Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Is 3.5.4 ready for business users?

Correction what I wrote applies only to the Windows version.  I don't 
have g.u.i. installed on Linux, I need something stable to use and 
haven't tried this on my mac yet.

On Sat, 2 Jun 2012, Spencer Graves wrote:

> On 6/2/2012 8:37 AM, Andreas S?ger wrote:
> > Am 02.06.2012 16:46, webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote:
> > > There seems to be differenting opinions on how business ready 3.5.3 was
> > >
> > > So now that LO 3.5.4 is out,
> > >
> > > I ask the users, is it ready to be deployed to my/our business users?
> > >
> > > We really need to know.
> > >
> > > The last "official" word on the 3.5.x line was that business users would
> > > research the package before downloading and installing it.
> > >
> > > Well, I do not know how they will to all that research, or where they
> > > will get the documentation for it, before downloading it.
> > >
> > > So I am asking LO users the question.
> > > Is 3.5.4 ready for our business and/or enterprise users?
> > >
> > > The doc people are work hard to get more 3.5.x line documentation out,
> > > but to be honest about it people can still use 3.3.x and 3.4.x docs till
> > > 3.5.x comes out.
> >
> > What is the problem with 3.5? What are your conclusions when a user like me
> > or Tom states that everything is fine with 3.5? I am a completely untypical
> > user who skipped the whole 3.4 series after writing a bunch of bug reports.
> > Tom has an entirely non-technical view on the project. The overall service
> > quality of this particular user list is really bad.
> >
> > The bug tracker can tell all unresolved issues that do exist in 3.5 but not
> > in 3.4? Don't ask me how. I file my bugs to the AOO tracker where it serves
> > both projects.
>
>
>       What does it need to do to be "business ready"?
>
>
>       I don't know, but I suspect that Google probably uses it.  I heard over
> a year ago that Google employees were forbidden to use MS Windows:  The
> primary alternatives were Mac OS and Linux.  I was also told that Google paid
> people full time to do nothing but contribute to open source projects.  I
> suspect they probably have the same attitude today towards MS Office as toward
> the operating system.
>
>
>       I've used LibreOffice or Open Office for over 3 years now as a 100%
> replacement for MS Office.  I was motivated by two things:  (a) I had lost my
> job and resolved to pay for software only if I could not find a comparable,
> Free Open-Source Software (FOSS) alternative.  (b) I saw no need to pay
> Microsoft for forcing me to learn where they hid all the controls on their new
> version.  Since then, I've had some compatibility problems with LO import and
> export of MS Word documents, and I still cannot control LO Impress as good as
> I could MS PowerPoint.  On the other hand, I've started using the LO
> "Synchronize Labels" feature, and I never used a comparable feature in MS
> Word;  it may be there, but I never used it.
>
>
>       Spencer Graves
> p.s.  I'm the President of a start-up.  We have not hired anyone new but if
> and when we do, I plan to ask them to try LO before I pay for MS Office.  My
> Chief Engineer still has MS Office and has not seen a need to try LO -- and
> the incompatibility problems have not been sufficient for me to push him to
> use LO.  I'm not sure, but I think my Chief Financial Officer uses LO.

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