On Tuesday 07 March 2006 16:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In the same spirit, I hope you won't take offense as I dissect your
Not arguing with you (yet :- ), just a thought. For some reason, and it might be my kmail client, all your replies are replies to your previous posts or appear that way. I almost missed this one because of the way it shows up in the threads. Is it my kmail? Just need to know. Its just weirded out on my end I suppose. BTW: You DO have some good points, and those things I didn't fill in. (trying to just argue the OOo or other suite side). However, I argue the 2 year thing. We refresh PCs every 3 to 4 years, and servers every 5 now. This means that purchasing decisions have to focus around that. Now, in 2 years MS is going to say, "you HAVE to upgrade" for some reason or another. However in 2 years, OOo vendors are not. Now OOo itself may have gone through 2 versions, but I do not have to upgrade until I refresh the PC to support the upgrade in 3. That's one of those things that slides in. And your thoughts on the vendors. I'll give you that, but nearly always there are work-a-rounds. You could, for example have a few who maintain a copy of MSOffice (if even needed) for this purpose, or use pdf to exchange docs, or even RTF for editable docs. The Macros, are a different story, and I hope I did mention they would cause trouble if you rely on them heavily, if not, my bad. Of course, with IBM saying, we're going OOo (if indeed they do, and have announced it, I haven't researched that yet) the landscape might change some. They are a vendor big enough to cause other vendors to look that way. You had some good arguments, and I think if we combine it all we'll see that what really winds up happening is the exec responsible with the decision weighs the parts we leave out. 1. Easy. 2. Popular. 3. safe. If its easy, is it popular? If its not popular is it safe? If its not easy is it still popular? If its not easy, and not popular forget it. If its not easy, but popular it can default to safe so attempt it. If its easy but not popular it could default to not safe, try not to try it. (safe meaning job security). :-D. In all seriousness I think somewhere someone at a key position is waiting for something outside either app to swing the tide. I think Large companies, such as IBM, and governmental agencies, will be the something. But, that's just me. -- See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. John 3:16! Christian Books On-Line http://risenbooks.com http://home.comcast.net/~dhcolesj --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
