On Jeu 19 mai 2005 4:01, Daniel Carrera a �crit : > Chad Smith wrote: >> that's not what I said. I didn't say that MS would never use OOo. >> What I said was the only major companies that *do* use OpenOffice.org >> are in direct competition with Microsoft. (at least the only ones >> that people talk about.) > > There are a lot of large corporations that use OOo. The Sao Paulo subway > system and China's largest bank (whose name I forget) come to mind. > Chad, please keep in mind that when large corporations use OOo, they > don't generaly advertise it. What you have observed simply shows that > the only large corporations with an interest in advertising an OOo > migration are those who compete with MS. But that's hardly surprising.
I'll add this : 1. large corps can switch to OO.o because they have inhouse IT expert groups that do all the support needed on the solutions they chose. They can tell MS to go to hell just like they can ask it good prices (else...). They're big enough people worry about compatibility with them, not the other way around. 2. as soon as they switch the clock start ticking for all the smaller businesses that depend on bigcorp customer for their living (yes that's the same ones that tell us today thay can't switch because of compatibility problems) It's not a linear process, more like an avalanche. The question is not if the mountainside is moving now but if the peeble at the top of the montain is looking like it's about to drop. I'll add the only orgs higher in the IT food chain than bigcorps are state services, and they are clearly moving to OO.o outside of the US. -- Nicolas Mailhot --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
