Easing migration with the OpenOffice.org menu and toolbar configuration tools
One of my blog readers reports that, when he migrated his organization to OpenOffice.org, he didn't even tell the users that they were switching to a different office suite. He just said that there was going to be a big upgrade. Then, he and his migration cohorts modified the OpenOffice.org menus and toolbars to resemble the Microsoft Office layout and phrasing as much as possible (without violating copyright, of course) and gave that configured version to the users. He reports very few problems with the migration.
I love that story. Is the biggest problem with change simply that it is change? If you think that you're using a drastically upgraded version of Microsoft Office, will you be as upset by changed features and minor formatting problems between documents?
It's an interesting idea, at least. Obviously, awareness of change is not the only issue at hand. OpenOffice.org and Microsoft Office are definitely different, and a switch does require some relearning. But it does beg the question: how much of the difficulty in migrating to OpenOffice.org, both real and imagined, can be reduced by simply using the extensive configuration tools at our disposal to make OpenOffice.org look like Microsoft Office?
And why stop there?
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