Hi :) I have forwarded this to the marketing team for them to discuss because there are a lot of the BoD on that list. However i am far more unpopular there than i am on this list so they will probably just ignore it as "trolling" or some-such.
If, like me, you want to see LO succeed and believe some of these issue may indeed be "holding LO back" or setting up bigger problems for the future then feel free to take up the discussion there or even better forwards it to the "discuss" list. I think the original op of this thread wanted to avoid getting bogged down in all this and just wanted practical comments on issues arising from trying to share with the 90% (or thereabouts, depending on geography) of computer users that still use MSO. Perhaps just a few pointers on how to get better results from sharing. Regards from Tom :) --- On Wed, 8/8/12, Jay Lozier <jsloz...@gmail.com> wrote: From: Jay Lozier <jsloz...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Do You Share ODF Documents With MS Office Users? To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Wednesday, 8 August, 2012, 3:26 On 08/07/2012 08:24 PM, rob wood wrote: > >From my experience of working in the IT department of a very large college > with over 10 000 computers, it has nothing to do with functionality. 99.9% > of employees use office to type letters and send emails. For the .1% that > would use advanced features, policy probably disallows them anyway. Plus, > it is fairly trivial to have different images for those that need/want them. > > The reason they don't migrate is because it would create more work for the > IT department, it is that simple. Plus there is no benefit as far as the IT > department is concerned. Office 2003 works, and whoever approves the budget > is just going to accept however much is put in there for it, that is if it > is actually a separate item and not bundled in with the other microsoft > licences. > > Office = safe. > LO = risky + more work. I would second that most users do not use advanced features of any the MSO parts. Very few can actually program/write a macro and macro execution should normally be turned off for security reasons. The reasons for not updating MSO version or using another office suite (LO, AOO, etc) are roll out costs, roll out time, inertia (no real business reason to change), and perceptions about users finding the new suite difficult to use. > > > On 8 August 2012 00:11, Steve Morris <samor...@netspace.net.au> wrote: > >> >> Just my 2 cents worth. Businesses with a heavy investment in office can't >> migrate to LO, as LO is not a functional replacement for office 2002, let >> alone 2010. A lot of business functionality that is used from day to day >> and is critical to the organisation in order for their various business >> units to operate, from say excel, that libreoffice does not provide, even >> in 3.6, and features that excel allows that Calc disallows (as far as I can >> see for no good reason). Another reason for not migrating is also the steep >> learning curve, both with front end functionality and macros, that business >> cannot afford to undertake due to the loss of time and resources. >> >> regards, >> Steve >> >> >> >> >> -- >> For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+help@global.libreoffice.** >> org <users%2bh...@global.libreoffice.org> >> Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/**get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-** >> unsubscribe/<http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/> >> Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.**documentfoundation.org/** >> Netiquette <http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette> >> List archive: >> http://listarchives.**libreoffice.org/global/users/<http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/> >> All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be >> deleted >> >> > -- Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com -- 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
