On Thu, May 19, 2005 09:21:46 AM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot
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> 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.
Many large corps have outsorced IT to other large corps (Dell, HP...)
which lease them computers with MS Win + Office (bulk pricing, cheaper
IT drones widely available offshore for phone helpdesk...).
> They can tell MS to go to hell
They sure could, but they just *don't* want to think about I.T.. Just
pay it as little as possible (and licenses are one *small* fraction of
the cost for them), and do *not* risk to slow down business because of
it, unless absolutely forced. It's not "core business".
> 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.
Absolutely yes. As I've said many times here, that's where the
avalanche effect *must* and will start (when it hasn't already): if a
private corporation goes bankrupt or gives smaller dividends because
it sticks to proprietary SW is only its problem. But public money must
not be wasted, and above all public *data* must remain available
forever.
Ciao,
Marco
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Marco Fioretti mfioretti, at the server mclink.it
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The test of success in education...is not what a boy knows after
examination on leaving school but what he is doing ten years later.
Robert Baden Powell, founder of the Boy Scouts
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