On Wed, 23 Mar 2005, Christian Einfeldt wrote:
... Currently, Microsoft's solution is to try to buy the
market by lobbying (bribing) local officials, giving its software
to some libraries and schools, and offering package deals to
governments like Thailand.
But that is not a sustainable business
Hi Daniel,
Since Solaris has been open sourced, why switch to Linux? Just curious
really. is there a difference in support costs or something? Or are
there apps that run on Linux but not Solaris?
We need to replace these computers, and we want to go to x86 hardware
because it's cheaper. Since
On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 03:58 -0500, Lars D. Noodén wrote:
Also, remember that many IT departments have had the functional equivalent
of an MS sales team working on the inside since 5 or 6 years ago. So they
will be resisitant to other vendors / sources, but as Christian points out
with
On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 18:27, Chuck wrote:
Smoot Carl-Mitchell wrote:
On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 12:12 -0800, Christian Einfeldt wrote:
High School, in Portland, Oregon. IMHO, the day is only about 3
years away when people will wonder why they ever paid for an office
suite, just the way
Hi,
Sorry for not snipping, but I wanted to be able to preserve the full
context.
On Wednesday 23 March 2005 08:26, Chuck wrote:
Lars D. Noodén wrote:
OOo and OpenDocument both get a mention towards the middle of
the article:
Nigel McFarlane. Firefox explorers. The Age. 22 Mar
On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 16:50, Daniel Carrera wrote:
Chuck wrote:
I have OOo installed on my laptop and love it (don't tell my workstation
support group though or they'll remove it as unsupported software).
When I buy my new XP home PC this week, OOo will be installed and not MS
or Corel.
Ian Lynch wrote:
Since Solaris has been open sourced, why switch to Linux? Just curious
really. is there a difference in support costs or something? Or are
there apps that run on Linux but not Solaris?
We need to replace these computers, and we want to go to x86 hardware
because it's
Mensaje citado por Ian Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 16:50, Daniel Carrera wrote:
Chuck wrote:
I have OOo installed on my laptop and love it (don't tell my workstation
support group though or they'll remove it as unsupported software).
When I buy my new XP home PC
one responsible for corrupting a file that 20 other people are using and
have to explain why I was using OOo instead of Word or Excel to my boss.
From my experience OOo is likely to recover a document that can't be opened
in word anymore rather than corrupt it, especially version 2.
With
