On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 2:07 PM, Mike Copeland <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Long answer, end users whine about the interface being different. Menu > shortcuts and menu style/location of options are different. "But I'm > productive using Excel and with this I have to search for how to do my job!" > End users, and I include us (especially!) in that list, love to whine. It's the nature of the beast. > In my experience, if anyone (like a manager or boss) "gets" the real > Office software on their system, and the "underlings" get the free Libre or > OpenOffice, there is a stigma with the free software... You have to have management buy-in. If a manager offers an award for the department that saves the company the most money using free software, the incentive is reversed. They never could/did. (Well, one lady did point out that you can't embed > ActiveX controls in a spreadsheet in LibreOffice. Touche!) > "Then maybe you shouldn't be doing that." I gave up fighting it. They want to contribute to MSoft's retirement cache, > so be it. > Honestly, me, too. If senior management is interested in doing it, I can lay out the business case and they can decide if that's what they want to do. If not, I have better battles to fight than fighting the tide... --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/cacw6n4tp6xdea-vvlo6baw1bynj1s-koecxmquduzpye0ho...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
