Microsoft about OpenOffice.org:
"Open Office. This is another incredible -- we compete all the time with good enough. Are we good enough. I get this question all the time. And, sure, we go through the different value propositions with document fidelity and productivity innovation and the ability for e-mail and if you use Outlook, there's no -- and security and all the different things that we have that they don't have. But I want to talk to you about what's really important. The real important opportunity is the SharePoint opportunity that comes with Office, it's the Exchange opportunity that comes with Office, and it's the BI opportunity that comes with Office.
Those dollars right there all add up to US$17.3 billion in partner opportunity. Embrace Office, embrace the stack. It's the fastest-growing stack we have in the history of our company, and it's a wonderful opportunity for you to build your business and bet your business on that. And Office is the foundation of our entire partner opportunity and our entire partner ecosystem. Continue to take a look at that and take the Open Office threat seriously."
Kevin Turner, Microsoft's Chief Operating Officer at Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2007
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