On Aug 9, 2012, at 2:43 AM, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
> The total costs of all that would be FAR lower by converting from Office 2003
> or any of its predecessors to LO compared to converting to Office
> 2007/2010.....users could at least get going almost immediately with LO
> whereas the new ribbon seemed to be almost unfathomable to a lot of people,
> so yes, going from one version of MS Office to a SIMILAR version (as in
> Office XP to Office 2003 or Office 2007 to 2010) I agree. Going from a
> menu-based Office to a ribbon-based Office no, I don't agree.
Actually, I not only totally agree, I am currently arguing for LO on precisely
those grounds. The cost of licensing only gets me a hearing. The argument
that converting from early MO to current LO is a smoother transition than
upgrading to MS2011 is the one I think will carry the day.
I also argue that:
LO is showing significant strength, acceptance, and vigor, and therefor has a
sufficient secure future (important)
That ODT is the international "standard," not DocX (there is widespread
distaste for DocX so this works well politically)
LO is a better "cross-platform" product (the "media" business has a large Mac
population, unfriendly to MS)
Unfortunately, my arguments are largely unproven. All it would take would be
one important client raving about their conversion to LO. That could happen as
our clients are largely non-commercial. But, it has not. Rather, they use
very old versions of MS.
So back to the original thread. No, we don't share ODT docs. We share MS2000
docs. In fact, all documents are stored as MS2000, whether created by LO or
MO. I still advocate the MS2000 format as the default, as it is still the
single most widely supported document format in my corner of the world... other
than text/rtf. We have never had a problem with a client opening an MS2000
format doc. Well, not in this decade anyway.
Cheers,
tod
Tod Hopkins
Hillmann & Carr Inc.
todhopkins-at-hillmanncarr.com
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