On 07/20/2010 06:17 PM, RA Brown wrote:
Gregory Forster wrote:
OOo's web site has been changed, so I can't find the information
I need. I need help! This Saturday, a computerized system will be
voted on. On the table is a very expensive, overly elaborate
database that does much more than required, akin to a little old lady
putting a Ferrari drive train into a Geo Metro to go to the grocery
store. I have a few sold on the Open Office alternative. However, I
need more. I need examples of government entities, corporations,
educational entities that have actually switched to Open Office. I
want to be loaded with uncompromising ammunition of facts to promote
Open Office. HELP!!
Greg
Hi Greg,
If you have not already found it, http://marketing.openoffice.org/ is
a good starting point. Also check the mailing list archives from the
page.
Good luck.
The e-newsletters I have been getting form OOo use to list the "in the
news" info about the
big entities switching to OOo.
Even though some of the marketing info may still date back to version
2.x, it is still valid
for 3.x. Since 3.x is better than 2.x, OOo is even better now.
As for the database stuff, are you paying for the software and the
programming, or are you
paying for just the software and you people do the programming? It
seems to me that most
anything you will be able to do with the big name brand database
software, you can do with
OOo's Base. Also since I have heard a lot of people/companies use MySQL
as the access
system to a database file system, OOo works well with that as well. I
have not tried this in a
long time, but there is access to MS's database tables/files as well
through OOo.
Then there is the fact that the biggest name in database systems,
Oracle, is the main sponsor
of OOo and even sells their own version. So if the big boy in databases
is dealing with OOo,
then it must be good for databases? Right?
Then there is the free vs expensive software issue. How many businesses
pass on free
that does the same job as "expensive" these days with money so tight?
If you are going to
do your own database programming, I would always choose free. Since I
wrote my first
database using a mini-mainframe in the early 80's and did PC versions
till the mid 90's, I
found that the more complex the system, the harder to keep running.
Usually the more
costly the system, the harder it is to keep running. Then there is the
systems that are supported
by the end-users, like OOo. These people know what works and what is
needed to get
something to work. I have access to MS's database software free, but
the next time I need
to do a database system, OOo will be at its core. Then is need is
there, MySQL will be it
access system [network or non].
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