Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Installing Libreoffice in Ubuntu

On 10/11/2015 12:48 PM, Italo Vignoli wrote:
> On 11/10/15 11:44, Alex Thurgood wrote:
>
> > I would suggest putting yourself in an admin's place where they have
> > probably invested long hours in developing a turnkey
> > OpenOffice/LibreOffice solution for their group of users, then finding
> > one day that that longstanding behaviour has changed because someone
> > else has not thought through a code change due to the tentacular nature
> > of the code base with no one having an overarching knowledge of it all,
> > and you will perhaps understand Andreas' frustration (which I happen to
> > share and have voiced it on the mailing lists in the past).
> During the last four years I have helped to migrate to LibreOffice
> several Italian organizations - especially public administrations - for
> a total of over 30,000 PCs. Today, I am helping the Italian Defense to
> migrate to LibreOffice 150,000 PCs.
>
> I might be incredibly lucky, but I have never experienced significant
> stability issues with LibreOffice, since version 3.5. Of course, when I
> say "I have never experienced" I mean that none of the organizations I
> have helped has experienced significant stability issues. Again, we
> might be extremely lucky here in Italy.
Hi Italo,

The only consistent complaints I hear about LO is that the UI is 
different from various MSO office versions and concerns about handling 
MSO file formats. The first is complaint was often due to user 
unwillingness to learn anything new - not an uncommon problem. This is 
not an LO specific issue. The second issue, to me, is more legitimate. I 
have seen many proprietary document formats for office documents come 
and go over the last 30 years. I can appreciate the concern about being 
able to open documents in a non-native package in the future.

I have not heard of any (my very limited sample) stability issues that 
could be attributed to LO. The stability issues I was seeing were 
Windows issues seen in many packages.


I suspect your stability experience is the norm, LO is very stable. If 
there are issues they are often user unwillingness to change or system 
problems outside of LO.

Jay

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