Re:IBM forcing all employees to stop using MS Office
by jlgosse on Friday September 18, 2009 @01:40PM
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They've already started giving new hires and co-ops Lotus Symphony over Microsoft Office. The good thing about Symphony over other options is the tight integration with collaboration tools (TeamRoom, Jazz) and email (Notes).
That being said, if there's a customer with an issue, or a new grad looking for a job, and they use Word as their default word processor, then there's always Microsoft's Word Viewer which lets employees view Word files.
In my opinion, people need to stop making such a big deal out of this. From what I've seen, no one is really upset about the change, and it's definitely saving the company a lot of money. So if employees don't care, and shareholders are happy, why does it matter?
That being said, if there's a customer with an issue, or a new grad looking for a job, and they use Word as their default word processor, then there's always Microsoft's Word Viewer which lets employees view Word files.
In my opinion, people need to stop making such a big deal out of this. From what I've seen, no one is really upset about the change, and it's definitely saving the company a lot of money. So if employees don't care, and shareholders are happy, why does it matter?