Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 1st Oct 2004 00:16 UTC
A senior IT executive at a major pharmaceutical company summed up the challenge for Linux at the ZDNet UK IT Priorities conference when he asked one simple question: what are the benefits in migrating from Microsoft to Linux at the desktop?
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"1)Office Suite. Any will do the job."
It sure will. Right up to the point where you are being sent a large volume of files in non-supported formats. Then the whole idea falls apart.
All of the office suite create documents well, the interchange between those same suites is another matter. You can generate docs in XML, PDF, and RTF, and do these exchanges. Someone planning to tell your best customer in Chicago to follow these formats?
You can't dictate the format of the documents and files you recieve from your customers. Unfortunate as it may seem Microsoft applications largely dictate the formats used by business at present. There are exceptions to everything, but Word sets on most business desktops.