Hi :) I still think it's best to have both MS Office and LibreOffice installed on machines during the migration process. An "overnight" change is likely to cause problems.
Step 1 is to keep MS Office as the default while rolling out LO across the company. Some re-training of a few people at a time. Show how to access the one that is not default, how to access help and documentation etc. Maybe a few months before moving to step 2. Step 2 is to make LibreOffice the default but keep MS Office accessible. Don't actually get rid of MS Office but just stop buying it in. Something like that is much less likely to fail. Regards from Tom :) --- On Tue, 13/9/11, ms777 <[email protected]> wrote: From: ms777 <[email protected]> Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Adopting LibreOffice in Corporate Environments To: [email protected] Date: Tuesday, 13 September, 2011, 17:26 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 -- 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
