Re: OT: OpenOffice not 100% compatible?

Hello Joel,


Their marketeers do not seem to understand how much business that is costing them. I do not upgrade anything unless I absolutely have to.

Well, I suspect you're not in the average Microsoft marketing guy's target demographic then. :-) The big bucks surely must come from large institutions who can be convinced to upgrade on a regular basis every time a new version of Windows or Office or whatever comes out.


Depends on who runs them. When I ran the divison of a company that didn't fly. It's amazing how expensive upgrades can get if you are talking about dozens of stations. If an engineer had a compelling reason why a new version of FPGA or CAD tool was needed, fine. Otherwise I'd convince them to stick with the tried and true. One thing that really helps is to let engineers actually do part of the budget during the yearly budgeting session. "Wow, this is how much we pay for electricity?"


Sooner or later everyone tends to be "strongly encouraged" to upgrade anyway, once they start receiving documents from their peers in newer formats their software can't handle. After getting the 10th such document in a week and having to ask the sender to convert and re-send, the recipient figures that dealing with the problem might just be easier if *he* were the one making the change.


That can backfire. With Word it has, at least for a long time. The unspoken rule is to turn on all '97 compatibility options. With CAD SW there came a point where I just had it with lack of compatibility, dumped the system and switched to a competitor who knows how it's done. The chances of me ever coming back are slim to none.

Regards, Joerg

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