On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 10:46 -0500, John W. Kennedy wrote: > Gary Husband wrote: > > I am trying to convince my place of work to offer Open Office as an > > alternative to Microsoft office but at present I am getting my companies > > standard reply of it is Open Source and that is issued under GPL which > > usually costs businesses money and will not be free for us to install. > > Go to that individual's boss and explain that he is incompetent, and/or > has been bribed by Microsoft. > > >>From looking at your website I cannot see reference to companies being > > charged, can you please confirm if a company which employs approx 3000 > > people would charged for adopting Open office as one of it's office tools > > suites ? > > If you wish traditional software support, you are probably better off > getting StarOffice from Sun. StarOffice is essentially the same thing as > OpenOffice.org (the legal name of the software), with a few additional > features. You have to pay for it, but it is about 1/10 the cost of > Microsoft Office. > > But if you can accept OpenOffice.org as-is, and can deal with using this > mailing list for support, it is absolutely free (unless you get it on a > CD, in which case you'll have to pay a little for the CD itself). You > don't have to pay one penny, no matter how many copies you have. You can > even give it away to others. >
Seems people are not aware that commercial support is available of OpenOffice.org from Sun Microsystems. Please see http://support.openoffice.org/index.html for the link. -- PLEASE KEEP MESSAGES ON THE LIST. OpenOffice.org Documentation Co-Lead http://documentation.openoffice.org/ -- PLEASE KEEP MESSAGES ON THE LIST. OpenOffice.org Documentation Co-Lead http://documentation.openoffice.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
