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Summary

Early draft

This page lists the benefits for Small/Medium Enterprises (SMEs)

• Need to minimise costs - no licence fees to pay for installation or upgrade
• Cannot afford licence compliance issues / audits
• Useful for employees to be able to use at home
• MS-Office file comaptibility makes it easy to exchange documents with MS-Office users or use legacy MS-Office files
• Standard look and feel means it isn't necessary to retrain staff
• Ability to send documents via email as pdfs is useful
• Don’t want to be forced by vendors to upgrade
• OpenOffice.org is a mature, stable product, guaranteeing trouble-free operation
• Likely to be available in your language
• If full commercial support is required, the same software is awvailable as a commercial product