I'll get to the point. I'm looking for a solution for my company that
does not invovle spending tons of money on Microsoft Office licensing. I
was wondering if it was possible to transfer over to OpenOffice fairly
easily.
You see, the business I work for is constantly growing and we're always
having to buy new MS Office Licenses... well we were wondering if OpenOffice
could be a new solution to that.
Here's our company Specs:
--O/S: Mostly Windows XP, however we have a few Windows 2000 w/ SP4. Also
we have two servers both running Windows SBS 2003
--Computers: Currently about 70, but as I said always growing.
--Uses of MS Office: About 30 of the computers use MS Office all day (Word
and excel mainly), a good handful use powerpoint, but all computers do use
Office a minimum of once or twice per day for one thing or the other. We
also have customers sending us information in MS Office format.
Basically we'd want to be able to remove MS Office from all the computers
and load on OpenOffice and then have it do updates. Also we need to be able
to continue to access our old files and then (BY DEFAULT), we need to be
able to save in MS Office format since many of our customers receive files
from us.
Maybe MS Office is our only feasible item, however research could always
lead to greater things.
I'll assume that you wish to know whether OOo can assist with your company
as you've outlined it.
The short answer is Yes. OOo can be set up to use MS office formats by
default (ie, when you save a writer document it will be saved in .doc
format). There are still some small compatibility issues when OOo uses MS
Office formatted files, but unless your documents are highly complex these
should be small.
It runs find on Window OS (among many others), and it can be used in a
server/thin client arrangement, if thats what you after.
You simply have to download it once, then you can install on all of your
PC's including servers just fine. It can also co-exist with MS Office. You
can if you wish give it away to your clients for them to use to make it even
easier for you.
I would recommend that you install it on some users as a 'pilot' side by
side MS office and gauge the response and next steps.
/paul
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