ArrowQuick Solutions recently completed a small law office computer systems upgrade which moved their business from older computers and operating systems to new Intel Core2™ Duo Macintosh systems with complementary software. The following case study will explore the a couple of IT topics that are important in today’s business environments — cost effective Office suite alternatives and computer virtualization.
Life Law Office had been using WordPerfect and MS Office products to maintain compatibility with State of Iowa documents and other mainstream law firms. Over the last 8 years, most legal documents were prepared in MS Office, but many older documents continued to be in WordPerfect format. New computers installed at Life Law Office gave them a new software opportunity.
ArrowQuick Solutions tested and presented the Open Office as an alternative to MS Office as part of their computer systems upgrade. The new Macintosh computers run the OpenOffice product called NeoOffice which functions like the traditional MS Office suite, giving Life Law Office access to Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents. As an added bonus, NeoOffice open WordPerfect documents natively with no special translators. Printing labels and envelopes, inserting tables and formatting documents all function easily in NeoOffice.
The largest contributing factor to deciding on OpenOffice / NeoOffice is that it is free, open source software released under the GNU General Public License. In selecting NeoOffice, Life Law has saved almost $1,000 dollars in software licensing fees. Updates are free to the end user, but consumers of the software can contribute to the ongoing development with donations.
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