On Sun, 28 Apr 2002 19:52:11 -0700 (PDT) mslicker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snip] > I paid for StarOffice back at version 5.0 and find that the 5.2 version > handles MS Word documents very well, including the graphics. It seems to > me like they broke a few things in the OpenOffice version and it will > take them some time to fix it all. That's understandable being that they > are modifying it to use GNOME desktop componants. Once fixed, the work > will have been well worth it. I hated the 'intgrated desktop' in SO - OOo has got rid of that, and the latest release is as good as if not better than SO was. It's also ideal for deployment on LTSP - once the first user has loaded it in the morning, it's available in memory for subsequent users. Try dosing that with MS-Office! > Large to medium organizations will find conversion to StarOffice very > difficult as training costs will outweight getting the software for free > and as users are likely to revolt en-mass. I don't think there is any evidence to prove this - as most users use only 10-15% of the functionality of MS-Office, migrating is no big deal. [snip] > - Market with targeted mailings inviting businesmen to technology > demonstrations.. They need to see with their own eyes what the LTSP-based > solution can do. Small businessmen like to see neat tricks and big > businessmen like to see solutions that significantly reduce time and risk > spent on dealing with wide-ranging problems. Both types are very open to > new ideas under such conditions. Here is the real differentiator. I would in a big corporate who receive the full treatment from MS - 'off the record' briefings, 'free' 'consultancy', 'educational' trips across the Atlantic... You can't finance that on open source. John _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net