Emanuele Gissi & Alessia Franceschi wrote:
> My project is to start the right (and economic) way: an open-source
> only organisation. So, I plan to use Linux, StarOffice 6 (soon coming?) and
> LyX, of course, for all the reporting activity.
>
> I already know that I will be facing several problems and oppositions.
> The worst of the problems, that I should solve before formal proposal, is the
> following: our likely partners work on Win and MSOffice only.
>
Hello Emanuele,
if you are really serious in using an open source system only the best way to
solve this problem might be to pay someone for taking care of the described
issue.
This sounds very expensive at a first glance but it is not necessarily. There
are several auction services on the Internet where you can offer a certain
amount for solving a certain problem. As they all have different procedures to
handle this task, I will not describe it in detail here.
E.g. you offer 100 Euro and others will jump on it and all of them put another
100 Euro on top of it. So, the sum might become several thousand Euro and some
good hackers that have spent a lot of their time on similar problems will take
the opportunity and do the job. The result will be released as open source and
you can adjust it to your needs (or pay another 100 Euro to get improved :-) ).
As this particular problem is a common one you might find many compaignes having
the same one ...
http://visar.csustan.edu/bazaar/bazaar_catoffers.html
If you want to have some more auction services, mail me ...
Think about it ...
and have a nice day!
Steffen
