Ubuntu for Small Business

[John Richard Moser]

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HC Brugmans wrote:
> John Richard Moser wrote:
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>> My aunt just frantically put together a package of PrintMaster,
>> Microsoft Money, and Microsoft Windows to create a small management
>> computer for her franchise business.  I can't come up with an
>> open-source alternative to Money, although OpenOffice.org (for a skilled
>> user) can replace PrintMaster with work.
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>>  - OpenOffice.org (spread sheets, word documents, etc)
> 
> 
> I beg to differ. While I prefer OpenOffice even when I'm using windows,
> and have been using it on Ubuntu for the past year, OpenOffice is not
> ready to be used in an environment where someone needs to be productive
> and efficient.
> Especially in any business dealing with MS Office formats, which would
> be any business with outside contacts, essentially. Openoffice would at
> this moment still be woefully inadequate.
> As a business student 2 weeks into the trimester, OpenOffice2 alone had
> nearly driven me from ubuntu altogether.
> While the basics are there, you just can't have it crashing on random
> .doc, .ppt or most probably in this case .xls.

I've done word, power point, and excel spreadsheets in OpenOffice.org2,
viewing and creating.  I prefer the OpenDocument format, but people
don't send me opendoc stuff so I have to make due.

> Apart from that, it is slow, and a memory hog. Enough to bring most
> computers I see in small businesses to their knees.
> 
> -Hidde Brugmans.
> 
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