Jim Grisanzio wrote: >When I first got to Sun five years ago there was a fair amount of Office >files flying around here, but mostly from agencies, contractors, and >partners we worked with. A lot of us used to send 'em back and ask for >text. :) There's very little now, though. It's really mostly >StarOffice/OpenOffice these days.
One of the places that can really make an instant difference (in promoting StarOffice, and utimately Solaris) is Sun's legal department. Sir Scott can demand (& no exception allowed) what file format Sun's outside counsels use when they deal with Sun's lawyers. Sun's Legal Dept can use part of the money that it has budgeted to purchase Microsoft Office licenses to develop macros & templates that law offices need in order to switch from MSO to StarOffice. (With more than 1.25 million lawyers in the US alone, there is a potential of 3 million StarOffice/Solaris seats that can be easily realized.) Microsoft has been using its Windows-only Office suite to frustrate any attempt by businesses to switch into Linux (desktops). Ironically, Microsoft might have done Sun a great favor in preserving this market for later exploitation. StarOffice may become a potent weapon to trigger a sweeping migration into Solaris/OpenSolaris. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
