On 08/08/2012 03:57 AM, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
On 08/08/12 00:11, Steve Morris wrote:
Just my 2 cents worth. Businesses with a heavy investment in office
can't migrate to LO, as LO is not a functional replacement for office
2002,
IMHO that's not true
let alone 2010. A lot of business functionality that is used from day
to day and is critical to the organisation in order for their various
business units to operate, from say excel, that libreoffice does not
provide, even in 3.6, and features that excel allows that Calc
disallows (as far as I can see for no good reason).
Having worked for 20-odd years as a Management/Systems accountant in
many varieties and sizes of organisations ranging from one-man band
traders to medium/large PLCs I have never seen any business use Office
in that manner.
Usually Excel is used to interpret data extracted from an
Accounting/CRM/ERM database, which Calc can do perfectly well.
Word is used mostly for typing letters - complex documents are few and
far between. Presentations can be produced equally well using
PowerPoint or Impress.
Another reason for not migrating is also the steep learning curve,
both with front end functionality and macros, that business cannot
afford to undertake due to the loss of time and resources.
Given my experience as above, most businesses I worked in didn't use
macros at all. In fact in some they were deliberately disabled as a
security risk.
As to the "learning curve" - there's a far smaller learning curve
migrating from MS Office 2003 and prior to LO than there is migrating
to Office 2007/2010 - so that doesn't stack up either.
I would add another problem is a lack of diligence about what the
company actually needs and what alternatives are available: cloud,,
FOSS, and commercial. As much FUD I see about how difficult it is to use
Ubuntu I would expect there is some FUD about how difficult any other
office suite/cloud solution is to use. The basic interface of LO/AOO is
a typical program GUI interface users have seen before. The only
difference is exactly where some of the tools are and the all the basic
tools are there.
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