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Tuesday, December 18th, 2007798 Part V . SUSE Linux in the Enterprise There is also a growing realization that getting locked in to the next versions of the Microsoft Office file formats might not be what everybody wants. In August 2005 the Commonwealth of Massachusetts announced that state agencies must adopt applications capable of supporting the OpenDocument file formats by January 1, 2007. It will be interesting to see whether Microsoft responds to this type of move by offering support for these formats in Microsoft Office, or whether this leads to file format wars in which the ultimate winner might be OpenOffice.org. The fact that OpenOffice.org is cross-platform software and runs on Windows as well as Linux means that migration to a fully open source desktop can be done in stages: first moving to OpenOffice.org on Windows and then changing the underlying operating system. This was the method adopted internally at Novell, with great success. The Technical Background Most of the pieces of the puzzle required for Linux to take its place on the desktops in large organizations are in place; indeed they have been for some time now. The majority of users in the majority of organizations use their computers for a relatively limited range of functions, almost entirely confined to email, web browsing, word processing, and spreadsheets. Native Linux applications for all these are available and equivalent in functionality to the Microsoft equivalents. . There is a very capable email client in Evolution, which has a look and feel similar to Microsoft Outlook. Evolution is able to connect to Microsoft Exchange mail servers, an essential capability for a desktop mail client in many large enterprises during the period of transition. . There is OpenOffice.org, which in its 1.1.x versions is able to read and write to Microsoft Office file formats with a high degree of fidelity in terms of formatting. (Version 2.0, which is in late beta at the time of this writing, is even further improved in terms of file format compatibility and supports the OASIS Open Document Format, which could become a standard for office-type file formats in the future.) . As web browsers, Firefox and Konqueror provide a better user experience and better security than Microsoft Internet Explorer. So for the core office functionality, Linux on the desktop has everything that it needs. The problems lie with the more unusual or stubborn applications.
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