Re: Convincing someone to switch to Linux
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 08:50:43AM +1200, cr wrote:
> Well, to take the analogy back to Linux - vs - Windoze - all word
> processors work pretty much the same. All spreadsheets work pretty
> much the same. The difference between M$Word and AbiWord, or Excel
> and Gnumeric, is no greater than than the difference between Win95 and
> W2K versions of M$Word / Excel. Just like hopping out of an Escort
> into a Vauxhall.
Not quite so.
While OO.o and the like are very close counterparts to MS Office, there
are a few items they just can't do yet (at least not that I've found),
like inter-document linking and embedding between all documents. This
was the killer when I took this road with my employer. I had everything
lined up and ready then this little thing came up. The best I was able
to do was actively embed a spreadsheet within a document and vice versa.
Had the other components of OO.o been able to do the same everything
would have been fine. However, as far as I can tell, they can not. The
closest I was ever able to come with the other components was a static
embedding.
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Jamin W. Collins
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