Saving MS Office Users

Jeff Mings jeffm at lava.net
Tue Jun 26 13:25:49 PDT 2001


    One of this lists's goals is to help others find superior 
alternatives to proprietary software through Linux and other open-source 
or free-as-in-speech software.  If you'd like to save a company or 
organization a lot of future costs and headaches caused by MS Office, 
consider snipping the following text and forwarding it to them.
-Jeff Mings



    Business and department heads need to know about Microsoft's move to 
software subscription:  you will not like it.  If you're locked into MS 
Office, the day will come when you'll get a new PC, or someone will send 
you a Word file that you can't read, and you'll HAVE TO upgrade to MS 
Office XP or its successor.  When you do, you are likely to encounter 
problems as described in these articles: 
http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2779746,00.html?chkpt=zdhpnews02 
 and http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2766529,00.html .
If you're responsible for software expenditures, you should consider 
freeing yourself from the MS upgrade train.  The Department of Defense 
has freed itself and saved millions of licensing dollars  by moving to 
the free StarOffice as reported at: 
http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2779806,00.html  .



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