Tom hasn't replied yet to the very informative and supportive feedback
he has gotten. Maybe he is completely stunned, as I was at first, at the
idea that something so good is completely free, no strings attached.
I do a lot of spreadsheet stuff, especially around tax time, and even
though the cell formula syntax is a little different I am finding that
OOo Calc is just as good, and in many ways even better, than the
expensive retail equivalent out of Redmond, WA. Serious users of the not
to be named retail spreadsheet application probably know of longstanding
accuracies in some of the higher math and statistical functions. From
what I can tell in my admittedly limited testing, OOo 2.3 seems to not
have some of these bugs. That sells me. If OOo can handle complex math
better, it can certainly handle the basic arithmetical stuff that almost
all of us use a spreadsheet for in the first place. Like doing taxes,
for example :)
So Mr. Phillips, use OOo in your shops and save a whole bunch of money
in IT costs. IIRC, Fortune magazine actually recommended that companies
turn more to open source software like OOo to save money.
Les
Jo wrote:
Phillips, Tom wrote:
Hi,
I work for a convenience store chain and would like to avoid the cost
of installing Office on the PCs in our 40 locations. I read the
licenses and I am still not sure what I need to do. I downloaded the
software but not sure what license to register for. We would mainly
use the software for spreadsheets we created at the office. Some
stores may create their own spreadsheets. The stores would use
Writer to create memos. We would not be distributing outside of our
company. Please let me know what my next step is.
You can even put OpenOffice.org on a CD-R and pass it to customers as
a service and it is not even forbidden to charge like 1, 5 or 10
euros/dollars for expenses for it. You can also try to charge 500, but
you can't forbid your customer to give it away for free or start
selling it him/herself to somebody else.
Jo
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