[Gllug] Office Alternatives

[James Roberts]

Jack Bertram wrote:
> * Ivan Virgili <ivnmad at gmail.com> [080521 18:36]:
>   
>> I use OOo every day at work and at home (on Linux) and I really do not
>> miss M$ office. There are a few incompatibilities, but nothing major.
>>     
>
> Is this true in a corporate environment if you have to coexist with MS
> Office users? Features like macros and custom templates never used to
> translate properly.  Nearly every sizeable company has these in their
> documents.
>
>   
You are of course quite right. The MS (or any other) lock-in has (at least)

1. User inertia and need to retrain (even trivially - this is a cost)
2. Body of existing expertise that is made redundant
3. Body of existing code
4. Body of existing documents

And with MS in particular:

5. Exchange and Outlook and 1-4 above in that pair

This is a lot to tackle. We have sold a lot of Linux into infrastructure 
but have not even attempted the Desktop; even I use Win desktop 75% of 
the time - because this is what we have to support.

MeJ
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