> -----Original Message----- > From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of NoOp > Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 7:27 AM > > Sun have over 40,000 users running OOo/StarOffice, Sony Corp > have thousands of users running the same, governments have > thousands of users running the same. So I'm a little confused > as to why you find that OOo "it isn't there yet". > Each time I think about major deployment I am wondering how they are dealing with literally dozens usabilitiy issues and how much it costs them. [shudder]
> > Yes they do. I suppose that you've also evaluated the > technical and financial transition from MSO pre-2007 to MSO2007? Office 2003 is still available for order and even if you buy corp license for 2007 you still can use 2003 (if I am not mistaken), so do not be focused on 2007. > > It appears that you have a select range of issues, I'm > unsure. Do you have more reports open in addition to 78470? > > OOo certainly isn't perfect, it does indeed have bugs; > however to make a blatent & open statement such as: > > > There are hidden costs. For one, a VERY buggy office suite. I am > > using it for a business now, piloting the software as my company is > > considereing switching. I can 99.9% guarantee you that the > cost you > > pay in time dealing with bugs and design flaws is much more costly > > than just buying MS Office. I think that most non-casual OO users know where our office causes pain. Here is _partial_ list of stuff that causes _everyday_ pain for thousands and thousands of our users. Most of those are not considered to be bugs as product behaves by specification, but specification itself is bad from user experience point of view. Data loss - http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=17171 Printing problem - http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=29924 No built-in landscape style - http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=65295 D&D for columns/rows - http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=14007 No R1C1 - http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=20857 http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=33851 Omission in ODF specification itself - http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=35579 Thank god Calc team finally agreed to fix http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=29807 And http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=25278 No way to increase/decrease font size for the whole slide - http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=8824 Sound is interrupted when moving to next slide - http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=24969 Animations are not repeated - http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=54019 http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=7553 http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=11831 http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=22133 http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=33668 Interested users can vote for some of those. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
