Given that MS has anywhere between 80 - 95% market share in this segment I very much doubt it is as dire a situation as you portray
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Anon Y Mous <[email protected]> wrote: > > For a monolithic organisation with 8000 staff and over 30,000 users > change happens > > much slower than you or I would like - especially something as radical as > switching > > the core office productivity suite. > > Heh, I bet some time in the distant future though, when King Larry decrees > that you'll have to "upgrade" to the free and open-source Oracle Open Office > suite (Ooo) or pay an extra 10 pints of blood per CPU core in Oracle > database licensing fees, your monolithic organization with 8000 staff and > 30,000 users will drop Microsoft Office 2007 pretty fast ;-) > > IBM's "Lotus Symphony" office suite, is, I think also based on the > OpenOffice code base as well, so Micro$oft's Office monopoly is going to be > in a world of hurt with Oracle / Sun, IBM and the entire Linux / UNIX / BSD > / (insert name of FOSS operating system here) community descending upon them > to rip them apart. > -- > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > [email protected] >
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