Hi :) >From what i have read about other large scale migrations to OpenOffice or LibreOffice it's a good idea to get in contact with some of our BoD (Board of Directors) and through them maybe some on TDF's Advisory Board http://www.documentfoundation.org/contact/ and / or people from the Free Software Foundation https://fsf.org/
These can arrange to assign, for the long term, experts who have quite a bit of experience guiding organisations through the migration process. There are other organisations such as Redhat, Canonical and so on along with other apparently distro-specific organisations who would be happy to help even if you do end up going with some other distro. There are also many 3rd party organisations and even individuals who have expertise in helping with these sorts of things. OpenSuSE budded a new one called Collabora which includes many of the devs they had working on LibreOffice, including the famous Micheal Meeks (who i see as a sort-of lead dev as he is naturally charismatic and gives good interviews that kinda inspire people) http://www.collabora.com/ The extremely few cases that don't manage to break away from MS have employed purely MS experts and ignored the advice of their FSF people (or other OpenSource experts). Even so they have typically enjoyed savings during the initial phases of the migration. Sadly, by then reverting to MS they have then had to buy into all the stuff they would have had to buy along the way but had to buy it all at once. Also since MS only has a slash&burn approach rather than any gradual migration routes they have had additional expenses such as retraining. They could have used FSF support to gradually return to MS but chose not to accept that route. Regards from Tom :) On 27 February 2014 07:28, Tim Lloyd <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > we hear about people experiencing problems when opening documents in LO > after they were created by MS Office in the .DOC/.DOCX formats. > > How about documents created in MS Office in the .ODF format? Does anyone > have experience opening these documents in LO? Similarly LO documents > created as ODF and subsequently opened in MS Office. Any experiences? > > Not surprisingly I am thinking this way after the UK government proposals. > It would be interesting to know what challenges European governments have > faced since adopting ODF. > > Cheers > > > > > > -- > 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 > -- 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
