A few years back, I had the opportunity to manage the Staroffice/Openoffice development team. During that period, the arguement Microsoft used to make on why not to switch was the cost of retraining. We heard numbers that would put fear, uncertainty, and doubt (the FUD factor) into the cost. What will be very interesting to watch is how they position Office 2007 with respect to retraining, relearning. Funny, that for many customers it may actually be much lower cost and lower risk to now switch to Openoffice (which is FREE) and is very easy to move over to if you already know MS Office pre 2007. And having surpassed 60 million downloads, users will be good company of other "switchers". It'll be nice to save a couple of hundred dollars too! I'll run out an get a couple of new iPod Shuffles!
Posted by Dawn Mular on February 01, 2007 at 03:08 PM PST #
Staroffice/Openoffice development team. During that per
Posted by runescape money on November 10, 2007 at 07:03 PM PST #
Love your comments on StarOffice and ReLearning.. Hmm perfect open source community when your application is compatible enough that retraining is not necessary, and your barrier to entry is lower, and yet more compelling eh? :D My husband started using OpenOffice and on our new computers, we have forgotten to even "turn on" Microsoft Office. Hasn't been necessary yet. Dawn http://blogs.sun.com/dmular_itil/
Posted by runescape money on November 10, 2007 at 07:04 PM PST #