Hi Ritesh. Being a promoter of Open Source, i feel very very happy to know that some company has decided to shift to open office.
-- Regards, Vikram Gaur IIRA Technologies +91-9871390284 +91-129-2510316 +91-129-6457502 ------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------- "Making Linux and Open Source work for you" "You can be Corporate House You can be Acedemic Institution You can be Small Business House You can be Individual IIRA Making Linux and Open Source work for you Since 2000" ------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------- On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 19:12 +0530, Ritesh Verma wrote: > Hello all, > > First of all many congratulations for achieving this 'herculean' task of > making OpenOffice a great success. > > I work as IT Manager in my organisation, which has main office at Mumbai, > India; and project offices spread across India. I came across OpenOffice > in Aug-07, during my quest for alternative to MS Office, so pretty new to > OOo. But yes it did not took much time to realise the capability of OOo > and open source. After working for 2 months on OOo, i approached my > management with a proposal of migrating all users to OOo with a comparison > of licensing cost of purchasing MS Office, to which management agreed and > gave a go ahead. The user base is around 250 users spread across the > country, and with the release of OOo 3.0, 95% of the users are today > working on OOo 3.0. It was ofcourse not easy task as we had to go through > long process of convincing users to move to new platform, but yes we > managed that. The remaining 5% users had to be kept on MS Office because > of some issues with the applications being used such as Oracle Apps users > and few other applications. > > Over a period of time, every day has been a new learning experience and > whatever things we come across during the normal course of using the > software, we share it with all the users (there is an internal mailing > list, by which all users share info). > > So far so good....but yes there are lot of issues working with 'Impress' > as most of the presentations were made in Powerpoint, so there are > formatting issues. I hope that in due course those issues will also be > taken care by the OOo Development team. > > I was unable to share this info earlier as uptill now we had been busy in > making users comfortable using OOo and sorting out their problems. So now > there is some time available which can be utilized to try and contribute > to the OOo community. > > Thanks again. > > Regards, > > Ritesh Verma > IOT Infrastructure and Energy Services Ltd., > (formerly Indian Oiltanking Ltd.) > 103, Spectra, Hiranandani, > Powai, Mumbai 400076 India > Tel: +91 22 66772700 > Fax: +91 22 66919599 > > Disclaimer: This e-mail transmission and any documents, files, or previous > e-mail messages appended or attached to it, may contain information that > is confidential or legally privileged. If you are not the intended > recipient, or a person responsible for delivering it to the intended > recipient, you are hereby notified that you must not read this > transmission and that any disclosure, copying, printing, distribution, or > use of the information contained or attached to this transmission is > STRICTLY PROHIBITED. If you have received this transmission in error, > please immediately notify the sender by telephone (+91.22.6677.2739) or > return e-mail message ([email protected]) and delete the > original transmission, its attachments, and any copies without reading or > saving in any manner. Thank you.
