Tod, you're correct; although the businesses fail to consider the cost of safeguarding their machines; a cost which would be considerably reduced by not using the MSFT products.
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 4:26 PM, T Hopkins <hopl...@hillmanncarr.com> wrote: On Aug 8, 2012, at 1:39 PM, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: > > > The problem doesn't seem to be so much with management not wanting to > change - it seems to be with fear of the IT dept. > > There are very sound reasons that businesses are conservative. Businesses > don't like change because change costs money. You don't argue for change > by saying something is "just as good" or "not as bad as you think." You > must argue that change is BETTER than not changing and will ultimate > increase productivity, which increases profits. > > The difference in cost of the initial license, when considered from the > full deployment/productivity calculation of an IT manager, is often not the > deciding factor. The primary cost of changing software is not the license, > but installation, configuration, training, and lost productivity during > conversion. If you put all of this on a balance sheet for a company that > is currently using MS Office, the cost of "upgrading" the existing software > is often much lower than the cost of changing new software, even when that > new standard has a free license. > > Cheers, > tod > > Tod Hopkins > Hillmann & Carr Inc. > todhopkins-at-hillmanncarr.com > > -- 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