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[News] Microsoft Lockins Analysed, Government and Business Advised to Consider Linux

  • Subject: [News] Microsoft Lockins Analysed, Government and Business Advised to Consider Linux
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2007 03:58:57 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
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Open Source and Microsoft Free

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| For companies with huge budgets it might make sense to continue down the 
| Microsoft path. For small and medium sized companies with limited budgets, 
| startups, and educational or government funded operations, I believe they 
| should consider exploring alternatives. The worst thing that can happen with 
| a small pilot is that you discover that Linux won't work for your 
| organization. At least then you can sleep at night knowing you did your 
| homework and made a strategic decision based on real information. One word of 
| caution, though. If you take on a pilot, make sure you have a few people on 
| the team who are not married to Windows or Linux. Get some folks with an open  
| mind who are interested in the overall good of the company and are not 
| married to a certain technology.         
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http://madgreek65.blogspot.com/2007/06/open-source-and-microsoft-free.html


Related:

A File Format Timeline

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| Like any durable goods monopoly (and few things are as durable as 
| software) Microsoft's largest competitor is their own install base. 
| Microsoft has made many attempts at moving beyond the binary formats 
| in the past, with Office 2000, Office XP and Office 2003. But in each 
| case it failed. These were all false starts and abandoned attempts. So
| we should look for signs that OOXML is actually Microsoft's real 
| direction and not another false start or dead end.
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http://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/06/file-format-timeline.html

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