> You get open source programmers and give them a motivation, they might > come up with a contact/e-mail application.
They have--several, in fact. With a product like Outlook, where everyone has to be using the same tool to get the maximum value, it's just hard to build up the momentum for change. --Jekke -----Original Message----- From: John Meyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 3:05 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [users] Microsoft says Open Office.org 10 years behind Lars D. Noodén wrote: > On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [snip] >> One point that MS is constantly hammering home and the OSS community is >> looking away from, whistling as if it didn't exist, is "total cost of >> ownership" (TCO.) ... but if it takes 8 hours to retrain each employee > [snip] > MS really better be careful with this argument. A year or so ago, and OO didn't have a Database component. You get open source programmers and give them a motivation, they might come up with a contact/e-mail application. As far as retraining, are employees so dumb that they aren't going to find out how to print from oOO as opposed from MS Office? Or do a calculation in Calc as opposed to Excel? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
