[mdlug] IBM plants Linux on the desktop

Peter Bart peter at petertheplumber.net
Tue Feb 13 17:17:52 EST 2007


On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 12:46 -0500, Ingles, Raymond wrote:
> > From: Michael Corral
> > Robert Adkins a ecrit:
> 
> > > The only problem is overcoming the beliefs that end users have that
> > > they can *ONLY* work with MS Office and nothing else.
> > 
> > I don't think that is as big a problem as some people think.
> 
>  Well, my wife is tired of OpenOffice and wants to go back to MS Office.
> She uses office stuff a lot more than me and has been doing it for a few
> months now, but she's done with the learning curve.
> 
>  Any advice?

	Staroffice. I feel it's much more polished than OO and well worth the
price. Not to knock them down in the least, Staroffice is based on OO.
If you want to try it I have extra licenses.


> > It's just an office app, fer crying out loud, not something worth
> > risking your job over. They'll get used to it.
> 
>  I'm not risking my marriage over it, either. :->
> 
>  Sincerely,
> 
>  Ray Ingles                                       (313) 227-2317

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