[Turbo Pig]

My company has been using OpenOffice as our primary Desktop Suite for over 6 months. as stated, legacy needs and the fact we have paid for so many MS Office licenses is the only reason MS Office is still around.

So far this year it has saved us about $120K. We do a lot of document generation, so combine that with the open source PDF distiller we implemented and out savings are closer to $140K

[lelio]

We do a lot of document generation, so combine that with the open source PDF distiller we implemented and out savings are closer to $140K

Check out Apache's Cocoon and Batik projects. Pretty interesting stuff. It changed my worldview (ack, that's an overused term) from document format centric (ie "This is a Word Doc" "This is an HTML page") to document data centric. The format's just an XSLT away.