[plug] Oxymoron: Microsoft, innovation

[Kai Jones]

We have some applications here (Ferret, Medical Director), I've googled
the hell out of that and haven't found a Linux version, nor do I know if
they'll work adequately through WINE or similar.

I don't think a 100% move to OSS here would be practical, too many
things implemented by people who know MS and nothing else, but a few
months ago I began the crusade to get everyone to switch to Firefox and
of course a lot of people are like "I want my Microsoft Explorer" and
they'll require some work but we'll see.

The main problem is because we use Exchange server, and Office 2003 Pro
Corporate there are a lot of Office <-> Exchange features which I'm not
sure are available on OSS' equivalent, but I'm happy to be corrected on
that.

Cheers
Kai

-----Original Message-----
From: plug-bounces at plug.org.au [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org.au] On
Behalf Of Jason Posavec
Sent: Thursday, 15 June 2006 10:47 AM
To: plug at plug.org.au
Subject: Re: [plug] Oxymoron: Microsoft, innovation

Are all the Pluggers in positions of influence encouraging their 
companies to use ODF  where possible? And when told that Microsoft 
Office doesn't support this format, are they then explaining that OOo 
has all the functionality of MO, but without the productivity-robbing 
bells and whistles?

Forcing somebody to change completely to Linux in one step is a huge 
ask. But walking them one application at a time (OOo, Firefox, 
Thunderbird, GIMP, Jabber) until there's nothing left but the OS to 
change might not be such a sudden shock.

Jason



Kai Jones wrote:
> We all know it, but here's a nice article for any of your friends who
> have been seduced by the dark side, it's short enough to keep their
> interest raher than being a novel that they'll see and go "can't be
> bothered"
> http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS9006356588.html
>
> ...and before you say it, yes I am writing this using MS Outlook via
> Exchange server, I'd love to use open source in every area practical
> here but some people's minds take a long time to change.