OpenOffice 2.0 had been officially released for a few weeks now. My beta release was upgraded last week. Yesterday, I downloaded the simplified chinese version and installed on one of the company’s computer.
Someone should setup a OpenOffice mirror in China. Took me a long time to download the whole package. Also I noticed that there seems to be more Traditional Chinese than Simplifed Chinese content on OpenOffice.org website. With the readily available of cheap office suites, perhaps mainland is not as keen on an open source alternative.
Anyway, I am going to do my small part and introduce OpenOffice to my Chinese colleagues.
Word and Excel are too deeply entrenched even though they probably cannot distinguish Word from Writer. Suggestion of a change in application will very likely raise skeptism and subtle relunctance. So my plan of attack is from Impress, Draw or Base.
More report of the progress here. Stay tuned.
Update: More on using free softwares in business at Free Biz Ware.
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