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Subject:    Re: [discuss] SO Press and question on cost of transitioning to OOo
From:       Jean-Bruno =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Luginb=FChl?= <jean_bruno_luginbuhl () yahoo ! fr>
Date:       2002-05-24 7:49:50
Message-ID: 1022226591.2415.313.camel () ord_jean ! luginbuhl ! lug
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Hi,

I'm not sure they need a one day course. The longest part would be to
have OOo working the way they are used to, but this could be IT issues.
When I putted OOo here, I've putted it in such a way they would use it
as usual with an MSOffice suite. I got few questions, I am not a big
business but I have three persons using Office here and I have got one
that had some questions and for who it was more difficult (but he is not
a computer expert, he is 60, and have general problem to use a computer,
even with "easy to use" Windows familly :D).

I also installed OOo in an other firm, it is not achieved yet, but I can
say that I have had no question yet. They use it without beeing
specially trained. It is "usual work" of course, I don't ask them for
"special programming".

Where I see the cost is in the "programming" (VBS to StarBasic)
transition. I still have a few document with "programs" I must translate
to OOo from Excel.

Regards

Jean-Bruno

Le lun 27/05/2002 à 06:50, Ken Foskey a écrit :
> On Thu, 2002-05-16 at 23:44, Thomas Dodd wrote:
> > 
> > I'd like to see where thay got that number.
> > Especially the $800 for labor. You install on a server
> > with -net. Then even installing on other machines, as local
> > copies, goes 1)quickly, and 2) multiple machines can install
> > at once. Converting from M$ formats, would be done as needed,
> > and the labor involved is impossible to measure. Different
> > companies will have different issues to work out, but
> > many will just do File->Open, File->SaveAs and be done.
> > A few others will just adjust fonts and margin setting
> > and also be done.
> 
> 
> A one day course here would cost about $400 ( roughly $200 US) and you
> may have to send everyone on a course to learn about it.  Each person
> missing for a day would be another few hundred dollars.  Then the follow
> up phone calls to make it work the way they are used to.
> 
> Now does anyone remember that word 2.0 and word 6.0 were different in
> their interface and the transition pain from one to the other.
> 
> KenF
> 
> 
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