Re: [libreoffice-users] MS problems

On 01-10-12 16:22, Pertti Rönnberg wrote:
> Hello Joep,
> Thank you for your reply.
> I am happy to say I had the privilege to in business visit your very
> beautiful and interesting country - and especially Amsterdam - some
> times very, very many years ago.
> I am also retired since ten years back and used to work on manager level
> in some companies mostly in metal industry, planning and delivering plants.
> But not IT, I am an IT consumer since early 1980 - so you surely know
> that IT field from 'inside' better than me but I know quite well the
> decision making in my former environments.
>
> I have for years been very well aware of all what you say about MS's
> behavior and marketing policy - I agree with you completely and do
> dislike the situation as much as you.
> In many (most) companies/organizations (other than IT) the managers have
> quite little own knowledge in IT why they do not have many alternatives:
> they have to buy the IT from outside (more or less) experts or build up
> a IT-dept of their own. In both cases they have to rely on other
> people's knowhow and recommendations.
> And if all (95% ?) your important contacts, customers, officials,
> private, etc. use Windows, and all of your own staff know (only)
> Windows/MSO  then the economic calculation says that you must "talk the
> same language" -- you can not afford anything else.
>
> I strongly disagree with you about Jay's and Wolfgang' s behavior - take
> a look at my parallel post "MS problems" some minutes earlier.
> If these managers concentrate on their own jobs - and buy the IT - it
> does not qualify them to be called "IT-illiteral morons" as Jay and
> Wolfgang did.
>
> In 30 years I have had no problems (!) with the Windows' programs (the
> cost are a relative matter), but from January this year when installing
> LibO I have had too much problems with Base (and Calc) - and according
> to this list there are a lot of others having real problems with LibO too.
> In my opinion there is only one way for LibO:   to become in every way
> better than MSO especially for ordinary private users, user friendly,
> stable, reliable, free of bugs and problems. These will then make it
> easier for companies to convert to OpenSource/LibO.
> Best regards
> Pertti Rönnberg (Finland)
> The End!

Well Pertti,
Endangering myself to go after your End(!) I have never used Microsoft 
products except when clients needed to have links with WIndows programs 
but I lived in luxury as we represented Silicon Graphics an the products 
we sold and supported either specific or Internet related. However I 
must confess that for administrative tasks we used Windows related 
applications (WordPerfect and some Borland related spreadsheets 
programs) as the unix workstations were used either for graphics or 
network-related tasks.
But I remember our technical people all grumbling about the lousy 
Windows as OS and they preferred to let some whizzkid we had as 
apprentice to solve Windows problems.
Before I had my company (~ '75 - '90) I was head of a neuroscience 
department where we did real-time signal analysis on EEG-signals and all 
systems (Intel 286) used DOS as OS for the programs (mostly FORTRAN & 
PASCAL).Further signal analysis was done on a PDP-11's so we're talking 
about another era where PC's barely existed. There is a nice anecdote 
about the CEO of DEC who was presented with a "PC" (the DEC-1) in '79 
and he refused to take it into production as he was convinced that 
nobody would buy such a toy! Little did he know.....
Joep



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