On 18/04/07, Sridhar Dhanapalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Shakthi Kannan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 3. Mention the important of open documentation
> standards (.odp or .pdf), and use of Openoffice for
> their day-to-day activites.
You should stress the importance of open standards, as well as open source,
and how well they go together. Open standards ensures long-term data
independence for the business, and makes switching between software and
operating systems much more trivial.
I'm not sure how many points will he get for stressing open standards
- remember where the people he's going to talk to are (expected to)
come from: All they'll care about is that they'll be able to keep
reading and writing documents which already exist in the system and
send/received with their outside contacts, with as little disruption
to the office work as possible during and after the transition period.
The bottom line, IMHO, is that they'll care much more about
inter-operability with MS stuff (documents, Exchange or its
replacement, web sites, etc) than about standard document formats
which should be readable ten years later.
Being able to read documents ten years from now might be an
understandable argument for people like you and me, who understand the
technical issues, maybe have a historical perspective of the
technology/internet world over the past 20 years, and know that there
is an alternative, but for the average office user and even average
office IT worker they hardly have a meaning.
Just my 0.02$.
Cheers,
--Amos
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