Simon, I would consider giving up after one day as bad management...either in preparation or in execution of the migration. On top of that, costs for M$ products are normally quite low at universities due to academic rebates. So the reward to switch to OO/LO is lower.
The best strategy how OO/LO could help in reduction of migration and acceptance problems is probably compatibility, compatibility, compatibility. Even if compatibility means being compatibility to something stupid. Once OO/LO has reached say 30% market share, trials to be better than M$ products at lower compatibility might be started, but not earlier. Waiting until that share is reached is not in the nature of the typical volunteer contributing to OO, I am afraid. But my problem is different. I am stuck even before migration because of the anticipated efficiency loss, not because I am afraid of acceptance or migration problems. ms777 Simon Johnson-Bégin wrote: > > Hello, > ... we once agreed, last december, that it was time to implement > Openoffice in the law library's computers. I tough that this was a great > choice and a good step forwarded for the open community. > The next day after the implementation, lot of students complained about > Openoffice, saying that it was not the same as what they were accustomed > in the bast. i'm sure that they did not tried it that much. I did not > agreed with them, butt he directors decided the next day to go back to Ms > Office. ... > Simon >> Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 14:47:34 -0700 >> From: [email protected] >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Adopting LibreOffice in Corporate >> Environments >> >> Hi, >> >> I lead a department of about 100 people in a German institution. We are >> on >> M$ products. From these 100 people > ... -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Adopting-LibreOffice-in-Corporate-Environments-tp3322040p3333124.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
