On 7/30/07, Dinesh Joshi dinesh.a.joshi@gmail.com wrote:
- With average machines, it performs slow
It is slower than Office 2000 but definitely faster than Office XP.
- The documents it generates are not 100% compatible with Ms.Office
I'm yet to come across a .doc file Openoffice.org produced that MS word had a problem interpreting. There have been a couple of cases vice-versa, but not too many to be bothered about at all. I'm saying that confidently because my mother transacts about 25-30 word and excel documents with her clients daily.
Either ways, introduce him to PDF and he'll soon start circulating all his price sheets, etc in PDF -- PDFs look more official anyways ;)
Another problems that one generally faces is that Linux doesn't always work out of the box. When it does, it works wonderfully well but when it comes down to tweaking it to get it to work, its like performing a brain surgery ( for a newbie ).
This is probably one of the more tricky problems. He'll have to refer to (or maintain) a hardware compatibility list to make sure he sells only that hardware which installs without problems on Linux.
The other issue that people in India generally face is of bandwidth. Ubuntu installs well. It impresses them. But then it runs up HUGE bills downloading softwares.
I guess you pay for it one way or the other ;)