They're planning to migrate 80 000 desktops from Office 97 to OpenOffice.org instead of Office XP, saving themselves an estimated €29.3 million (~ £20 million/$35 million).
That's not a small amount of money being withheld from M$....
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Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2005 2:12 am Post subject:
jakeOSX wrote:
of course MS would argue you'll spend ten bagillion dollars to train people how to use OO.o...
leaving out the fact that 97 and xp are so different, it would be the same...
though outlook xp is pretty.
I am assuming that they have factored the costs of "re-training" into that figure, though there is little difference between OpenOffice.org and Office 97 so I highly doubt that there would be very much needed. _________________ PBG4, 1.5GHz, SuperDrive, 1GB RAM, 128MB VRAM, 5400rpm 80GB HD, MacOS X 10.4.5
Little known fact that for every seat license you get for exchange server you get a license for Outlook. So if they keep exchange they can easily switch the office suite while keeping Outlook.
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