On Dec 11, 2007 5:25 AM, Charlie Coleman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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. >
I did that as well and the macros from the home office did not function properly. The printing was a disaster for the forms for a prospective client to use. I was surprised to be honest with you. > 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. Now your very well spoken for the ABMS side of the coin. I have only said at this point we should allow everyone to the table. All you want to do is scratch the winblows only tools. Considering that we have no idea what this thing is intended to do we all have MEGA opinions, don't we? :) __Stephen --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ 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.
