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links for 2006-04-12

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  1. on April 15, 2006 at 6:30 pm keithcu wrote:

     What features are missing from OpenOffice in your mind? For everyone in my family at least, I believe OO is good enough. I put it on my Dad’s computer and he’s been fine with it for several months…

  2. on April 15, 2006 at 7:12 pm Balaji wrote:

     Hi Keith!

     First up – that was a very nice article . While I’d agree with you that OO is sufficient for most home users, I think in a corporate environment MS-Office has some significant advantages:

     1. MS Excel and its BI functionality: A lot of corporate MIS runs on Excel. Once these corporate automate thier MIS using MS-SQL Server BI, its a cinch to move the manual MIS in Excel to plug directly into to the BI platform.

     2. Tight integration: Mixing content from Word,Excel into Powerpoint is a cinch. The entire presentation application in OO is a bit weak and this integration isn’t so obvious.

     3. Versioning and Workflow: If you are running a MS-Exchange environment, users can easily send documents off for approval with a workflow built in and be assured that all changes are tracked. Sharepoint takes this a notch higher by putting everything on a website.

     4. Presentation: Powerpoint is a wonderful presentation application – OO still has a way to go on this.

     The inertia of working with MS-Office tends to cause people to buy (and let’s face it – pirate) the same for use at home as well.

     What do you think?

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