[Am-info] Forced to use MS Office

[Sujal Shah]

On Sat, 2001-12-15 at 22:55, John Bryan wrote:
> I can relate.  I had to go to great lengths to explain to mgt why we 
> were using CVS on UNIX for our source code management instead of Visual 
> Source Safe 'like everybody else'.  Nevermind the fact that all the code 
> is written, compiled, maintained and run on UNIX, and there had *never* 
> been *any* sort of source management in that area before I downloaded 
> and installed CVS myself.  Since there didn't seem to be any version  of 
> VSS really available for Compaq TRU-64 (nee DEC Alpha) UNIX, I managed 
> to 'get away with it'.  sheesh.
> 

Not to mention the fact that VSS sucks so badly I can't even begin to
believe it.

It was a battle at my job too.  We're using CVS running on a Linux box. 
The biggest obstacle with CVS is that people object to the lack of a
good, well-tested GUI front end for it.  Not even well-tested... just
one that conforms to the "Microsoft Windows Way" of doing things.

Of course, my boss (CTO) is a huge Mac person (has a dual G4 on his desk
with the cinema flat screen display), and wouldn't care if I were
running Plan 9 on my desktop (I run a heavily modified installation of
RedHat, which also annoys the Windows folks).

Of course, as a result of these choices, more people are seeing my
technical concerns with MSFT software, and beginning to understand the
impact of the choices MSFT makes with their software.

Sujal

> JB
> 
> On Saturday, December 15, 2001, at 06:06  PM, Mark Hinds wrote:
> 
> >
> > For years I've been happily using an advanced wordprocessing tool
> > know as vee-eye (vi), even to do html. I use tgif for drawings.
> > http://bourbon.cs.umd.edu:8001/tgif/
> >
> > Owing to a recent merger my group has been COMPELLED to use MS
> > word to create SW design docs. Never mind that I can't run Word
> > on my linux work station. Never mind that it will take time to
> > get it running and cost money to pay for Windows and Office licenses.
> >
> > Why? Because the engineers we've been merged with run Windows
> > and have always used office for such tasks. I've tried all the
> > recent and old versions of StarOffice and WordPerfect, but none
> > of them render the drawings generated by word97/2000 correctly.
> > This directive comes from my new Engineering Manager. I'm really
> > not free to argue this point into the ground with him so here
> > I am stuck.
> >
> > So yes MS office is being Shoved down peoples throats.
> >
> 
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