one thing that's been around in any "future movie" is robots that keep humans from doing The Hard Work.
I know that there is already a vacuum cleaner around, but I'm still waiting for the day where I can sit and ask my robot to bring me my PS2 so I can have some fun while he makes something to eat.
This also falls in the World Destruction prediction aka Terminator stuff..:)
You really should care if you can log in via LDAP in a Windows AD; or if you can share a file betweens different OSs, or be able to map a network drive.. but file formats ?
If you want to send anything to outside your organization, send if in PDF format. Its portable and "write-protected". And inside your organization, for sure someone already has ditacted a office package as "the standart". If it is Windows Office, KOffice or StarOffice, it doesn't matter, because everybody will use the same product. If you get some of this files from outside, just use one of the many converters available around.
The problem with the Linux Office packages is simply one: Everybody that already worked 2 days with a computer knows how to work with MS word, MS powerpoint and MS excel. Switching to another office package is seen as a dificult task, because the interface is always diferent.
My 2euros (cents dont buy you anything these days)
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one thing that's been around in any "future movie" is robots that keep humans from doing The Hard Work.
:)
I know that there is already a vacuum cleaner around, but I'm still waiting for the day where I can sit and ask my robot to bring me my PS2 so I can have some fun while he makes something to eat.
This also falls in the World Destruction prediction aka Terminator stuff..
You really should care if you can log in via LDAP in a Windows AD; or if you can share a file betweens different OSs, or be able to map a network drive.. but file formats ?
If you want to send anything to outside your organization, send if in PDF format. Its portable and "write-protected".
And inside your organization, for sure someone already has ditacted a office package as "the standart". If it is Windows Office, KOffice or StarOffice, it doesn't matter, because everybody will use the same product.
If you get some of this files from outside, just use one of the many converters available around.
The problem with the Linux Office packages is simply one:
Everybody that already worked 2 days with a computer knows how to work with MS word, MS powerpoint and MS excel. Switching to another office package is seen as a dificult task, because the interface is always diferent.
My 2euros (cents dont buy you anything these days)