[plug] OpenOffice.org to the rescue

[J Michael Gilks]

Just recovered a report for a guy at work.
55 pages, lots of graphics, he just spent 15 hours over the weekend finishing 
it off, then burnt it to CD to bring in to work.
When it wouldn't open from the CD he figured it was a coffee coaster and tried 
to open it from the hard disk. Disaster, whole lot of binary rubbish and 
oriental fonts.
After the boss spent 4 hours trying to recover the file on all the different 
windows and metaframe machines we have in the officethey remembered "Oh yeah 
Mike's got this office suite he reckons is all right, maybe he could have a 
go".
I took the CD home, started OpenOffice.org and opened the file. Saved it onto 
my hard drive and emailed it back to him.
Elapsed time 5 minutes.
I still have them telling me OpenOffice.org can't be much good because you get 
what you pay for but perhaps it will be in a softer voice from now on.
PS the best way to have an office suite in an office with 30 Linux 
workstations is to have them access Microsoft Office through a five license 
Metaframe server :)

Just my fun for the day.

Love
Mike.