Re: Bad press

2012-11-25 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 10:16 PM, Ian C wrote: > Hi All, > > saw this today > http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9233890/German_city_dumps_OpenOffice_switches_to_Microsoft?source=CTWNLE_nlt_pm_2012-11-20 > > Maybe an upgrade from 3.2 would help them? > > -- > Cheers, > > Ian C > And you can

Re: Bad press

2012-11-22 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 21/11/2012 Rob Weir wrote: Google shows 337 stories for the Freiburg story. But did you see a mention of the Leipzig story? I saw a few, but even though it was the larger migration, I saw only brief mentions. If we can manage to invite the Leipzig administrators to be interviewed, or writ

Re: Bad press

2012-11-21 Thread jan iversen
etails about versions, this is about having a heterogeneous environment, > > something that most IT departments try to avoid at all cost, and AOO just > > happened to be the excuse for making the structure slimmer. In my > opinion a > > response telling that a newer version is better, w

Re: Bad press

2012-11-21 Thread Rob Weir
ppened to be the excuse for making the structure slimmer. In my opinion a > response telling that a newer version is better, would actually catch bad > press, whereas a response (if possible with some equal success stories) > showing why it is not a problem to have AOO and MS-OFFICE side by

Re: Bad press

2012-11-21 Thread jan iversen
response telling that a newer version is better, would actually catch bad press, whereas a response (if possible with some equal success stories) showing why it is not a problem to have AOO and MS-OFFICE side by side, would catch a positive interest. We need the thumbs up from the IT department, and

Re: Bad press

2012-11-21 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 21/11/2012 Rob Weir wrote: Freiburg putting the blame for the challenges of managing heterogeneous IT systems solely on an old version of OpenOffice.org is wrong and unfair, IMHO. But it is common. Indeed this is quite common. But, if in this case we have reasons to believe that better pra

Re: Bad press

2012-11-21 Thread Kay Schenk
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 5:23 PM, Andrew Rist wrote: > Here's the response from LO referenced in the story: > http://blog.documentfoundation.org/2012/11/16/open-letter-to-the-city-of-freiburg/ > Thanks for this, Andrew. Sad and shortsighted to say the least. The comments on this same page were en

Re: Bad press

2012-11-21 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Dave Fisher wrote: > > On Nov 21, 2012, at 6:16 AM, Rob Weir wrote: > >> On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 8:16 PM, Ian C wrote: >>> Hi All, >>> >>> saw this today >>> http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9233890/German_city_dumps_OpenOffice_switches_to_Microsoft?source

Re: Bad press

2012-11-21 Thread Dave Fisher
On Nov 21, 2012, at 6:16 AM, Rob Weir wrote: > On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 8:16 PM, Ian C wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> saw this today >> http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9233890/German_city_dumps_OpenOffice_switches_to_Microsoft?source=CTWNLE_nlt_pm_2012-11-20 >> >> Maybe an upgrade from 3.2 wou

Re: Bad press

2012-11-21 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 8:16 PM, Ian C wrote: > Hi All, > > saw this today > http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9233890/German_city_dumps_OpenOffice_switches_to_Microsoft?source=CTWNLE_nlt_pm_2012-11-20 > > Maybe an upgrade from 3.2 would help them? > It is bizarre. They ran their desktops

Re: Bad press

2012-11-20 Thread Andrew Rist
Here's the response from LO referenced in the story: http://blog.documentfoundation.org/2012/11/16/open-letter-to-the-city-of-freiburg/ On 11/20/2012 5:16 PM, Ian C wrote: Hi All, saw this today http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9233890/German_city_dumps_OpenOffice_switches_to_Microsoft?s

Bad press

2012-11-20 Thread Ian C
Hi All, saw this today http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9233890/German_city_dumps_OpenOffice_switches_to_Microsoft?source=CTWNLE_nlt_pm_2012-11-20 Maybe an upgrade from 3.2 would help them? -- Cheers, Ian C