On Ven 22 avril 2005 8:03, Christian Einfeldt a �crit : > Hi Bill, > > I have read your post with great interest. More comments in line... > > On Monday 18 April 2005 17:57, Bill Wilken wrote: > >> I do believe, however, that the sponsors of OpenOffice would do >> well to remember how Microsoft succeeded in displacing >> WordPerfect as the market leader in word processing. Among other >> things, they made certain that users could import complex >> WordPerfect documents into Word with very little disruption in >> formatting. > > The competition of OpenOffice.org (OOo) versus Microsoft Office > (MSO) is quite different from the competition between Word and > WordPerfect (WP).
If I remember well the WP people were so proud of their work they made the mistake of having their salespeople circulate a document showcasing the WP features word could not do at the time. All MS had to do was to get its hands on the document, take it appart, and make bloody sure it imported flawlessly in the next word version. Unlike WP MS is not competing on featureset or quality so I doubt oo.o will be ever able to use this trick. -- Nicolas Mailhot --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
