At 02:28 PM 12/10/2007 -0600, Stephen Russell wrote: ... >You need to better target your audience on what they do and how they do it >today. Sure you could have dreams of linux running through your head but if >your doing work for accountants and they live and die Excel is it a >requirement to make this run on every OS or just an ego? ...
LOL! Spoken like a true MS-marketer. I've dropped Open Office Calc in front of an Excel-loving accountant and left him alone for a few days. When I checked back he said he didn't have any problems and thought OO would work just fine. Of course, the company is 'standardized' on MS Office, so that's what he's using. At work. About a week later he called me and said he put OO on all his home computers and won't pay another cent for MS Office ever again. I wonder how long it'll take his employer to wise up too. And ego? Good lord, the biggest ego's out there belong to the MS-heads who make statements like "... you have to consider what they're used to now...." or ".... MS has the biggest market share..." Like somehow, MS is critical to a company's business. How did things get so backwards? Company's that use software do not exist just to keep MS in business, they exist for their own profit. MS hurts that just about any way you slice it. Some companies are waking up to that fact. YMMV -Charlie _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
