[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A Microsoft Office purchase is almost certainly *statewide*. Converting
documents to OpenDocument is *department by department*.
What if they take the *statewide* $$ allocated for future purchases
of M$ Office and /give/ that to all the little departments to pay for
the transition?
Boy, you're new to politics, aren't you?
When a bucket of money appears *everyone* fights over it. I'm sure that
this is part of the issue, as well--"Either give *me* some of that money
or I'm going to fight you."
The worst part is that if MA can just stick to its guns long enough to
do the first round of OpenOffice conversions, Microsoft will magically
produce a version of Office that reads OpenDocument.
I think I read somewhere that lots of vendors were behind the push
for OpenDocument there. Taxachussets is known to have 2 of the
most liberal senators in Congress (E. Kennedy and J. Kerry).
If the non-M$ vendors cannot win in this little state, they
can't win anywhere.
They haven't lost; the battle continues.
Did you really think Microsoft was just going to concede?
MA is backing Microsoft into a corner. Microsoft is going to have to
balance the business costs of losing Massachusetts and having it shown
that there is life after Office versus the business costs of owning up
to having an ODF compatible Office.
Microsoft will do *anything* to avoid making that choice.
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