I also recall seeing that > 32% of MS Office sales are *not* from OEMs.
Even Be, Inc., despite winning their lawsuit, wasn't able to break the MS
death grip on the OEMs, but that non-OEM 32% is potentially able to go to
OOo, as long as they're not locked into some MS only server side service.
On Sat, 22 Oct 2005, Ian Lynch wrote:
Then look at the market research rather than personal impressions. Most
of the reputable research seems to indicate that MSO 2003 is a small
proportion of the overall office installed base.
[snip]
The figures I seem to recall where less than 15% of MS Office users,
though I can't recall if it was Gartner, IDC or some other source.
Apparently the new user interface in MSO is really changed around. That
will create hassle and does kill the claim that users are already familiar
with the program.
It also seems to be consensus that the small changes that the user will
see daily aren't really worth the money and time of changing to the new
versions of MS Office:
http://pcworld.about.com/magazine/2110p129id112030.htm
On the back end, some IT maintenance staff relish the idea of getting paid
overtime to mess with every new version out of Redmond. However, the new
versions of MSO have many ties to various server based services like MS
ActiveDirectory and digital restrictions management. That's a level of
complexity that some departments are unlikely to deal with volutarily.
That also introduces the problem of single point of failure at least
twice: the connection to the server and the service on the server.
-Lars
Lars Nooden ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog ...
... until you start barking.
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