HI, I agree with Tom. It is difficult to get IT people who have never worked with anything other than MS products to accept that there is a better alternative, especially younger IT staff. Older IT workers have mostly had experience with Unix based operating systems, word processors, spread sheet and drawing / presentation applications long before MS even existed so are aware that better alternatives do exist. However in my organisation I have been successful in getting almost everyone including young IT MS orientated staff to use Firefox as their preferred browser and I now have a small following of execs and senior staff who prefer to use Libre Office because of it's greater functionality and ease of use but because of company policy, must also have MS office installed on their machines. The long term goal is to demonstrate to the senior management the false economy of making everyone install MS office as this is an expense the company can do without. Except for development environments, I personally have only one MS application running on my work machines and that is Outlook.
Keep demonstrating the advantages of these alternatives and you will win through in the end. Little by little. Bruce Carlson -----Original Message----- From: Tom Davies [mailto:tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk] Sent: Wednesday, 7 September 2011 10:14 AM To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Can Libre Office be installed on an external drive. ? Hi :) It might be worth contacting the IT Staff that are going to install the systems and make the point that your work requires using specialist software or something or that you prefer using Firefox because it's safer and faster than Internet Explorer and you feel the same way about Office. It takes a lot of luck to find the right angle but it would be great if you could get Firefox and LibreOffice installed alongside whatever they are told to force you to use. Firefox has built a strong reputation for being low-maintance and popular so the IT guys might be happy to let you install that and then LibreOffice is "similar" but just not as famous yet. Perhaps other people at work might be happy to join in kicking up a fuss about getting Firefox on their machines too. You might like this article http://www.computerworld.dk/art/118467/ or translated to English ... http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=da&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=da&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.computerworld.dk%2Fart%2F118467%2F> There are other articles on http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/LibreOffice_In_The_Press but it's not very comprehensive or up-to-date. There are just tooo many articles out there so it's better to use a search engine if you want to find articles. Regards from Tom :) ________________________________ From: Don Parris <parri...@gmail.com> To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Tue, 6 September, 2011 23:23:28 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Can Libre Office be installed on an external drive. ? On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 22:01, Tom Davies <tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > Hi :) > I think you are looking for > http://www.libreoffice.org/download/portable/ > but it only works on Windows machines. > > On linux machines you will probably find that LibreOffice is already > installed although some have stayed with OpenOffice. You are more > likely to be allowed to install LibreOffice directly onto a Gnu&Linux > machine if it doesn't already have it. You do soemtimes find kiosk > machines that wont let you install anything but generally multi-user > Gnu&Linux machines have much less need to be locked-down than Windows > machines so you should be able to install LibreOffice reasonably > easily. > > > Thanks for that, Tom. I actually have a situation in which this is going to be useful. I have been exploring some of the other portable apps as well. My workplace is going to soon roll out new systems, and I understand they are being locked down in terms of what can be installed on them. I have had OOo/LO on my box for several years, and know that they are talking about not allowing other programs to be installed beyond what they specify. While I understand their concerns, I absolutely find working with MS Office to be mostly just awful. OK, Excel is not bad, but Word, well... I just can't take it. Anyway, Portable Apps gives me the ability to use LO without having to install it. There is also the portable VirtuaWin, which lets me have my virtual desktops in their Windows environment. The bottom line? I feel much more at home at work now. :-) -- D.C. Parris, FMP, LEED AP O+M, ESL Certificate Minister, Security/FM Coordinator, Free Software Advocate https://www.xing.com/profile/Don_Parris | http://www.linkedin.com/in/dcparris GPG Key ID: F5E179BE -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
