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From: Rick on 13 Jan 2010 18:49 On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:29:27 +0000, Conor wrote: > In article <slrnhksal6.5sr.jedi(a)nomad.mishnet>, JEDIDIAH says... > >> Open Office is good enough to apply negative price pressure to MSO. > > OOo is no use to anyone who wants to do more than a basic expenses > spreadsheet or homework. Tell them: <http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/ Major_OpenOffice.org_Deployments> -- Rick
From: Snit on 13 Jan 2010 18:58 Rick stated in post 47GdnWwNKaRjxtPWnZ2dnUVZ_uxi4p2d(a)supernews.com on 1/13/10 4:49 PM: > On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:29:27 +0000, Conor wrote: > >> In article <slrnhksal6.5sr.jedi(a)nomad.mishnet>, JEDIDIAH says... >> >>> Open Office is good enough to apply negative price pressure to MSO. >> >> OOo is no use to anyone who wants to do more than a basic expenses >> spreadsheet or homework. > > Tell them: > > <http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/ > Major_OpenOffice.org_Deployments> You really like that link. Now show how they are using the OO spreadsheet. Have fun! -- [INSERT .SIG HERE]
From: JEDIDIAH on 13 Jan 2010 20:46 On 2010-01-13, Conor <conor(a)gmx.co.uk> wrote: > > > In article <slrnhksal6.5sr.jedi(a)nomad.mishnet>, JEDIDIAH says... > >> Open Office is good enough to apply negative price pressure to MSO. > > OOo is no use to anyone who wants to do more than a basic expenses > spreadsheet or homework. ....which as I said before is the vast majority of users. Most users are trapped in a "tyranny of compatability" where they must use tools that would have once been considered "gross overkill" in order to do simple things. They think they are trapped because of a false perception driven by persistent FUD. -- Truth is irrelevant as long as the predictions are good. ||| / | \
From: Conor on 13 Jan 2010 23:18 In article <slrnhkstrh.uit.jedi(a)nomad.mishnet>, JEDIDIAH says... > > On 2010-01-13, Conor <conor(a)gmx.co.uk> wrote: > > > > > > In article <slrnhksal6.5sr.jedi(a)nomad.mishnet>, JEDIDIAH says... > > > >> Open Office is good enough to apply negative price pressure to MSO. > > > > OOo is no use to anyone who wants to do more than a basic expenses > > spreadsheet or homework. > > ...which as I said before is the vast majority of users. > Wrong. The vast majority of office users are in a corporate environment. OOo is not suitable for their needs. -- Conor www.notebooks-r-us.co.uk I'm not prejudiced. I hate everybody equally.
From: Ivor Jones on 13 Jan 2010 23:38
On 14/01/10 04:18, Conor wrote: > In article<slrnhkstrh.uit.jedi(a)nomad.mishnet>, JEDIDIAH says... >> >> On 2010-01-13, Conor<conor(a)gmx.co.uk> wrote: >>> >>> >>> In article<slrnhksal6.5sr.jedi(a)nomad.mishnet>, JEDIDIAH says... >>> >>>> Open Office is good enough to apply negative price pressure to MSO. >>> >>> OOo is no use to anyone who wants to do more than a basic expenses >>> spreadsheet or homework. >> >> ...which as I said before is the vast majority of users. >> > Wrong. The vast majority of office users are in a corporate environment. > OOo is not suitable for their needs. > Oh I don't know. My business needs would be met quite adequately by OOo. Ivor |