Bruce On Wed, 2011-09-07 at 12:28 +1000, Bruce Carlson wrote:
> 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. > An possible replacement for Outlook might be Thunderbird. > 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. 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