Novell, Inc. has already begun to use OpenOffice internally. This began last year and is continuing today.
A large portion of the employees have already made the switch and only the most serious of Excel users have the most issues. Their pivot tables and advanced macros are causing them the most headaches and they tend to move over to MS Office to complete their work.
The only other reason complaints filter into the Help Desk are because Novell's customers and outside contacts still generally use MS Office and as Novell employees make the switch the newbies have a minor learning curve to go through to make sure they save these docs as MS Office docs.
But for these issues, the switch has been going over nicely and continues to roll out to the remainder of the company world-wide.
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Novell, Inc. has already begun to use OpenOffice internally. This began last year and is continuing today.
A large portion of the employees have already made the switch and only the most serious of Excel users have the most issues. Their pivot tables and advanced macros are causing them the most headaches and they tend to move over to MS Office to complete their work.
The only other reason complaints filter into the Help Desk are because Novell's customers and outside contacts still generally use MS Office and as Novell employees make the switch the newbies have a minor learning curve to go through to make sure they save these docs as MS Office docs.
But for these issues, the switch has been going over nicely and continues to roll out to the remainder of the company world-wide.