It's not clear which end of the horse is coming to help in the Register's humourously titled article which highlights concerns raised by Microsoft partners at their conference in Europe about public sector losses to StarOffice.

Fortunately it's easy for those folks to compare for themselves by just looking at http://www.openoffice.org. I would think that the skills developed by a MS Office solutions provider could be readily extended to StarOffice or any other OpenOffice.org-based product, especially on Windows ;)