RE: RE: MIcrosoft Blackmail

My issue is that you are among the "technological elite". First of all you are sophisticated enough to recognize that Microsoft isn't the only alternative. Second, you are competent to install an alternative solution and put up with any deficiencies. Everyone like yourselves could switch to OpenOffice and StarOffice and it wouldn't worry Bill a bit. Even if these suites are exactly like Microsoft Office in every respect.

   At the typical organization, Microsoft is the default solution and if you want to push an alternative to Microsoft Office, you have a battle on your hands and you will be blamed for any irritations, even where your alternative solution works exactly like Microsoft. People who hate computers, and there are many, aren't necessarily logical. I have a friend who is a network administrator at a small nonprofit and he quickly and wisely chose to abandon the Microsoft-alternative path.  <obligatory Oracle reference>

    Oracle sometimes gets the advantage of being the default database choice.

    I have heard that MS SQL tends to be looked down on as "cheap".  </obligatory Oracle reference>

I feel it is time to abandon this thread.

Dennis Williams
DBA
Lifetouch, Inc.
dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com

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[mailto:Scott.Shafer_at_dcpds.cpms.osd.mil] Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 5:23 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Then there's OpenOffice. Very nice. http://www.openoffice.org - I use it regularly and have had no problems.

Scott Shafer
San Antonio, TX
210.581.6217

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dgoulet_at_vicr.com [SMTP:dgoulet_at_vicr.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 4:28 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
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>
> Dennis,
>
> Actually migrating to StarOffice is pretty simple. We would have done
> so a
> year ago, but the mail package we're using would not budge. Damn Lotus.
>
> Dick Goulet
>
> ____________________Reply Separator____________________
> Author: DENNIS WILLIAMS <DWILLIAMS_at_LIFETOUCH.COM>
> Date: 9/26/2002 12:37 PM
>
> Yeah, I saw that one and thought "how hard can that be?". Just raise
> license
> fees again. What are corporations going to do? Switch to StarOffice? Do
> that
> and all the users will insist that they much have pure MS.
>
> Dennis Williams
> DBA
> Lifetouch, Inc.
> dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 1:57 PM
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>
> Speaking of R&D, what about the eWeek article about how M$ is going to
> pump
> $3,000,000,000.00 into MS Office? They want to achieve $20,000,000,000.00
> per year in revenue on MSOffice alone. Seems like they want to dominate
> the
> desktop with more that just the O/S and browser. Can't anyone slay this
> beast?
>
> It's an evil world in which we live...
>

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