From: Mike '/m' 


I'm finding that the 20-somethings that we have been hiring are a lot more
flexible in this area.  They pick up anything very quickly.

Not everyone needs to switch to OpenOffice, just the companies and folk gor
whom it makes sense to do so.

Choice is nice.  Why is Microsoft so afraid of me having it?

 /m

On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 23:57:52 -0400, "Dave Ings"
 wrote:

>What you say may be true of individuals, or corporations who haven't already
>made Office their standard (which must be all of a couple of dozen world
>wide).
>
>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.
>
>My spouse is I think, more typical than not, of non-technical office workers
>(she is a bank manager). She looses patience in learning any new application
>after about 5 minutes of instruction. To her it's a total bore that gets in
>the way of her real job. Multiply her by a few thousand and you begin to see
>the real world impediments to switching any entrenched piece of corporate
>software.

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