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/paul On 9/22/06, katie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
PLEASE TAKE ME OFF THE MAILING LIST!- OR DOES ANYONE KNOW HOW??? TOo many messages for my box! THank You, On Sep 20, 2006, at 2:25 PM, Terence W C Warby wrote: > I would have thought that working in a small business would have > made it easier to adopt alternatives to M$ software. I work in a > business with about 17 full time personnel. Up to two years ago we > had to work with a motley collection of PC's running on Win 95, 98 > and Me, using various versions of M$ Office. When our Director > decided to update our network and buy new machines he asked me to > manage the job. Although I didn't manage to eliminate M$ software > entirely, we are running on Win XP, there is no M$ office software > on any of our PC's. The transition to OpenOffice.org was quick, > painless and very cost effective. All I had to do was show that OOo > could do the jobs we wanted done, that it could read any M$ > documents that we had already produced and could produce M$ format > documents if required by a client. Job done - No problem. > > Terry W > > Ross Bernheim wrote: >> Derek, >> >> In small businesses there are as many if not more impediments to >> adopting alternatives such as Open Office. I work in a small >> company. >> When I started, there were two of us, the owner and myself. >> >> His is a MS Windows, MS Office, Publisher, etc. user. I am >> primarily a Mac >> user and to some extent Linux user. The owner got an IBM laptop >> with XP >> Home. He got an IBM desktop with XP Home for the part time >> receptionist/ >> office person. I used an old Mac from home initially with Word >> Perfect for >> the Mac. >> >> When I outgrew the old Mac, I got an eMac for work as it was the >> only one >> that would fit under the riser for the workbench where it was to >> be located >> and it was the least expensive. Boss offered to get MS Office for >> it and I >> said no. I put Open Office on it and have been very happy with it. >> >> As we expanded and added a full time office person and another >> production >> person, MS continued to dominate. I did get the office person and >> other >> production person to put OOo on their machines and they use it >> some of >> the time. Particularly when MS Word won't print and OOo does. >> >> Boss still won't deal with other than MS Office. >> >> On the back end, I did get him to go for a Samba server running on >> Linux. >> Took an old $30 PII 266 machine and added a 160GB drive and Debian >> Linux for an inexpensive and reliable file server. >> >> We have added 2 machines that are MS Windows XP based because we >> need to run software that only works under Windows. These have been >> EDA software and PLM software. The EDA machine also has Office on it >> since that is what the people who use it are used to. The PLM >> server is >> running on a machine that is in my area and also runs an instance >> of the >> PLM client software. I have OOo on it instead of Office. So far >> the only problem >> is that the PLM software expects MS Office so I cannot import >> Excel files >> into the PLM database without it. It means that I have to convert >> the file to >> a text file and import that way. A minor annoyance but not a >> showstopper >> as I do not need to import too many files that way. >> >> The interesting thing is that the office admin person tried OOo at >> home and >> found that it was easier to just use MS Word to trade files with >> the people >> in college classes she is taking. The production person uses OOo >> and not >> MS Word at home. >> >> It will be a long hard ongoing effort to unseat MS Windows or any >> of the MS >> Office components from their dominant position. I have a number of >> computers >> at home and all have OOo not MS Office on them. So I am a 'success >> story' but >> many others are not there yet. >> >> Certainly small businesses are a good place to put forth the >> effort to make them >> aware of the advantages of OOo. Expecting a high percentage of >> them to either >> use or switch to OOo is unrealistic at this point. Working towards >> having a >> greater awareness of OOo and higher adoption rates is very realistic. >> >> >> Ross Bernheim >> >> >> On Sep 19, 2006, at 17:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>> >>> I think some of the greatest opportunities for software >>> alternatives like Open Office and Linux exist in small business, >>> where the entrepreneurial spirits are highest and budgets are >>> lowest. Workers there are more likely to make an extra effort to >>> learn new things and challenge the status quo for their own sakes. >>> >>> Derek Wilson >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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