On Wed, May 18, 2005 16:30:54 PM -0500, Steve Kopischke
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> I don't agree. I have seen organizations toss GroupWise and Lotus Notes
> out the door in favor of Microsoft Exchange in close to a hearbeat, in
> spite of Gigabytes of messages that got munged in the process because
> there was no clean way to migrate between the proprietary formats.
Note that you are talking of switching from a proprietary product to
another, which is also the one with still the greatest myths in its
favout (can't get fired for chosing microsoft, still true in many
corporations) and the greatest lobbying power around. Not sure how it
diminishes/disproves what I reported, or applies to it, really.
I could have added in my other post that we (same company) tossed out
in a hearthbeat 10/15 years worth of essential documentation in
FrameMaker format because "everybody is using MS Office, and it comes
with the computer..." because it did happen, but what would have it
demonstrated, as far as this discussion is concerned? Proprietary to
open source is a much, much bigger jump in the dark for corporations,
culture wise. Proprietary to proprietary is still seen much differently.
> Among those organizations is one of the Fortune 500 I worked
> for. The reason for the change? $$$$$ - not ease of use, features or
> anything else. If a company sees a fiscal advantage to switching to
> OOo, they'll go.
Same thing I said. My multinational told me with details that the move
didn't make any sense economically.
Ciao,
Marco
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Marco Fioretti mfioretti, at the server mclink.it
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The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one
wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering
if something could have materialized -- and never knowing. --
David Viscott
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