On Mar 6, 2009, at 11:22 AM, MB Software Solutions General Account
wrote:
> On a serious note though, if MonkeyBoy Ballmer called you and said
> "Paul,
> you open-source, bleeding liberal, socialistic SOB (...well, maybe he
> wouldn't say that part), what do you suggest we do in our sales
> strategies? Paul, we can't just give it away...how would we make our
> money?"
Provide true value to customers, where people *want* to buy your
products. The reason Word and Excel became such important products is
that they made life easier for their users, and that was worth paying
money for.
How does Vista or XP or Win7 make your life easier than the previous
version? How about the latest Office versus the previous Office? Is it
worth the cost? Or do you feel compelled to pay for the upgrade
because the old version will be rendered incompatible or insecure?
-- Ed Leafe
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