{"id":143,"date":"2004-05-28T14:22:05","date_gmt":"2004-05-28T19:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=143"},"modified":"2005-08-07T03:28:09","modified_gmt":"2005-08-07T08:28:09","slug":"novells-novel-move-to-openofficeorg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2004\/05\/28\/novells-novel-move-to-openofficeorg","title":{"rendered":"Novell&#8217;s novel move to OpenOffice.org"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While it is a novel idea for Novell to migrate to OpenOffice.org, is the <a href=\"http:\/\/primates.ximian.com\/~miguel\/archive\/2004\/Mar-22.html\">end of the year<\/a> a more viable alternative than a <a href=\"http:\/\/insight.zdnet.co.uk\/software\/0,39020463,39152279,00.htm\">end-of-July 2004<\/a> dateline?<\/p>\n<p>Even up to this date, employees aren&#8217;t exactly convinced &#8211; OpenOffice.org might be installed, but that doesn&#8217;t necessarily mean its being used. Forcing it down throats is what&#8217;s happening. And OpenOffice.org still isn&#8217;t cutting it for an average person involved in dealing with external customers (unless they get a lot of migration assistance):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Writer is doing quite well, importing quite the number of Word documents without issues &#8211; however, certain data fields don&#8217;t show, watermarks don&#8217;t import properly, and for some reason, a document with the watermark created in about two revisions earlier, was still displayed. But most documents are fine, save for the weirder bullets issue.<\/li>\n<li>Calc&#8217;s importing of Excel documents are still hit-and-miss. Simple =SUMIF&#8217;s actually broke during the conversion. VBA macros obviously break.<\/li>\n<li>Impress imports PowerPoint presentations fairly well, but drawings like boxes do run quite the bit.<\/li>\n<li>The Document Converter AutoPilot seems to crash OOo 1.1.1 on machines with about 128MB of RAM in Windows when the document count was around 280 or so. I&#8217;ll be playing with this a lot more, I&#8217;m sure.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So as a check-list, Michael Meeks and team seem to be working on getting the VBA macro support in OOo &#8211; this is going to be very important for the migration to work. I don&#8217;t know what miracles we&#8217;re going to make on the import\/export of files &#8211; they have to &#8220;just work&#8221; (no, PDF&#8217;s for clients aren&#8217;t useful, when they have to work with you) &#8211; so that dealing with clients using the other Office suite, is not an issue. Calc needs to be further enhanced, definitely. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s interesting to note that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desktoplinux.com\/news\/NS6592380739.html\">a Florida health organisation<\/a> actually performed the migration for 3,500 PCs first, even before Novell did! Good beta testing ground, I&#8217;m wishing to hear more of their document migration issues, more than anything else. <\/p>\n<p>So <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linuxworld.com.au\/index.php?id=526044789&#038;eid=-50\">did they really start<\/a>? Not quite, but they&#8217;re breaking it down for the staff, and they&#8217;re getting their first take at OOo usage &#8211; for most, it seems to be similar, with workarounds for the common things to use. 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Its simply, a File -> Export, give it a filename, and select MediaWiki. Automatically, you have a .txt file, that you can paste directly into MediaWiki. There, an offline editor for MediaWiki! Sadly, this isn't as well integrated\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":803,"url":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/04\/27\/openofficeorg-and-odf-adoption-in-malaysia-thumbs-up","url_meta":{"origin":143,"position":1},"title":"OpenOffice.org and ODF adoption in Malaysia &#8211; thumbs up!","date":"27\/4\/2008","format":false,"excerpt":"In an interesting twist (interesting for Microsoft and their OOXML apologists), about a month ago, MAMPU, the Malaysian Administrative Modernisation and Management Planning Unit, decided that they were going to go OpenOffice.org and go ODF, and dump Microsoft Office by year-end 2008. 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