At 10:11 pm +1100 28/11/05, David Guest wrote:
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David Guest wrote:
The Lismore Bridge Club wanted to buy a copy of MS Office but my father
seems to have convinced them to go with OOo 2.0. He installs it tomorrow
so I'll see how they go.
I regret to inform the list that the Lismore Bridge Club has decided to
go with MS Office. They teach other people to play bridge so apparently
the qualify for the Academic version.
The club has several tens of thousands of dollars in their bank account
and few expenses. Apparently donating it to Microsoft was considered a
worthy cause.
David
More like training a staff member to use OOO was going to cost more
dollars or time than the cost of the academic edition of M$ Office.
The network externalities effects make unseating an incumbent a very
long-term project (years-decades).
As well as that, it is general human nature to desire to learn from
personal mistakes rather than the wisdom and experience of those that
have gone before. It's probably a power and control thing that dates
to teenagerdom.
BTW, here's an interesting "switch" story over several weeks from an
IT security consultant.
http://securityawareness.blogspot.com/2005/09/mad-as-hell-switching-to-mac-1-16.html
I am amazed how bad Windows XP is. No doubt, Longhorm will have a lot
of badness still bred into it, but that won't stop people forking out!
Ian.
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