tompoe wrote:
On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Fred A. Miller wrote:
http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2700374,00.html
Fred: How does this mesh with the announcements from places like the German government agencies that have "kicked" the MS habit? The rumblings from our own government agencies that are interested in "secure" linux? I even recall something about AOL having big problems trying to worm their way into Europe? Sure doesn't seem like the world community will "buy" into this .NET stuff, does it? Just a thought, tom
Well, government agencies... There used to be a "standard" in one of our german federal states for word processing: Word Perfect (I guess). Since I say "I guess", you can guess what the de facto standard was. ;-( Last year, as I've been told, there was sort of assessment, to set the new standard. Alternetives were said to be taken in account. Guess what came out of that. The new standard is Office 2000. Not nessesarrily on Win 2K, but... The problem is not M$ as such, it is properitary formats for full functionality of products. With all that M$ properitary formats about, it is probably cheaper [with the next update in view] to keep that crap. This is called progress. I call it short sightness. I better stop now, anger starts boiling. Juergen -- =========================================== __ _ Juergen Braukmann juergen.braukmann@gmx.de| -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Tel: 0201-743648 dk4jb@db0qs.#nrw.deu.eu | /\\ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ===========================================_\_v __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\