Hi Jürgen, 2014-02-04 Jürgen Schmidt <jogischm...@gmail.com>:
> > advocating OpenOffice against Ms Office is indeed no easy job and yes > the change of a comfortable work environment to a new one is not easy > for many users who simply want to do their job without bigger > preferences to one or the other program. Good luck. > Thanks for your answer. To be honest I never present AOO against MS Office, but as a complement to MS Office, to open certain files or for a use at home, or with some extensions, etc. I don't will push people to a radical change, especially in sensible areas where they could have too many interoperability issues or in case I know there is locally no structure able to support such a change. But of course, there are areas in a company where AOO can be viewed as an excellent alternative, without inconvenients, and in this case, it's certainly a good choice to suggest. For instance, I know a MS Office user (a teacher) who uses only AOO for translations with the Anaphraseus extension. He will perhaps never change totally for AOO, and I have no problem with that. But as we have in CH a lot of users with daily translation works between French English German and Italian, I know he has made a demand (no response up to now) for a systematic installation of AOO+Anaphraseus near MS Office on all the PCs in the Swiss Administration. The alternative Wordfast for MS Office is certainly more sophisticated but costs 400 euros pro licence. Another advantage of this "soft" approach is to give people an opportunity to discover AOO without stress and use it at home if they will. Also a possible way to enlarge the basis of the users. For schools the situation is a little different, OOo4Kids is clearly the solution for the primary school and AOO the best free solution for students after 12 years. In this area a more "combative" attitude is suitable, I find. A+ -- gw > > >
