On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 1:06 PM, Scott Granneman <[email protected]> wrote: >> As for reading and creating ODF files, OOo is just one of many >> options. If you can't open it with MS Office and can't install OOo, >> then go the cloud route with Google docs, which reads/writes ODF, MS >> Office, RTF, HTML, and text. So there really isn't a need for an ODF >> plug-in for MS Office. If Oracle can get away with charging $90 for >> it, good for them. If the plug-in dies a market death, no big loss. > > $90 seems quite excessive & greedy to me, so I hope it dies.
And maybe Oracle hopes so, too, which is why they priced it at $90. Or maybe Oracle discovered that Sun was paying licensing fees in excess of $90 a pop to MS and decided to pass those costs on. Unfortunately, we'll never know the "real" reason. But it doesn't really matter. > I don't think it will TOTALLY be in the cloud (but who knows?), but a > lot will definitely be there. Now we have the Internet, which we > didn't have before, & we're getting closer all the time to ubiquitous > access. Apple's recent deal with AT&T re: iPad 3G access is a > harbinger of that. As for control, close to 100% of my students have > their email in the cloud, & they could care less about control, > because they have something far more important to them: access. I have a hard time considering WashU students as a representative sampling of the general population. I'd think of them as more on the leading-edge of the curve. > In fact, WU is moving ALL students over to Microsoft's hosted email this > year (which sucks, but oh well). Remember the old adage that when > given a choice between security and convenience, people pick > convenience every time? When given a choice between control and > access, they pick access, almost every time. I agree. Cloud computing is like ATM cards about 20 years ago - present, but a rarity. Now? Almost ubiquitous. Although, there's still a good size of the population that still buys groceries and services with cash. Hang around the Customer Service counter at Schnuck's on a Friday afternoon to see what I mean. I guess it's something about feeling that big wad of paper in your hands. Regards, - Robert -- Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug
