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.
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