On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 06:10:45PM +0100, Malcolm wrote:
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There are more costs than just the initial purchase fee, though, all agree. Gartner puts the price of switching a Microsoft Office user to StarOffice a $1,200--costs that include factors such as retraining, lost productivity and the difficulties of translating StarOffice files to and from Microsoft formats.
I think Gartner must have a method similar to this for generating their figures: Think of a number, think of another number, find the product and then fantasize wildly & unreasonably. Total bunkum. Just how difficult is it to use SO instead of MO? My experience: not very. In fact I think the `gain' of no paper clip is probably equal to the `loss' of $1200.... Good to see Sun picking up the gauntlet though. <snip> They mention Suse & a few other Linux outfits shipping SO with their distros. Would this be 5.2 or 6.0? The article wasn't clear. -- Frank *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Boroughbridge. Tel: 01423 323019 --------- PGP keyID: 0xC0B341A3 *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* http://www.esperance-linux.co.uk/ I attribute my success to intelligence, guts, determination, honesty, ambition, and having enough money to buy people with those qualities.