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OpenOffice project 'all but dead upstream' argues prominent user

P. Lee

Re: That Weird Sound You Hear

>That threat should be enough to convince anyone to come off the MS drug, server by server, desktop by desktop.

Herein lies the problem. Whatever you think of their software, MS licensing dept knows what its doing in that its pretty much impossible to link a gradual reduction in use of MS software with increased savings. It's an all-or-nothing affair. With the network effect created by Excel, Sharepoint, Visio and Lync, MS costs are really hard to dislodge.

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