I am in the same boat.. I have applications and Internet sites that
only work with M$. I know that with WINE you are supposed to be able to
run them, but I haven't had the time to make it work yet. I have even
explored the option of putting everything but those application on Linux
and OOo and then running a Virtual Machine for the M$ products. But
that hasn't provided an answer either.... too slow on what I have
tested. Hopefully vendors will realize that there is more that one O/S
out there and start providing programs and support for them.
Shane
Ross Bernheim wrote:
On Sep 23, 2006, at 0:54, Fred A. Miller wrote:
Fred,
Not all cases are the same. Businesses vary quite a bit. Some are
totally locked down and controlled. Others
are much less controlling and only step in when there is a problem.
I have seen a whole range of situations.
If it is a controlling situation and the boss says MS Office, then
that is it. If they say, OOo then that is it. In many
if not most situations it is not quite that straightforward.
I've been doing this for sometime....I'm not "new" to consulting,
Ross. :) As I said at the outset, I don't support MickySoft - period.
And, I'm fortunate in that I don't have to.
Fred
You are very lucky indeed. I am unfortunately stuck having to deal
with MS Windows to run some programs
and others in my company use MS Word and other MS programs. I can deal
with the Excel and Word files
well enough that it is not a big deal for me, merely an inconvenience.
The boss does some things in MS
Publisher but I fortunately don't have to deal with that.
I have moved to the odf format and if they complain, I can always tell
them it is internationally approved
file format standard. MS's file formats are not. :-)>
Ross
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