On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 7:53 PM, Mike Scott <[email protected]>wrote:
> On 13/10/2010 23:41, NoOp wrote: > ..... > > That said; converting near 20,000 systems over to OOo requires more than >> $$ and understandably is a very difficult task. To do it in a school >> district would be considerably harder than in a corporate environment; >> you have parents, students, teachers, admin, state& local government - >> who often run antiquated programs/macros, etc. Perhaps if Sun >> Microsystems/Oracle would have put a dedicated team in to assist the >> story may have been different... >> > > You know, that reminded me of when I left university and took up my first > job. It was /perfectly/ clear to me that the interactive editor (necessarily > a primitive beast in those days) at work was /vastly/ inferior to the one > I'd been using at uni'. Of course, it wasn't - it was just very different, > and even - as I found out - had certain relative merits. But it took time to > learn. > > As my boss pointed out, "what you know is always the best"; well, I guess > we can see what he meant, and it's valid now as then. > > So the more who can be persuaded to use a zero-cost solution /at home/, the > more pressure on commercial organizations to use what's "known" as the > lower-training-cost solution. And 'free' trumps even an 80% discount on > Office :-) > > But I guess we knew that anyway. > I think this commentary is more accurate as to why the video exists: http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2010/10/microsoft-gives-its-blessing-to-openofficeorg/index.htm?cmpid=sbslashdotschapman FUD... /paul > > -- > Mike Scott > Harlow, Essex, England > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
