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Has anyone here successfully migrated a large organization from MSFT to Libre? How was user adoption and feedback? Any specific issues to report when collaborat

by owly 5y ago

Has anyone here successfully migrated a large organization from MSFT to Libre? How was user adoption and feedback? Any specific issues to report when collaborating with external organizations using MSFT?

ChuckNorris89 5y ago
I saw the hospital in my hometown be fully on libre, although on Windows 10.
commoner 5y ago
There are a ton of case studies listed in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument_adoption https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument_adoption that might be useful.
- owly 5y ago
  Thanks all!
xcambar 5y ago
My current employer is a juggernaut (10k+ employees worldwide). I've had that discussion, and among answers I've received, the most prominent were: * compatibility with external docs (incoming) and external systems (outgoing) * the whole Office365 suite provides sharing out of the box * preexisting knowledge of the Office suite * Excel is just better It looks like the most unfair advantage of Office is that it is already everywhere.
- 2Gkashmiri 5y ago
  I often had compatibility bugs with excel files around 2-3 years ago. What would happen is, I see a visual bug for example and the next update often fixed it. For the last year or so I have switched completely to LO which has been a little rough but not difficult. Calc has native =regex which is a killer feature
  - fartcannon 5y ago
    And you can script it with python.. which is just incredible.
    - buovjaga 5y ago
      Docs for getting started with Python, in case someone is interested: https://help.libreoffice.org/7.2/en-US/text/sbasic/python/main0000.html?&DbPAR=BASIC&System=UNIX https://help.libreoffice.org/7.2/en-US/text/sbasic/python/ma... https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Macros/Python_Guide https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Macros/Python_Guide The macro team has really been killing it on the docs front as well: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/04/28/libreoffice-macro-team-progress-report-3/ https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/04/28/libreoff... LibreOffice 7.2 now offers the new ScriptForge library for Python: https://help.libreoffice.org/7.2/en-US/text/sbasic/shared/03/sf_intro.html?DbPAR=BASIC#bm_id41582391760114 https://help.libreoffice.org/7.2/en-US/text/sbasic/shared/03... https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/7.2#The_ScriptForge_libraries https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/7.2#The_Scr...
buovjaga 5y ago
You might also enjoy this collection of deployments: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/LibreOffice_Migrations https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/LibreOffice_Migrations

by owly 5y ago

ChuckNorris89 5y ago

I saw the hospital in my hometown be fully on libre, although on Windows 10.

commoner 5y ago

There are a ton of case studies listed in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument_adoption https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument_adoption that might be useful.

owly 5y ago
Thanks all!

xcambar 5y ago

My current employer is a juggernaut (10k+ employees worldwide). I've had that discussion, and among answers I've received, the most prominent were: * compatibility with external docs (incoming) and external systems (outgoing) * the whole Office365 suite provides sharing out of the box * preexisting knowledge of the Office suite * Excel is just better It looks like the most unfair advantage of Office is that it is already everywhere.

2Gkashmiri 5y ago
I often had compatibility bugs with excel files around 2-3 years ago. What would happen is, I see a visual bug for example and the next update often fixed it. For the last year or so I have switched completely to LO which has been a little rough but not difficult. Calc has native =regex which is a killer feature
- fartcannon 5y ago
  And you can script it with python.. which is just incredible.
  - buovjaga 5y ago
    Docs for getting started with Python, in case someone is interested: https://help.libreoffice.org/7.2/en-US/text/sbasic/python/main0000.html?&DbPAR=BASIC&System=UNIX https://help.libreoffice.org/7.2/en-US/text/sbasic/python/ma... https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Macros/Python_Guide https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Macros/Python_Guide The macro team has really been killing it on the docs front as well: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/04/28/libreoffice-macro-team-progress-report-3/ https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/04/28/libreoff... LibreOffice 7.2 now offers the new ScriptForge library for Python: https://help.libreoffice.org/7.2/en-US/text/sbasic/shared/03/sf_intro.html?DbPAR=BASIC#bm_id41582391760114 https://help.libreoffice.org/7.2/en-US/text/sbasic/shared/03... https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/7.2#The_ScriptForge_libraries https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/7.2#The_Scr...

buovjaga 5y ago

You might also enjoy this collection of deployments: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/LibreOffice_Migrations https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/LibreOffice_Migrations