On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 01:05:04PM -0700, John Meyer wrote: > Lars D. Noodén wrote: > > On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > [snip] > >> One point that MS is constantly hammering home and the OSS community is > >> looking away from, whistling as if it didn't exist, is "total cost of > >> ownership" (TCO.) ... but if it takes 8 hours to retrain each employee > > [snip] > > > > MS really better be careful with this argument. A year or so ago, and > OO didn't have a Database component. You get open source programmers > and give them a motivation, they might come up with a contact/e-mail > application.
There are several already: thunderbird & evolution to name but 2. What is not as good as M$ is the integration between everything. > As far as retraining, are employees so dumb that they aren't going to > find out how to print from oOO as opposed from MS Office? Or do a > calculation in Calc as opposed to Excel? Errrm, yes & no. They might not be dumb, but many lack the confidence to explore/try_things/... Before you should "it's obvious" please think that you are the wrong sort of people - you are used to playing, ... Many people [think: middle aged, only ever known one thing] are petrified of change. I had my eyes opened recently when it was brought home to me that the ECDL[**] really benefitted a lot of people, gave them confidence & reduced support calls. So: yes - people do need training in OO to bring them from M$ Office. [**] European Computer Driving Licence: www.ecdo.co.uk -- Alain Williams Parliament Hill Computers Ltd. Linux Consultant - Mail systems, Web sites, Networking, Programmer, IT Lecturer. +44 (0) 787 668 0256 http://www.phcomp.co.uk/ #include <std_disclaimer.h> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
