Terrance,
The point I was making was that there are other factors at work that
limit adoption of the best solution, OOo.
My boss sees no need to change. MS Office is what he is used to and has
and has no reason to change.
Since he is the boss, he makes sure that MS Office is on all the PC's
when he orders them. So moving others
to OOo is a bit of an uphill battle at best.
I cannot beat him over the head with cost savings since he has MS
Office on the machines already. Superior
performance won't do it either as MS Word does what he needs well
enough and he is used to it and there is
a cost in effort to switch. ODF won' do it as everyone he exchanges
files with uses Word.
Any other motivators that I can use?
Ross Bernheim
On Sep 20, 2006, at 12:25, Terence W C Warby wrote:
I would have thought that working in a small business would have made
it easier to adopt alternatives to M$ software. I work in a business
with about 17 full time personnel. Up to two years ago we had to work
with a motley collection of PC's running on Win 95, 98 and Me, using
various versions of M$ Office. When our Director decided to update our
network and buy new machines he asked me to manage the job. Although I
didn't manage to eliminate M$ software entirely, we are running on Win
XP, there is no M$ office software on any of our PC's. The transition
to OpenOffice.org was quick, painless and very cost effective. All I
had to do was show that OOo could do the jobs we wanted done, that it
could read any M$ documents that we had already produced and could
produce M$ format documents if required by a client. Job done - No
problem.
Terry W
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