[plug] OOo success stories (was: calling Perth)

[Leon Brooks]

On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 13:13, Jacqueline McNally wrote:
> I am receiving more requests from what I call mainstream media IN
> Australia, and it would be really great to have more local success
> stories to share with them.

I have a customer involved in the medical industry. One of their staff 
in particular came to me with his MS-Office installation broken and in 
need of office software right now, as in, he needed the thing working 
within ten minutes and didn't have his laptop's LAN card handy for 
pushing the (huge) document across to another machine for editing and 
printing, so I whipped out a handy OpenOffice-bearing CD, which 
happened to be GnuWin2, and installed OOo 1.0. It read, edited and 
printed his document flawlessly, all the more astonishing to him 
because it mostly wasn't in English.

I more or less forgot about him, being very busy and all, until the next 
time their office blew up a workstation (which they do about every 3 
months, across 8 machines all running Win2k; the only time I've been 
called out for a problem with the (Linux) server and it actually has 
been the server's fault, kinda, the server had been stolen!). He had 
found someone to repair his MS-Office but very rarely used it. He had 
also investigated OOo, discovered that he didn't have the latest 
version, and updated to 1.1.1 all by himself. He much preferred OOo's 
way of doing input in his native language, and he'd used it to recover 
several broken documents for other people. He is a member of a local 
Chamber of Commerce in Australia for a particular nation and has been 
enthusiastically promoting OOo in that Chamber.

I'll ask him if he's happy for me to hand out potentially identifying 
detail.

Cheers; Leon