On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 00:17:51 AM -0500, Robert Derman
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> I know that this lack of a suitable Outlook replacement is the last
> major thing standing in the way of many Fortune 500 companies
> adopting OOo.
While do I agree that the current FLOSS alternatives are not really a
suitable Outlook replacement (**), THE reason #1 why "many Fortune 500
companies don't adopt OOo yet" is the simple fact that they still have
to keep, modify and exchange millions of legacy files in proprietary
MS Office formats. This is not going to change until governments
demand the usage of Opendocument for storage and in all transactions
between them and citizens or companies (something which has already
started to happen, by the way).
Another big reason why "many Fortune 500 companies don't adopt OOo
yet" is that they simply don't adopt any _specific_ software. They
simply buy "ICT services and solution" from third parties (HP, IBM,
EDS...), that is they lease pre-configured computers for a monthly fee
which includes system administration, updates and so on without caring
**at all** of what those computers run. As long as it opens their
pre-existing files, of course, macros and all. And the third parties
put Microsoft software because of a mix of the partnerships they have
with Microsoft and the simple reality of reason #1.
(**) I don't think OOo should provide such a replacement, but that's
not the point as the main reason to not use OOo in large organizations
is not Outlook.
Marco
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