[ale] Transition to OpenOffice / Dumb salespeople rant!!! OT

[Fulton Green]

So does OO's word proc (and/or other components) do auto-saves?

On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 03:03:22PM -0500, Keith Morris wrote:
> sorry, I just had to drop a quick note to blow off some steam.  I have 
> been pushing to move our company as open source as possible and have 
> been fairly successful.  Finally I convinced the boss to "beta test" 
> OpenOffice on some of our sales peoples machines (I have already 
> successfully moved all of the production machines to OO). So yesterday 
> one of our project managers installed OO on his and a sales persons 
> machine.  I hadn't even gotten a chance to go setup their options for them.
> 
> Well, I get a call earlier from one of the sales people saying... "I was 
> working on a document with 'that open office' that you have been 
> tracking...I had been working on it for about 2 hours...went to 
> lunch...came back and made some more changes then selected some text and 
> it crashed...it said it would try to recover the document, but it failed 
> and I lost everything.  So I'm dumping that thing and going back to Word 
> because I can't afford for that to happen."
> 
> To this I asked if he was saving the document all along and he said "No, 
>    I probably should have been, but I'm still dumping it."

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