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David Offill wrote:
> My company's proprietary medical practice management software currently
> uses the legacy version OO 1.1.5 for all document usage, with excellent
> success.
>
> I have been tasked to look at the current production release (3.0?) to
> see if there would be any issues with upgrading our system to make use
> of this version.
>
> Questions:
>
> Is 3.0 the appropriate version to consider?
Version 3.0.0 is very buggy. Supposedly all bugs will be fixed in the
next release, version 3.0.1, currently due to be released this month.
However, for testing on your system, 3.0.0 may be fine, depending on
what you are test. Or you could test with version 2.4.2, available at
the lower right-hand corner of this page: http://download.openoffice.org/ .
I think it might be best to install version 3.0.0 and
rerun any tests which had problems a second time when 3.0.1 is released.
> Any tricks to installing it as a parallel version on my Windows XP sp2,
> so it it doesn't overwrite my copy of 1.1.5?
Version 2 of OpenOffice.org installs by default in a separate folder
from version 1, and version 3 in a separate folder from versions 1 and
2. They can all be run together on the same computer as different products.
One difficulty however: if you use exterior programs (say in c, Visual
Basic, or Visual Foxpro) to call OpenOffice.org and run OpenOffice.org,
they will not know which program to call, and may not call the version
you want. I have encountered this problem when attempting to run two
different versions of OpenOffice.org simultaneously.
If you don’t run OpenOffice.org from exterior programs, you should have
no problem. If you do use exterior programs, then you may have to test
on a machine with only version 3.0 installed.
Jim Allan
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