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City Of Austin Migrating To OpenOffice.org
An anonymous reader writes "NewsForge.com has a story up this morning about the City of Austin and the results of their pilot program on OpenOffice.org. The bottom line is this: they have found that more than 80% of the city's 5K desktops can use OO.o instead of MS Office. Let the migrations begin!"
Yes, your supervisor will probably "switch" you, for someone who should be doing his job and not surfing the intarweb all day. Either that or send your job to India.
OOo has become so great. I hear you only have to restart it twice every 10 minutes and it only crashes on saving every 3rd time.
Very productive indeed.
Btw.: I hate you all very hard.
Official statement
The gay community welcomes this step.
Open Office is clearly the most homosexual office application suite available.
-- Gays North America Association
"...people need to start getting fired for NOT using OpenOffice"
Grow up. You need to be fired for being a tool. No one should be fired for such a decision. All situations may not be the same as in your little world, no?
I can just picture you trying to pitch that junk to a group of decision makers. BTW, they laugh at you behind your back you know.
I work with local government software. And here is the reality of the users that I have seen. They are about the most moronic people ever, and that is putting it nicely. Most maybe have their GED. Having the ability to call support when these people screw stuff up is invaluable and a real consideration when they sign contracts. I am not talking about email support or online documentation either. I am talking about phone support. I am not aware that open office offers it. They typically want someone they can call up and be told how to fix it.
WHY must you fucks continue to refer to it as "openoffice.org"
I absolutely despise when people tack on a TLD to the name of a piece of software, shit, I think I'll just start referring to everything with its associated TLD.
Hi, I attend Purdue.edu
Our shitty servers at work run software from Microsoft.com
My hometown is Aiken.net
I first attended SC.edu
yeah, sounds just as stupid as I thought it would
This is ridiculous. Even in his post (to a LUG, for heaven's sake) he says that 80% COULD migrate, not that they ARE, or have a plan to, or even are considering it.
So what you've got is probably some reasonably titled geek trying out OpenOffice, and saying that it MIGHT work. The project probably is not even budgeted, possibly not even recognized by his superior as a project to begin with.
Now, after front page postings by \. and SourceForge, I'm betting that at the VERY least, he's in deep crap, and at worst, that he and the project are toast.
Congratulations all 'round, OSDN. Nicely done. Remind me again how what you put here shouldn't be subject to normal journalism.