Let me ask you a question: are you REALLY in need of a complete office? For standard correspondence I would like to suggest another solution: taking it all web based.
The benefits:
- even the most incompetent users can't break anything (lowers support and helpdesk costs)
- look and feel of the environment is very similar to MS or Open Office
- and those who are really in need can have an MS-Office, or an Open Office (lowers costs for licencing)
- all correspondence of your organisationcan be automatically saved to your CRM which shortens support processes for incoming customer calls and inquiries because all data is centrally available from any workstation (can even be used in extranet environments)
- you won't miss out on any comfort because all which is needed by about 90% of the people who have office installed use it to type up letters and other correspondence and don't use the rest (neither on open office nor on MS Office)
- no viruses in macros or other bad-ware which can be transported inside word docs etc.and disable your organisation
- an MS mass-licence would cost about 4 million dollars
- development, testing, implementation and deployment of open office would not go below 250k dollars
- costs for support and new version implementation
- no more system downtime for deployment for new JREs and new versions thus no stuffing up the network
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