Quit playing dumb already!

Post #123,497 by Arkadiy 10/30/03 5:25:36 PM Reply	Quit playing dumb already! The costs you're disputiing are the costs of replacing MS with non-MS office solution. You keep imagining that those are costs of upgrade to new version of MS Office. NOOOO. Those are money to pay if they decide to change, say, to Open Office. Because the cost is so high, they are willing to invest in new hardware. And get rid of Novell. Even though getting rid of Novell would mean accuiring a few helicopters to ferry windows administartors around. Comparing to the cost of keeping Novell (and abandoning Microsoft) this is peanuts. And yes, you are right: the only illegal part of this picture is MS refusing to sell upgrade unless Novell is out. -- The rich, as usual, are employing the elected. -- [link\|http://unfit2print.blogspot.com/\|http://unfit2print.blogspot.com/]
Post #123,544 by deSitter 10/31/03 2:42:32 AM Reply	Re: Quit playing dumb already! You guys are missing the point. The needs of business could be met with Windows 3.1 Write, Notepad, perhaps PowerPoint from Office 4.3, and for the true power user, Access 2.0. I've still only experienced a single case of a person using Word to anything like its capability - and that was in 1994. The office tools that come with, say SuSE 8.2, are more than sufficient for any business need. There would be no cost for retraining - file/open/save/print/forward etc. etc. -drl
Post #123,549 by kmself 10/31/03 5:14:48 AM Reply	Capabilities In one of the follow-on documents, apparently Win98 didn't "support" the e-procurement apps BP was considering. How the fsck they failed support isn't particularly clear. But that still only covers the desktop. No need to toss Novell. Though that's clearly what happened. --\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 #123,555 by Arkadiy 10/31/03 9:22:22 AM Reply	Much as I would like to agree with you, I do have to use Word 97 at least to do my documents. Things like outline mode and diagrams really help. And for sending things up for reviews, change highlighting is very valuable. Write for Windows 3.1 meets the needs of business users like a spear meets the need of a hunter: it's possible to kill a boar, but boy, it's not pretty. -- The rich, as usual, are employing the elected. -- [link\|http://unfit2print.blogspot.com/\|http://unfit2print.blogspot.com/]
Post #123,567 by deSitter 10/31/03 10:54:40 AM Reply	well exCUUUSE ME! OK, OK, Word 97! I'll cop to that upgrade! -drl

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