[ale] A Real Sad Loss for Open Source in the Atlanta Area

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On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
> Ah, but you just hit the nail on the head.  The users already know how
> to use MS/Excel because that's what they've already been exposed to.
> They don't have the time to learn something new; they need to get off
> the ground running.

This argument had some degree of validity until Office 2007 came out.
The learning curve from Office XP to Office 2007 is just as steep as
from Office XP to OOo. Thus, I no longer accept this argument when
applied to any situation where that retraining has already been paid
for (in time, funding, or effort), as that same amount could have paid
for OOo training.