Surrender in open-source war ---------------------------- "After being invited by Veterans' Affairs to do a feasibility and definition study of the proposed migration to OpenOffice.org, Single Point submitted a quote for $697,000 to migrate 75 Citrix-based machines to OpenOffice, as well as a set-up program that included migrating many Microsoft-based macros to a format that could be read by the open-source applications." ... "We came up with a number ($697,000) that they found acceptable, and we then found that Microsoft had come back very, very aggressively," he said." ... "The Microsoft bid is understood to have priced Office 2003 licences close to $250 per seat, compared with its $850 retail price."
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