AMNESIAC7 Burned by OpenOffice OpenOffice.org is a mediocre alternative to Microsoft Office for some tasks. No OS level file locking support Poor tab support in Word documents Poor cell formatting behavior in Excel spreadsheets I got burned by OpenOffice. I stuck my neck out as an IT administrator in my company and made a suggestion to use OpenOffice as an alternative to Microsoft Office in order to save money. Management at my company liked the idea and went along with it; half of the company opted to use OpenOffice instead of Microsoft Office… we made it a voluntary thing. Anyway, a year later, with the release of OpenOffice.org 3.0, we start running into many problems that have been identified, and there doesn’t seem to be any initiative to resolve these issues by the developers. Now, we are back to Microsoft Office only as our corporate standard; and, we have purchased several new licenses of Microsoft Office for everyone. If you’re thinking about bringing it into your company to save a little money; my advice: don’t waste your time…. buy Microsoft Office.
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