LibreOffice 4.4 review – Finally, it rocks

Re:LibreOffice 4.4 review – Finally, it rocks by jenscow on Tuesday February 17, 2015 @05:59PM (#9065750)

I don't disagree.

But most of it boils down to MS Office was there first (and made by the same company as the OS).

Each of your bullet points assumes a migration from Office to LO, and that there isn't already an infrastructure that supports it.

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Re:LibreOffice 4.4 review – Finally, it rocks by scholia on Tuesday February 17, 2015 @06:27PM (#9065904)

Not really first. Lotus 1-2-3 and WordPerfect were already entrenched in businesses, and there were rival office systems for Windows from IBM and Novell. Microsoft Office won by being better and cheaper, but it took a very long time to displace 1-2-3 in particular.

hackuser's points about the cost of labor and the enormous potential cost of mistakes are very well made. If you are paying knowledge workers $50,000 to $150,000 a year, then saving pennies on the cost of Office is not a smart move. When mistakes can cost your company a lot more than that, even more so....

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Re:LibreOffice 4.4 review – Finally, it rocks by jenscow on Tuesday February 17, 2015 @06:48PM (#9066018)

> Not really first

But they weren't made by the same company as the OS was.

And I do agree that moving away from MS Office would be very foolish, if money saving is the reason behind it.

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