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Re: Life without MS Office

Not a technical reply, but I think you open a can of worms if a very small subset of employees get to call the shots on software in a corporate environment just because they don't *like* the company standard. Licensing, support, etc. becomes a nightmare.

Roger Harman
COMMON Certified Application Developer - ILE RPG on IBM i on Power


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From: PcTech <pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Jeff Crosby
Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2023 7:11 AM
To: PC Technical Discussion for IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries) Users <pctech@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [PCTECH] Life without MS Office

Another question - am I right that Office is ONLY available via
subscription?



On Wed, Jan 25, 2023 at 10:05 AM Daniel Moran <xdagarwynn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I'm an Office guy out of convenience - but I've never been able NOT to do
something similar in either of the two.
(I usually use LibreOffice on my Ubuntu instance).

If they really want it, why not make them buy out of their own pocket?
Not to make it sound cold, but it's a preference issue more than anything.
If they prefer it, why put that on the company's dime?

Respectfully,

Daniel S. Moran


On Wed, Jan 25, 2023 at 9:46 AM Jeff Crosby <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

We standardized on google apps in 2009. We also use LibreOffice and have
not purchased any MS Office licenses since. The latest Office we have is
2003.

We have a couple employees (one in particular) who whine about wanting MS
Office. Because they don't "like" something in one of the other options.
Or don't want to learn.

Any of you out there that get along without MS Office? Ever run into
something you can't do with either LibreOffice or google apps that Office
has?

Thanks.


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