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List:       openoffice-users
Subject:    Re: [users] I have a few questions about Open Office
From:       Rick Timmis <Rick () uglyrock ! com>
Date:       2002-12-15 0:05:16
Message-ID: 3DFBC73C.10507 () uglyrock ! com
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Hi

If you have 50 users, I would recommend a complete Migrate to Linux. My 
Company has 30 Users and recently made the Move to 98% Linux, using OOo, 
RH7.3 etc... with very little pain. Please feel free to contact me for 
further advice on total migration

Best Wishes

Rick Timmis
IT Director
Super Tramp Ltd
rick@supertramp.co.uk

Wes Allen wrote:

>On Friday 13 December 2002 11:20 am, Ron Abramson wrote:
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>>I have an a Office of 50 PC users.  I am interested in not giving 'Bill'
>>any more money.  Before purchasing or 'implementing' your product, I
>>have a few questions.  I wanted to download the free version to try at
>>home.  I have Windows XP Pro and my wife has Windows 98.
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>>I have read some user opinions about Open Office, and they contradict
>>themselves. Please do not take these questions in a negative manner, I
>>just need to be sure this products fulfils our needs.  Here are the
>>questions:
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>>1.  For win98 and\or WIN XP will Open Office automatically spell check
>>outlook express emails before they are sent out, like Word does?
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>No, because it doesn't have an e-mail module.  I would use Mozilla Mail on 
>Windows as that has a fairly decent spell-checker.
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>>2.  One user complained he had XP and open office used 90% of the
>>resources and when he uninstalled it something was still running in the
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>>     background eating up resources.
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>I've heard this in the past, but I've personally not had that problem when I 
>was running it on XP home edition.
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> Do you really have an
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>>uninstaller?
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>Yes.
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>>3. Does it really 'play well' with Windows XP Pro?
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>Don't know, never used it on XP pro.  It works great in Linux and 98 and XP 
>Home though.
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>>Thanks
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>>
>>Ron
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