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

[Christopher Bergeron]

Salespeople by the very definition of their job will use what everyone else
does. Â As Star/Open office profilerate more they will begin to take notice.
 I use Staroffice (I love it!) and if a salesguy can't open my documents
or such, I leave it in their hands. Â It's up to _them_ to cater to my needs
if they want my sale. Â They'd end up getting Star Office just so they have
"both" if they'd have to in order to make a sale. Â They'll easily justify
it in their sales budgets (have you seen some sales budgets? Â Usually big
money - a $70 StarOffice won't break the bank). Â  I think it's just a matter
of time until your sales guys will be using it just because of "outside"
forces (like myself). Â 

:)

Heck, maybe even one of the ALE'rs can help by posing as a HUGE client and
INSISTING that they not use "BUGGY/VIRUS RIDDEN" MSFT products while working
with them. Â Don't recommend anything, but just DONT ACCEPT MSFT .DOCs. Â They'll
look around and WHOA! Â look what they'll want on their machines.

It's pretty sneaky; and not something I would do, but it might for someone;
somwhere. Â I do, however, take full credit for "thinking" sneakily(is that
a word?), however.

Cheers,
-CB



Fulton Green wrote:
<blockquote type="cite"
 cite="mid20021030151101.A5123 at greenie.frogspace.net">
  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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