Re: [us-marketing] Hi my name is Peter and I own a business

On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 14:41 -0500, webmaster for Kracked Press
Productions wrote:
> Hi Peter.
>
> What do you use MS Office suite for?  What version do you use?
>
> I myself have dumped MSO for several years at this point.  For
> Spreadsheet and Word Processing using .doc and .xlt files, I
> prefer to use LibreOffice.  You can read and write these files
> easily.  LibreOffice also has a Presentation module that works
> well with the Power Point file I have needed to edit.  For the
> database work, I am not the one to talk to since I rarely do
> any of that, so you will need to get someone else to walk you
> through what Base can do for you instead of using MS Access.
>
> Since you currently have over 30 desktops and laptops with MSO
> installed [most likely] you can install LibreOffice on any new
> computers instead of buying a MSO license.  Then you can
> install LibreOffice on your other computers, one at a time as
> you get time to do this.  The great part about LibreOffice is that
> you can read/write MSO files so if some of your personnel and
> most of your clients use MSO, the other can still use LibreOffice
> to edit those MSO files.
>
> As for the Linux servers, well they are usually cheaper than using
> MS Server OS.  So do not worry. Just to let you know, LibreOffice
> runs on more computer platforms, like Linux, that MS Office does:
> Windows, Mac OSX, Linux, and some other platforms.  I run it
> on Windows Vista laptop and a Linux [Ubuntu] desktop.  Each
> version looks and runs the same to me.
>
> Feel free to download and install LibreOffice on a few computers.
> Use it for some time to see how it goes.  No need to uninstall MSO
> at this point.  Once you decide that you like LibreOffice, then you
> can faze out MSO over time.  That is what I tell my clients I support
> in Central New York State.

Thank you 

Any other takers?

> On 02/14/2011 01:39 PM, drew wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> > We are interested in your LibreOffice office suite.
> >
> > We are a small business, owned by myself along with my brothers and an
> > uncle. We started as a commemorative stone engraving business 10 years
> > ago, here in Little Rock, Arkansas.
> >
> > Today we supply cemeteries across a three state area, and have expanded
> > into the commercial landscaping rock and cement form business.
> >
> > We employee less then 50 people, but with current projections expect to
> > break the 50 employee barrier, adding the need for more structured
> > accounting practices, sometime this year. We transfer all our
> > information to a local CPA quarterly for taxes, payroll and cash
> > accounts are maintained in-house on a system then our CPA helped us
> > pick-out and setup 7 years ago.
> >
> > Currently we maintain 21 computer workstations in three buildings, at
> > two sites in the Little Rock area.
> >
> > 15 latptops are also used by the sales force.
> >
> > 5 smart phones are used by our field sales force today, but they are not
> > using them much for invoicing yet, something we are very interested in
> > adding however.
> >
> > We use 2 servers at one of our locations and 1 server at the other, all
> > three are maintained by one staff member and a contract with a local
> > service provider.
> >
> > 2 of the servers are I believe running Linux (don't know what kind, I
> > understand there are different kinds, right?) and one runs MS Server,
> > some year..*smile*..I should know, that is the one I am 'on' all the
> > time. *chuckle*
> >
> > So, can I just swap out MS for Libo and go?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Peter



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