On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 18:22 -0600, Alexandro Colorado wrote: > They’re done by multiple people working on a project at once. Essentially, > Open Office is fine if you have very limited needs because it was really > designed around what Microsoft Office products were designed around 10 > years ago.” > > So can we have some examples please? > > “The Microsoft Office product line has gone way beyond that to serve > multiple constituencies. We have a home and student version. We have small > business versions. We have multiple enterprise versions. It has gone on to > encompass working with quite a bit of server software to encompass the > real challenges that businesses have today.”
Sounds like classic disruptive technology stuff. OOo comes along and is lower cost and good enough for most people. People with modest needs adopt it and as the technology improves it fits more people#s needs moving up the user pyramid. MSO gets pushed further up into niche markets where high degrees of integration are necessary. So all I would say is that anyone describing this process is just confirming the long term demise of MSO :-) Tell this guy to go read Clay Christensen's books and get himself educated - maybe they might sell him a discounted student edition :-) -- Ian Lynch www.theINGOTs.org www.opendocumentfellowship.org www.schoolforge.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
