Correction what I wrote applies only to the Windows version. I don't have g.u.i. installed on Linux, I need something stable to use and haven't tried this on my mac yet.
On Sat, 2 Jun 2012, Spencer Graves wrote: > On 6/2/2012 8:37 AM, Andreas S?ger wrote: > > Am 02.06.2012 16:46, webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote: > > > > > > There seems to be differenting opinions on how business ready 3.5.3 was > > > > > > So now that LO 3.5.4 is out, > > > > > > I ask the users, is it ready to be deployed to my/our business users? > > > > > > We really need to know. > > > > > > The last "official" word on the 3.5.x line was that business users would > > > research the package before downloading and installing it. > > > > > > Well, I do not know how they will to all that research, or where they > > > will get the documentation for it, before downloading it. > > > > > > So I am asking LO users the question. > > > Is 3.5.4 ready for our business and/or enterprise users? > > > > > > The doc people are work hard to get more 3.5.x line documentation out, > > > but to be honest about it people can still use 3.3.x and 3.4.x docs till > > > 3.5.x comes out. > > > > > > > What is the problem with 3.5? What are your conclusions when a user like me > > or Tom states that everything is fine with 3.5? I am a completely untypical > > user who skipped the whole 3.4 series after writing a bunch of bug reports. > > Tom has an entirely non-technical view on the project. The overall service > > quality of this particular user list is really bad. > > > > The bug tracker can tell all unresolved issues that do exist in 3.5 but not > > in 3.4? Don't ask me how. I file my bugs to the AOO tracker where it serves > > both projects. > > > What does it need to do to be "business ready"? > > > I don't know, but I suspect that Google probably uses it. I heard over > a year ago that Google employees were forbidden to use MS Windows: The > primary alternatives were Mac OS and Linux. I was also told that Google paid > people full time to do nothing but contribute to open source projects. I > suspect they probably have the same attitude today towards MS Office as toward > the operating system. > > > I've used LibreOffice or Open Office for over 3 years now as a 100% > replacement for MS Office. I was motivated by two things: (a) I had lost my > job and resolved to pay for software only if I could not find a comparable, > Free Open-Source Software (FOSS) alternative. (b) I saw no need to pay > Microsoft for forcing me to learn where they hid all the controls on their new > version. Since then, I've had some compatibility problems with LO import and > export of MS Word documents, and I still cannot control LO Impress as good as > I could MS PowerPoint. On the other hand, I've started using the LO > "Synchronize Labels" feature, and I never used a comparable feature in MS > Word; it may be there, but I never used it. > > > Spencer Graves > p.s. I'm the President of a start-up. We have not hired anyone new but if > and when we do, I plan to ask them to try LO before I pay for MS Office. My > Chief Engineer still has MS Office and has not seen a need to try LO -- and > the incompatibility problems have not been sufficient for me to push him to > use LO. I'm not sure, but I think my Chief Financial Officer uses LO. > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- Jude <jdashiel-at-shellworld-dot-net> <http://www.shellworld.net/~jdashiel/nj.html> -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org 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
