On Wednesday 20 September 2006 3:45 pm, Ross Bernheim wrote:
> Terrance,
>
> The point I was making was that there are other factors at work that
> limit adoption of the best solution, OOo.
> My boss sees no need to change. MS Office is what he is used to and has
> and has no reason to change.
> Since he is the boss, he makes sure that MS Office is on all the PC's
> when he orders them. So moving others
> to OOo is a bit of an uphill battle at best.

And, I'd bet that even if you gave him all the info. to PROVE that Aspartame  
is a POSION, he'd still continue to consume it. Personality flaws are like 
that. :(

> I cannot beat him over the head with cost savings since he has MS
> Office on the machines already. Superior
> performance won't do it either as MS Word does what he needs well
> enough and he is used to it and there is
> a cost in effort to switch. ODF won' do it as everyone he exchanges
> files with uses Word.
>
> Any other motivators that I can use?

Wait till next year and he has to buy a new 'puter to run Vista AND a new 
version of Office with all the costs associated with it, let alone the 
security problems! You'll have your opportunity. :)

Fred

-- 
MickySoft, the ultimate corporate parasite.

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