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

[Dow Hurst]

I am very happy since I just opened a Word 2000 document from my boss 
that had chemical structure objects inserted with no problem.  Also, I 
ran a spell checker on OO and saved back out in Word 2000 format.  I 
just checked the file and it had no problems with the chemical objects. 
 So a victory for OO and me!!  Of course I am on Linux and don't use 
Windows anymore.
Dow


Keith Morris wrote:

> 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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