Quoting "Meyer, David R" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > In my organization we are starting to use Xandros 2.5 Business in > several departments. Unfortunately we use M$ Office corporate wide, and > Xandros allows us to use that, while giving us the Linux desktop that we > want. > in our organization, we divide the computer systems into to main groups. we have a fix application group (those that only need to run a few specific applications) and a general purpose workstation group.
the fix application group we migrated early on to a thin-client system. since, these workstations only need fix applications (call center software, data encoding software, browsers, emulators and others) to perform their tasks, it was easy to ween the users out of their MS windows systems. the general purpose workstation group is a bit harder. most of these are still MS Windows and a sprinkling of linux. although, a good number use openoffice. the current problem is that openoffice fails miserably in a few cases which cause these users to stick to their MS Office applications. openoffice is a great piece of software. but, as long as there is one person in the office using MS Office, that document can be a reason to keep MS Office installed. for this group, we are still working on other strategies. and yes, we use PDF for presentations. btw, openoffice impress and calc have very good MS Office document support. it is openoffice writer that handles images very poorly (super slow). good luck! > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sacha Chua > Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 3:11 AM > To: Philippine Linux Users Group Mailing List > Subject: [plug] Re: linux on corporate desktop > > Holden Hao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > 2. Main issue with Office suite is the presentation software. OO is > > very capable but it was difficult that most third party computers > > used during conferences do not have OO installed. My recommended fix > > was to bring a Open Office CD and also to buy a notebook for the > > office ;) > > I publish my presentations in OpenOffice Impress (SXI), Microsoft > Powerpoint (PPT), PDF, and Macromedia Flash (SWF--just because I > can!). I also always make sure there's a PDF viewer available on the > computer I'm presenting on, and I carry it on my USB key (which is a > small pendant; it's so cute!). I'll probably only have problems with > Windows 98 computers. I guess I should carry N floppy disks for this > case? <laugh> > > But yes, a notebook is the best solution if you're making lots of > presentations. Pick something that has a built-in VGA port. I lost my > VGA connector some time ago, and that's just been annoying. > > -- > Sacha Chua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - open source geekette > http://sacha.free.net.ph/ - PGP Key ID: 0xE7FDF77C > interests: emacs, gnu/linux, personal information management, CS ed > applying as a Debian new maintainer | looking for a grad school > -- > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph > Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph > . > To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug > . > Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to > http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie > > > > -- > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph > Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph > . > To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug > . > Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to > http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie > ------------------------------------------------------- William Emmanuel S. Yu Department of Information Systems and Computer Science Ateneo de Manila University email : wyu at ateneo dot edu web : http://CNG.ateneo.net/cng/wyu/ phone : +63(2)4266001-4186 GPG : http://CNG.ateneo.net/cng/wyu/wyy.pgp -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
