Re: [us-marketing] Re: [libreoffice-documentation] White Paper

Thank you for sharing this.
We now have two White Paper on LibreOffice migrations.


Cheers

Immanuel


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On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 12:17 AM, dbclinton <dbclin@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Tim,
> Thanks for your note. I believe that my source was
> http://www.idealware.org/**articles/msoffice_vs_**openoffice.php<http://www.idealware.org/articles/msoffice_vs_openoffice.php>
> - and specifically this:
>
>    "Interestingly, OpenOffice can open substantially older versions of
>    Microsoft Office files than Microsoft Office itself can, or even
>    some corrupted files that Microsoft Office can't open. For an IT
>    department, OpenOffice is worth having around just for that."
>
> However, it would certainly be nice to confirm it. Does anyone have
> anything else on this?
> David
>
> On 13-10-29 10:06 PM, Tim Lloyd wrote:
>
> > Hi David, I have nothing to add to the doc which I think provides a
> > suitable launchpad to interest management. One comment though:
> >
> >     Not only that, but MS Office 2010 and 2013 can't even open some
> >     documents created in earlier versions of MS Office itself,
> >
> > Do we actually have a reference point for this? If I was behind the
> > bosses chair and I could see the impact of upgrading MSO then this would be
> > a significant point.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> >
> > On 30/10/13 07:03, dbclinton wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > > I've completed a draft of my white paper making the business case for LO
> > > over MS Office.
> > > For now, for want of a better solution, I've branded it as part of the
> > > LibreOffice Document Foundation and put it in its own folder on the ODF
> > > site here:
> > > http://www.odfauthors.org/**libreoffice/english/white_**
> > > papers/transition-from-ms-**office-to-libreoffice-white-**paper<http://www.odfauthors.org/libreoffice/english/white_papers/transition-from-ms-office-to-libreoffice-white-paper>
> > > For those who can't access it there, you can download a PDF here:
> > > http://www.marbitz.com/**portfolio/LO_White_Paper.pdf<http://www.marbitz.com/portfolio/LO_White_Paper.pdf>
> > > I'm interested in any and all comments, corrections and thoughts as to
> > > how it could be put to good use. Perhaps someone might also cross-post this
> > > email to marketing@global.libreoffice.**org<marketing@global.libreoffice.org>- I've tried a 
> > > couple of times to join up only to be steadfastly ignored
> > > (my email mysteriously disappears down the Internet's terrifying, gaping
> > > maw).
> > > Regards,
> > > David Clinton
>
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