A number of school districts and companies around the country are currently looking at buying the next version of Microsoft Office and a surprising number of school districts are starting to shift towards OpenOffice.org. However, there is not as much traction on the corporate side of the fence. So what does it mean to switch to OpenOffice? To me it’s all about training. OpenOffice is able to do almost everything that Office can do. It’s mature in the 3 release and it’s of course, open source and therefore doesn’t require you to purchase it. However, OpenOffice is a drastic change for some users. Sometimes features are in different places or…
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OpenOffice 3.0
OpenOffice.org, the increasingly popular Office-like productivity suite is finally native on the Mac with the latest releases, still in Release Candidate, although hopefully close to a stable full release. Since Sun has bought OpenOffice it’s been looming in the background as a potential Office killer. But OpenOffice has never taken that step. People seem leery about it, not wanting to retrain users, not trusting of a new, weird app. Understandably, most everyone on the planet seems pretty darn used to using Office at this point, and users don’t typically take well to change. The new document formats for Office, .docx (for Word), pptx (for Power Point) and .xlsx (for Excel)…