David_Wallis

Anybody desided against ms upgrade disadvantage and chosen to deploy staroffice instead?

David

suba

go for it (StarOffice 6)! although, have a look at OpenOffice as well.

David_Wallis

Whats OpenOffice?? Also anybody know why you cant use range's in star office's spreadsheets?

David

AllanB

Funnilly enough we're selling stack of MS licencing as everyone rushes to get it done by June to get the 5% discount. The price comparisons are scary. Upgrading now to upgrade advantage saves you about 60% in the first year alone if you do it before the July cut off.

Quite a few big companies are looking at dumping MS due tho thier disgraceful behaviour. Apparently they claimm they are streamlining the licencing shcems to make them easier to understand. You'll still be able to upgrade on boxed product but apparently you cannot upograde licences with boxed product !

I hate Micorsoft so I gave my last PC away and run Macs at home.


Allan

boomer

Allan,

i must admit - that is one of the reasons that i bought an iMac.

Many years ago, when i worked for Digital Equipment, a software support contract cost around 10% of the purchase price per year, for which you got support and free upgrades.

Microsoft charge the earth for upgrades (especially for the consumer), insist that you do so, and in doing so you need a PC with twice the power to run the next incarnation of "the paperclip".

Viva la revolution (or whatever they say)

mb

David_Wallis

For us to be able to upgrade within 2yrs It will cost just short of 1 Million... We see nothing wrong with office 97... so If we think we may want to upg. in next 2 yrs then we need to fork out 1mil.... Or we could go with staroffice and install it on nearly all pcs for circa 30k

What would you do..

David

suba

install OpenOffice!

David_Wallis

Ill have a look at work tommorow..

Cheers

David

David_Wallis

Isnt that the early version of staroffice, which sun now offer support for?

David

suba

StarOffice version 5.2 was a free download but not anymore coz they got version 6.0 out which is a pay version.

i got version 5.2 for both windows and linux somewhere. drop me an email if you need it.

David_Wallis

Cheers, but Ive got ver 6 Eval... Only thing is the range's dont seem to work... Can someone try opening the worldcup excel spreadsheet in staroffice and tell me why it doesnt work??

David