[Techtalk] WHY everyone should use Linux

[James]

On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 18:58:08 -0400, you wrote:

>Conor Daly wrote:
>> If you can convince someone with some clout to allow you to, install
>> OpenOffice.org on certain users' machines and tell them it's the latest
>> 'Office'.  They'll put in the extra effort to learning it and pride in
>> 'having the latest version' will prevent them from complaining.
>
>I'm very close to making the desktop switch in our office (the servers 
>have been Linux since 1998).  The reason we haven't done it before now 
>is that I was waiting for OpenOffice.org to be "ready".  Unfortunately, 
>it's still not, and given the nature of the problems I have with it, I'm 
>not sure it ever will be.

I'm inclined to agree - it's been around in one form or another for a
*very* long time now, so I'd be surprised if it suddenly changed
dramatically...

>So I'll be going with Microsoft Office apps running under Crossover 
>Office (from the Wine folks at codeweavers.com) and hoping that at some 
>point there will be a viable alternative.  Given that I've had them 
>using Netscape-> Mozilla from day one, I'm expecting the transition to 
>be fairly smooth; learning to log in and log out is going to be the 
>biggest problem, I think.
(snip)
>(Unfortunately, the accounting department really wants to go Linux too 
>but I have yet to find an accounting package that does what we need it 
>to do.)

What are they running now? If you're buying Crossover Office to run
Office anyway, you may well have better luck getting a Windows package
to run under it - despite the name, it's not exclusively for MS
Office.


James.