Costs up to 40% more . .

Post #122,458 by Andrew Grygus 10/22/03 11:46:59 PM Reply	Costs up to 40% more . . Can't put my finger on it at the moment, but I read somewhere (within the last 24 yours) comments by one of the market research firms saying Office 2003 would cost customers 20% to 40% more because many of its new features require purchasing additional Microsoft server products. [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]
Post #122,485 by kmself 10/23/03 6:35:21 AM Reply	Typical, though sneakier than usual MSFT usually hits its earlier adopters with higher prices. With time, they start cutting prices and, since they control supply, curtailing availability of earlier products (which of course compete against the new stuff). What's different here is that the costs are being hidden in additional server-side software and HW requirements. Expect to see this played out in the press, particularly Linux-friendly sites. \r\n\r\n The other issue of course is that people don't upgrade. It's not O2K3 that's going to be loaded onto existing systems, it's that new systems will have 02K3. The problem then are the network services necessitated, making a heterogenous network difficult. Which of course pushes corporate adoption back 12-24 months. \r\n\r\n If this script plays out as expected, I anticipate an announcement from IBM in the next 30-60 days that 02K3 is expressly not allowed on the corporate network due to security or interoperability problems with existing systems. Tensions with Sun make OOo or StarOffice adoption slightly problematic, though I'll suggest it's possible. And there's always the possibility that a wholesale migration to GNU/Linux will be announced. --\r\n Karsten M. Self [link\|mailto:kmself@ix.netcom.com\|kmself@ix.netcom.com]\r\n [link\|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/\|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/]\r\n What part of "gestalt" don't you understand?\r\n [link\|http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/\|TWikIWETHEY] -- an experiment in collective intelligence. Stupidity. Whatever.\r\n \r\n Keep software free. Oppose the CBDTPA. Kill S.2048 dead.\r\n[link\|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html\|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html]\r\n
Post #122,515 by bepatient 10/23/03 10:01:20 AM Reply	IIRC... the document control features, autopublishing and several of the "groupware" functions require MS server products to make them effective. There was a hint of that in the article. Lord knows I'll be forced to use this crap before long becasue of the inexplicable connection of our parent company to MS products. An affinity for Jerry Lewis and Bill Gates...it must be in the wine. If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. _{Fudd's First Law of Opposition} [link\|mailto:bepatient@aol.com\|BePatient]
Post #122,521 by Andrew Grygus 10/23/03 10:21:43 AM Reply	Yes, this is very true . . The digital rights management in particular is completely dependent on the 2003 rights server. An interesting point is that the rights server has to be exposed to the Internet or recipients of protected documents and emails will not be able to read them. Expect this to be a convenient entry point for more worms and exploits. The colaboration features also depend on Windows 2003 server and some "value add" server applications. I suspect they're building a structure so complex and intertwined it'll develop a reputation for disrupting business due to obscure "this behavior is by design" problems, outright failures and the inability of many organizations to administer it. Costs they will be arising. [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]

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