Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Enterprise adoption of LibreOffice

On 2/14/13 1:03 AM, C. Olofson wrote:

> I can't speak to licensing terms but with respect to adoption of
> anything other than MSO: in my (limited) experience with both companies
> and non-profits, most resistance to moving away from MSO comes from the
> workers who use MSO.

Resistance to change from users is definitely the bigger barrier to
migrations, and this is why a migration project should be more focused
on breaking this barrier than selling any feature. I would say that the
problem is 80% psycological and 20% technical.

> That attitude, in my opinion, is the biggest barrier to LibO adoption;
> even bigger than MS' fud machine.

Microsoft is working at different levels: FUD on decision makers (with
feature comparison, scaring statements on licenses, pressure and lobby,
and so on) and lock in features on end users (the ribbon and C-Fonts are
lock in features).

Microsoft largest expense on Office is the communication budget, which
is way bigger than the development budget.

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