Posted: 6/11/2008 6:40:37 PM EDT
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How may of you use openoffice instead of M$ at work? I can't swing M$ Office for all our machines and want to see if anyone has done this. Thanks |
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Problem is what - 75% or more of the world is MS. Teaching people to use OpenOffice is a time waster. They have MS at home and expect to have the same programs at work. The average users doesn't care about Linux, OpenOffice, Gnome, KDE, or a host of other open software. They want MS. They know MS. Av. |
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Many teachers and students at my school have been very happy with OpenOffice. I haven't heard anyone complain about learning something new--they seem to figure it out on their own just fine. Several students have REALLY liked the portable apps version, since it stays on their USB key and they have it wherever they go. |
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i would be personally interested, but my question is, can you do managed installations similar to MS office? as soon as we join computers to our domain, they automatically get MS office installed, with all of our customizations, via a GPO. also, can you manage updates for openoffice on a domain? there is not much room for OO at my workplace, as alot of our software is heavily integrated into MS office. for other applications, free is hard to beat! 
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