When I was reading up on things, I would've sworn that OpenOffice's website said it could be configured via GPO like Office?
-----Original Message----- From: Phil Brutsche [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 12:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT: OpenOffice Third-party plugins. A free office suite is worthless if it can't interoperate with other applications you have in your environment. 99.9% of all applications that integrate with an office suite won't work with anything but a recent MS Office. Clipart. In the schools I've where attempted to deploy OpenOffice I had to pull it out in short order due to the lack of available clip art. Centralised configuration mechanisms aren't built-in. If you need to force a particular setting (say, use MS Office file formats by default) and the third-party stuff isn't an option (see below) you're SOL. That's a biggie in my book. Granted, there's third-party stuff for that (http://openofficetechnology.com/), but that's yet another program to pay for and maintain. John Hornbuckle wrote: > I have no problem finding stacks of positive information about > OpenOffice; I'm not interested in more of that. > > Can someone highlight the DISADVANTAGES of it vs. Office 2007? > > I want to make an informed decision, but that requires getting > balanced information. Much of what I'm finding online is either dated > (i.e., not comparing current versions of either product) or biased. -- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
