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The thing that everyone knows these days is Google Docs, not Office.
Only in a very small, insular bubble.
Most other startups I know use GSuite.
Ask HN: Has anyone successfully used LibreOffice for their business?
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Re: Ask HN: Has anyone successfully used LibreOffice for their business?
#132Definitely. I used it, LibreOffice of course, exclsively in many businesses, including rolled it out to a business with 150 staff migrated from ms office to LO. No issues at all.
Did you have to do much collaborative editing?
Re: Ask HN: Has anyone successfully used LibreOffice for their business?
#133Have a look at the plans of Schleswig-Holstein, a federal state of Germany. The want to switch 25.000 PCs to LibreOffice and Linux from Windows/MS Office. Details here: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/11/18/german-s...
Hopefully they'll have better luck than Munich: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/end-of-an-open-source-e...
That was a political decision and a farce, and they're already going back to Limux:
https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-not-windows-why-munich-i...
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#136If you want to, you can probably pull it off. Personally I would choose an office suite that has better UX, live collaborative editing and a native integration to cloud storage. But if you want to run LO it’s most probably possible.
Re: Ask HN: Has anyone successfully used LibreOffice for their business?
#137there's FreeOffice - https://www.freeoffice.com/en/ . not exactly open source, but it's free :)
Re: Ask HN: Has anyone successfully used LibreOffice for their business?
#138I have. Been using OpenOffice.org / LibreOffice since 2005, started business in 2007, never ever had a copy of MS office. I LAUGH at silly FUD like "you can't run a business without MSOffice", "You can't read documents ", "format compatibility problems!!", because that all is just FUD. If I ever (rarely, maybe 4 times total) receive a price file or spec that is unreadable by LibreOffice, I just ask to resend it to me…
> I LAUGH at silly FUD like "you can't run a business without MSOffice", "You can't read documents ", "format compatibility problems!!", because that all is just FUD. Not really a FUD if you're dealing with Excel spreadsheets from other companies, especially those that uses integrations with Excel. However PowerPoint/Present compat is a hit-or-miss bother but not world-shuttering like with Excel though, and Word comp…
If you are disproving wide claims like "you can't run a business without MSOffice", even one contrary example is enough to make the claim invalid. Of course, I can imagine some scenarios where compatibility with a proprietary format world impede business processes, but I think that for a vast majority of businessess it is a non-issue.
Regarding the presentation format, the One True Format is PDF.
Re: Ask HN: Has anyone successfully used LibreOffice for their business?
#139My town's entire core infrastructure runs FOSS only. Schools, accounting, administration etc. We spend a lot of time training and answering queries, especially for non-technical people but it somehow works. The key is to have skilled people available to help out and good internal documentation
Re: Ask HN: Has anyone successfully used LibreOffice for their business?
#140Earlier quoted context omitted.
The thing that everyone knows these days is Google Docs, not Office.
Only in a very small, insular bubble.
I don't know a single person in the company I work for that use MS Office or has done the last three or so years.
Supposedly you can get a license if you need it, but I don't know anyone who need it or even complain about it.
Everything goes in Confluence (or.md files in repos) or something similar these days, doesn't it?