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What *can't* you do in Linux?
billy_gates:
quote:Originally posted by emh:
Yet you said in the aforementioned thread that the stuff you wanted to install installed just fine. What happened?
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through some miracle I went to the auto update thing in RH and it fixed it. I don't know how. But I still was not able to do what I wanted to do. RH is no longer on my PC. So I can't elaborate (its been a while).
KernelPanic:
I think think the tight-fisted IT budgets at the moment can only help OOo, although stupid businesses will probably just get warez MS Office :(
HibbeeBoy:
quote:Originally posted by M505:
Well, I don't know about you but I certainly don't care if my boss has to pay for the Office products or not.
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No, that's right, you don't know about me. I am an IT decision maker and I do care how much I need to spend on applications. So for me, I need to really consider these things. Most of the desktop PC (about 35) are running Win 98 with Office'97 with a few XP boxes starting to creep in. I want to stop that in it's tracks. Our needs, like our users, are simple so OO would probably be a good fit. Hey, it's probably not for everybody but on cost alone, it's very appealing.
I look forward to the day when I can announce the organisation is a Microsoft free zone.
The compatibilty with Office documents can easily be worked around - print a hard copy and mail/fax the bloody thing. There is a dangerous premise starting to permuate throughout corporate culture that in order to do business, it has to be through computers. Too often I see IT being a hinderence to conducting business. Just my opinion, I could be wrong !
spencerpi:
Well, computers and the internet have evolved very far, so far that e-mail has become a powerful medium to do data exchange.
Reverting to paper/fax is going back years, I think. Seems like a harsh thing to do just to cope with the different between MS and OO.
But hey : if it makes you happy, do it.
That said, this is getting a bit off topic.
HibbeeBoy:
quote:Originally posted by M505:
Well, computers and the internet have evolved very far, so far that e-mail has become a powerful medium to do data exchange.
Reverting to paper/fax is going back years, I think. Seems like a harsh thing to do just to cope with the different between MS and OO.
But hey : if it makes you happy, do it.
That said, this is getting a bit off topic.
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Aye, you're right, a bit off topic and no, it doesn't make me happy either. If M$ can't make their documents compatable with "standards" then they (in my opinion) have a flawed product. It's M$'s constant hijacking of "standards" that screw everything up.
Still off topic, I remember when I got into IT the hype was "The Paperless Office". What happened to that ?
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