[ale] Transition to OpenOffice / Dumb salespeople rant!!! OT

[Keith Morris]

sorry, I just had to drop a quick note to blow off some steam.  I have 
been pushing to move our company as open source as possible and have 
been fairly successful.  Finally I convinced the boss to "beta test" 
OpenOffice on some of our sales peoples machines (I have already 
successfully moved all of the production machines to OO). So yesterday 
one of our project managers installed OO on his and a sales persons 
machine.  I hadn't even gotten a chance to go setup their options for them.

Well, I get a call earlier from one of the sales people saying... "I was 
working on a document with 'that open office' that you have been 
tracking...I had been working on it for about 2 hours...went to 
lunch...came back and made some more changes then selected some text and 
it crashed...it said it would try to recover the document, but it failed 
and I lost everything.  So I'm dumping that thing and going back to Word 
because I can't afford for that to happen."

To this I asked if he was saving the document all along and he said "No, 
   I probably should have been, but I'm still dumping it."

Every day I feel more and more like "Fred" from the CDW 
commercials..."Hey Fred, I fixed my laptop but it still doesn't work"

Thanks for the vent.

Keith Morris
Creative Director
Design / Effects
IQ Television Group
Atlanta, GA
404-255-3550
http://www.iqtv.com



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