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Adrian Midgley wrote: > Ben Goodger wrote: > >> Guhh? OOo is a replacement for MSO. >> >> > Microsoft do office software as well? > > Is it in Debian Stable yet? > > > OOo is a wonderful bark up the wrong tree, in the wrong forest! Replacing MSoffice with another office just reinforces the idea that MSOffice is useful. It may be useful to FLOSS in making people aware of open source software but it doesn't actually solve any of the real problems associated with it. If 1/100 the effort spent on OOo had been spent on making a web based office - see http://www.fckeditor.net/ for your document editor, a whole host of web based spreadsheets, <panel> for graphics editing and few tools for doing project planning and html/svga. Email front ends.... Imagine all that working through your browser with data stored on the web server (farm)? >From a company/organisation point of view: No updating every PC in your organisation, no need to worry about laptops going missing. Being in full control of your companies data without having to manage thousands of PC's and servers. For at least 15 years microsoft have managed to sell Office to people, and operating systems to run office, and servers to help manage all of the above when all you needed was a web connection and/or web server , a db and a browser. Google have at last cottoned on to part of this with their online spreadsheet <https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service=wise&passive=true&nui=1&continue=http%3A%2F%2Fspreadsheets.google.com%2Fccc%3Fnew> but for the last fifteen years or so most people have been following the pied piper, and paying him handsomely! Tom te tom te tom. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html