Can a Small Business Migrate Smoothly To OpenOffice.org v3?

Posted by timothy on Tuesday January 20, 2009 @07:00AM from the has-anyone-here-been-officially-trained-in-office dept.

Pay The Piper writes "As an IT Support Technician in a small corporation, I've been tasked by one of my managers to determine the feasibility of transitioning our small 40 or 50 person office from Microsoft Office 2000 to Open Office 3.0. What are some of the problems I may run into as far as document cross compatibility? Has the Open Office suite evolved to a point that permits easy transition from Microsoft's suite? Besides the obvious 'free vs. expensive' argument, what are some of the pros and cons of transitioning? Are there any reliable ways to view/edit/save a document saved in the OpenXML format through Open Office, or are my co-workers and I still going to be stuck in Microsoftland?" (Given that company-wide rollouts take some time to implement, this early look at the features of OO.o 3.1 may have some relevance, too.)

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Re:Short and long answers? by homesnatch · 2009-01-20 07:27 · Score: 5, Funny

Yes.. Outlook has the ability to send emails for any such messages. Outlook is part of MS Office, so just make sure you have that installed.
Re:OpenXML Plug-In Exists for Novell's OO.o by Anonymous Coward · 2009-01-20 08:53 · Score: 5, Funny

Technically it would be binary lob or blob, since binary blob is redundant:)
Blob = binary large object
Just thought I would be annoying and point that out ;)