On Wednesday June 13 2007 4:47 pm, NoOp wrote:
> On 06/13/2007 01:49 PM, Dan Lewis wrote:
> > On Wednesday June 13 2007 2:14 pm, Mike Reeves wrote:
> >> 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 appreciate any responses received,
> >> --Mike Reeves
> >
> > First of all, have the legal department (or the lawyer the
> > company uses) look over the license for OpenOffice.org:
> > http://www.openoffice.org/license.html. Then you will have a
> > legal opinion as to the fact that you can install OpenOffice.org
> > on to all of your computers without paying any fees for the
> > program. Secondly, you might want to look into Star Office by Sun
> > which provides support for their program. It is basically the
> > same as OOo but has some added proprietary software included.
> > There is a cost involved for each computer upon which Star Office
> > is placed, but it is much smaller than MS Office. There would
> > also be more help in setting up the program on a network.
> > www.sun.com.
> >
> > Dan
>
> Good points. Somewhat related to this, and probably better on it's
> own marketing type thread; are there users on this list that do
> indeed support OOo on medium to large corporate systems? If so it
> would be interesting to learn about their experiences in making the
> MS to OOo transition.
>
> I maintain multiple retail store customers on a small scale, and it
> was easy for me... I just ripped out their illegal MS Office copies
> (and other unlicenced software) and mandated that they use OOo from
> that point forward. The had no choice if they wanted me to maintain
> their systems and network. However, folks like Mike probably don't
> have that latitude so it would be interesting to hear how others
> have done this on a larger scale.
>
> Gary
Copy to Mike.
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