I was asked to send a DVD to Them this morning. I told Them that it would cost too much and it did not have their native language in the DVD since it was meant for a different region of the world. I made sure they knew where to download the spoftware and linked to the "choose language" page.
On 10/07/2013 03:50 AM, Tom Davies wrote: > Dear Sir > It's free. > > > However, an extra advantage of using OpenSource software is that > organisations can re-invest some of those savings into having more control of > the work that goes into the product. > > Some examples; > * If a university created a new, possibly part-time, employment position > such as "Community Development Officer" then that person could work with > professors, lecturers, teachers to enable students to work on real-world > projects rather than just relying on learning purely theoretical knowledge. > * Students learning "English as a foreign language" could tackle small > sections of the various guides to translate into their own language. > Alternatively their homework or classwork projects might be to work on video > tutorials; reading or creating scripts, capturing video screen-shots > http://spoken-tutorial.org/ > * Students learning business studies or sales and marketing might be > encouraged to work together to appear at a trade-show or conference to > promote or inform people about the advantages of LibreOffice and OpenSource > in general. It might involve creating or adapting marketing materials, > own-language Dvds. > * Students in computer sciences might learn C++ or Python faster if they > are given "Easy hacks" or if the university finds something specific they > want coded. For example, see the grey borders around most programs? In > LibreOffice they can be themed to look more interesting. The university > crest could be shown there on machines inside the university and students > might want to show that off at home or other places too. > > * Organisations, such as Universities, sometimes find they use software in > an unusual way and want to have more control over the coding work, or they > find a bug-report that they feel is urgent but no-one else is really affected > by it. With proprietary software, such as MS Office, they are stuck. With > OpenSource software, such as LibreOffice, they could employ someone locally > or a local company to work on a specific problem. By permanently employing, > probably part-time, a developer they have more control over the issues that > get worked on. > > > Many organisations employ people to work on different aspects of LibreOffice. > Often it is to work on the programs coding directly as "developers". For > example Redhat employee developers and donate a lot of their time to > LibreOffice as a whole but when Redhat need something specific done they can > rely on that getting done. Of course openSuSE benefits from the work of > Redhat employees but their employees are also working on it so Redhat > benefits from the work done by openSuSE employees too. There are a lot of > companies, universities, even government departments in various countries who > work on LibreOffice together in this way. > > > So, while LibreOffice is free the more important thing about it is that the > University can have more control over it than they could have over > proprietary alternatives. > > > By the way this mailing list is really meant for User Support / Technical > Support and not really for sales. Also the general public use this list to > help people with any question they might have about LibreOffice. So none of > the opinions (or even facts quoted) on this mailing list are necessarily > reflecting the views of "The Document Foundation" or the views of anyone > officially working on LibreOffice. You might even spot one or 2 sulky > individuals trying to undermine LibreOffice and OpenSource in general. > However, we try to solve most things here and if we can't solve it then we > can usually "sign-post" people to the correct mailing lists or sources of > information. In your case you might want to talk to our marketing team > [email protected] > Subscribe to them in the same way you subscribed to the Users List. Once you > have done that it might be wise to unsubscribe from the Users List because > this list is very high-traffic. > > > For large scale "migrations" from MS Office to LibreOffice please can i > recommend you get in contact with our marketing team but also please get in > contact with the "Free Software Foundation". Preferably get them to give you > a regular advisor (it's probably a free service or if they do charge it > should be well worth it). > http > > The general advice is usually to keep the existing versions of MS Office but > install LibreOffice alongside it so that people can choose which they want to > work with. Newer machines and refurbishments can increasingly focus on just > LibreOffice. > > There is no reason to get rid of old versions of MS Office to start with. > Microsoft like to try to push people into getting rid of their existing > versions in order to force people to use unfamiliar tools. If those > unfamiliar tools are non-MS then there is usually a strong push to spend > loads of money buying the newer version of MS Office but again that is so > unfamiliar to people that they need retraining. Microsoft makes quite a lot > of money from certifying trainers to be qualified to retrain users in the use > of their newer products. So, the better option is to keep the existing > versions of MS Office and gently encourage people to get more and more > familiar with LibreOffice/OpenOffice but allow them to use the existing MS > Office to meet tight deadlines until they begin to find it is actually easier > for them to meet those deadlines with LibreOffice. > > > So the quick answer is that LibreOffice is free but you might choose to > reinvest some of the savings in order to get even more value out of it. > Regards from > Tom Davies > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Kumar <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Cc: > Sent: Monday, 7 October 2013, 2:43 > Subject: [libreoffice-users] Libre Office Multilingual software > > Dear Sales , > > > > Please email us the pricing for Libre Office Multilingual software . This is > required by one of the University in Malaysia. > > > > Looking forward to hear from you . > > > > Thank you very much > > > > Best Regards, > > Kumar > > Sales Manager > > Analytical Solutions Division > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > __________________________________________ > > STATWORKS [M] SDN BHD > > |* 3 Two Square, Suite A-28-06, No. 2, > > Jalan 19/1, 46300 Petaling Jaya, Selangor, MALAYSIA | > > |'Ph: +60379555288|'Fax: +60379555388| (Mobile:+6016 445 5554| > > |*Email: <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] |8Website: > <http://www.statwks.com/> www.statwks.com | > > > > -- To unsubscribe 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
