Hi Mark, We (Sun + migration partners) are currently helping several OpenOffice.org and StarOffice enterprise and government users with their (macro) migrations.
As was already mentioned here on the list, we are working on macro migration tools. The migration results based on the files that we are getting via our migration partners are very promising. Thus, why do you think it would be difficult to use StarOffice instead of OpenOffice.org? What are the objections? Since you say it's one of the top 100 companies, per-seat license costs for StarOffice should be fairly low! Best regards, Erwin Mark Harrison wrote:
Hi all, I had lunch today with the IT Director (English Term - US Equivalent of CIO) of one of the UK's top 100 companies today. One of the thing that came up was Office suites, and it turns out that he uses OOo at home, and is very impressed. His comments included things like: - We could give this to 90% of our users, and they wouldn't know the difference [from MSO] - Our problem would be the "power users" who've developed macros, particularly accountants - The biggest cost would be the costs of changing, so the time would be when we need to upgrade for other reasons. What I'd like to do is go back to him in the next few weeks with a more formal pitch to start a proper "OOo evaluation project" with which, naturellement, my consultancy will be happy to help :-) I put this last comment in to make sure that I'm being open that this message is VERY self-serving before anyone spends time helping under the impression I'm doing this for the good of humanity :-) So, the questions are: - Any hope in hell for tools to aid migration from VBA (particularly in Excel) into OOo? - Any case studies of large (10,000 seats +) organisations moving. Please note that the "buying signs" from him were specificially about OOo, and NOT StarOffice - he was well aware of the difference between the two, and thought that OOo seemed, strategically, a better way to go... the question is whether / when it will be good enough to topple the incumbent. M. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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