From: Brian Hall 

Dave Ings wrote:

> But when you have train x thousand office workers and the IT support staff
> on Office, you tend to look at the TCO of switching, versus the maintaining
> status quo, rather than the incremental licence cost. It's just another
> manifestation of the network effect.

The systems are similar enough that only really stupid people would require
much training to switch over. If they are that stupid, they shouldn't be
working there in the first place.

A word processor is a word processor. There is no rocket science involved
in using one. You type, format, save and print.

The major difference between spreadsheets is whether to use a colon or two
periods between the start of a range and the end of a range.

There is no way it can cost more to switch to OpenOffice than it does to
stay on Microsoft's upgrade path or deal with the hassle of supporting
multiple versions of Office.

Brian

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