On Mar 7, 2006, at 12:27, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
... And, the replacement of MS Office's high-end feature set with
OOo's
high end feature set would be far more expensive than the difference
in
initial cost is worth.
That's my point. The difference for the user between MSO XP or 2003
and
MS 2007 is much larger than between MSO XP or 2003 and OOo 2.
Lars, we're going to have to agree to disagree on this one. Your
assertions don't match what I see happening in the past or the future.
To me, this seems like watching the same movie over and over again,
each
time hoping that there will be a better ending this time. (I still do
that with "To Kill a Mockingbird.")
Since the early days of Linux, I've been hearing how a development over
the horizon is finally going to break Microsoft's hold over the
OS/Browser/Office Suite market. I'm still waiting for something to
actually do so. But, I don't think this will be it.
--Jekke
I agree that it will take time. The change will happen slowly. It is
happening
now and I suspect that it will accelerate. IBM just announce that they
are
ending their MS license and moving to OOo and other programs for their
desktops. Many small companies are moving as are some governmenatl
agencies. The momentum seems to be greater in Europe and Asia than
in the US of A.
Where I work there are four people. The boss is used to Windows and MS
Office.
He bought IBM PC's with Windows and Office for himself, a laptop, and
desktop
machines for the administrative person and other person. I am the
'Production
Manager' and I got an eMac and run OOo (and NeoOffice/J).
I was used to older versions of MS Office, Word Perfect, Mariner Write
and other
programs. I had few if any difficulties moving to OOo and find it does
what I need.
In fact it does some things much better than other programs I have
used. I find
myself using the numbering and outlining features much more than I did
before.
I do a lot of tables in OOo Writer and find that there are some
differences in how
it does things compared to the other programs but nothing major that
causes
me any problems.
Other than some documents that the boss does where he does things in
very
twisted ways in MS Word, I have not had any problems other than font
differences and MS's graphics handling in dealing with any of his
documents.
I have converted the other two people at work to OOo as it works better
and
has fewer problems for them for what they do. The boss is the only
holdout.
I expect that he will convert the next time he looks at upgrading MS
Office and
looks at the price and differences in the user interface.
So far, training time for the conversion has been virtually
nonexistent. I am
very happy with OOo and like that I can work on OOo documents on any
platform and do so with my Mac iBook running Kubuntu linux and OOo
as well as my eMac and OS X and interchange documents with the
Windows users running OOo as well as doing a save as into MS
formats to interchange documents with the boss.
Ross Bernheim
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