Re: Open Source Office

[Pete Helgren <Pete@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I am pleased to see so many positive responses to using Open Office!  I 
dual boot Windows and Suse Linux (10.0) on my notebook and have been 
spending increasing time in Suse lately. Using Open Office as well as 
Firefox (browser), Thunderbird (e-mail client), Sunbird (Calendar) and 
Eclipse make living in both partitions pretty easy.  One of the better 
things about Open Office (2.0) is a more intuitive ODBC (JDBC) 
connection data source scheme that makes working with iSeries data 
easier (again from both WinXP and Suse). That integration plus some 
improving scripting capabilities make Open Office my default office 
suite.  I occasionally have to use an M$ Office app but it has become 
very rare.  I don't see any need to upgrade to any MS Office version, 
now or in the future.

Pete Helgren


Graap, Ken wrote:

> Hi all ... 
>
> Our company is looking to significantly decrease our operating expenses as we move into 2006. 
>
> One thing we currently do is spend a lot of money licensing and supporting an M$ Office server/desktop environment.. 
>
> I'm trying find information relating to a successful replacement of a large 
> Microsoft Office infrastructure with an Open Source office solution. Maybe one 
> that runs on Linux in an iSeries (????) or Linux on an xSeries along with PC 
> based clients or maybe even Linux based clients! Wow, wouldn't that be 
> interesting, no Windows desktops or servers or M$ software... Yikes, will I be 
> struck by lighting for even thinking such a thought?
>
> Anyway... I'd really appreciate hearing from anyone who might want to share a 
> success story that I could then share with my CIO in order to prove that 
> something like this is actually a possibility.
>
> Kenneth
>
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