-LOL- ????? Since when is M$$$$$ Office free? I guess your company is completely oblivious of what opensource and GPL is. Openoffice only costs you the download and the CD-R you burn it to. It is absolutely free. M$ [EMAIL PROTECTED] on the other hand costs you licenses for every installation on every PC, all 2 years you have to buy the new version and probably along with that you also need the newer Operating System version from the same monopolist and for that to work you also need more modern hardware.
With OpenOffice you get a complete free and fully equipped Office Suite which can do almost everything M$ Office can and save to the same file format so those dinosaur companies which stay with M$ can read the data. As a further goodie you can get OpenOffice for most OS's around, so you can use it on linux, MAC's, M$, Solaris etc... You stay flexible and save a lot of $$$$. Maybe the only module that is missing is an outlook clone, but there are many other good groupware clients around... Am Donnerstag, 17. November 2005 22.06 schrieb Gary Husband: > Hello > > > > > > > > I am trying to convince my place of work to offer Open Office as an > alternative to Microsoft office but at present I am getting my companies > standard reply of it is Open Source and that is issued under GPL which > usually costs businesses money and will not be free for us to install. > > > > From looking at your website I cannot see reference to companies being > charged, can you please confirm if a company which employs approx 3000 > people would charged for adopting Open office as one of it's office tools > suites ? > > > > > > Kind regards > > > > > > Gary --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
