bjgrant

I understand - felt the same but since have researched and found it will save many dollars to buy out our CALs and a few MS Office licenses that might be critical (MS Access still required in some places as it is not fully supplanted by Open Office Base as yet.) I am pretty sure your MIS could report via Open Office though. Good luck either way. The hard part for me is getting the users to embrace the changes without a revolt and lynching of the IT director. bg

Just a thought - we have been using MSSA for many years (4500 users) and are now moving away from that model. Open Office supplants MS Office nicely for free and I have yet to see any real motivation for moving from XP Pro OS to Windows 7. Mail client is changing to Thunderbird from Outlook and Scribus is nice FOSS substitute for MS Publisher if required.