages of OpenOffice. I'm sure that'll push you further on the Herculean task. Searching the Internet on FOSS migration will definitely show a handful of success stories and guides. In my experience, the following steps boost the chances for a successful migration: (Assumptions: a. Felt need by the leadership to cut costs in software/computing. b. Presence of FOSS users/advocates in the company/organization.) 1. Making a 'business case' (which is needed for Step No. 2; to be done by FOSS users/advocates in the company). 2. Developing executive champions from the top leadership. 3. Company/staff meeting chaired by a CEO on the need to change the computing environment within the company. 4. Core group building (one that will lead the way) 5. Company-wide orientation on FOSS (benefits and trade-offs) 6. Migration planning 7. Implementation 8. Monitoring and evaluation Dong On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 7:54 AM, Lawrence A. Guirre<[email protected]> wrote: > Reason I'm asking is because we're studying the move to FOSS > over deciding to upgrade to Windows7 or stick with XP. But it's > not really the OS that's the problem for us but the apps, specially > office. We'd surely get major resistance from PPT power users and > excel macro-gurus who've developed some of the business processes. > We've tried OO on a select group of testers but I don't think the > outcome of that was any good. Though it must have been because of > lack of planning and careful study above anything else. > > We'd be attacking this problem again, though this time we hope > to be better armed to face the problems. -- Work: peace.net.ph Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/people/Dong_Calmada/653756853 LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/dbcalmada _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
