On 02/26/2009 03:57 PM, Leach, William R wrote: > First, I am no longer subscribed so please cc me on any response. > > My employer, rightfully concerned about network security, is in the > process of blocking and removing "unsupported" software. This action is > fully understandable when viewed from a security standpoint. However, > individual exceptions will be granted where the exception is either > essential to the business activity or is significantly beneficial to the > company. > > I have been asked to provide a justification to continue my use of Open > Office. > > I am able to cite a number incidents where OOo has saved corrupted MS > Word documents, allowed for rapid creation of drawings, royalty free > generation of PDFs, and several other examples. > > What I would like to have some help with is verifiable information > concerning the security of OOo (particularly compared to MS Word). > > > Bill Leach > RWMC Publications > COBRA ACE > 533-0121 > Pager 4165 > >
I suppose that you could point out that Sun Microsystems purchased StarOffice for the purpose of avoiding thousands of MS Office licenses, and that Sun (the primary holder of the OOo keys) continue to use OOo & StarOffice within their own corporation today. Further, Novell, another major contributor do the same. You can start here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org do comparisons against: http://secunia.com/advisories/product/6157/ 11 Secunia advisories 31 Vulnerabilities or http://secunia.com/advisories/search/?search=openoffice against: http://secunia.com/advisories/search/?search=microsoft+office you might be able to convince them. Additional links that might be helpful: http://www.openoffice.org/news/ <http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Major_OpenOffice.org_Deployments> <http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Market_Share_Analysis> Please note: You have been cc'd on this post as you have posted to an open OOo mailing list. Please see: http://www.openoffice.org/mail_list.html for details and how to subscribe or view the archives so that you may see responses from other OOo users. Please *only* reply to [email protected] - replies to my personal email address will be ignored. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
