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Migrating to OpenOffice.org 90 per cent cheaper than to Microsoft Office 12
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The industry's two major office suites, Microsoft Office and OpenOffice.org, will soon be releasing new versions. Recent research into these versions by large government departments indicates that for many sites, it is now 10 times cheaper to migrate to the new OpenOffice.org 2.0 than upgrading to Microsoft Office 12.
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"Cybersource believes that this change in policy by Microsoft will allow the open source OpenOffice.org suite, Microsoft's main competitor, to gain enough momentum to reach a tipping-point in the market. This scenario therefore threatens Office, which is one of Microsoft's two key product franchises - providing almost half of Microsoft's profit," continued Zymaris. "And since Microsoft Office is the single biggest thing tying users to the Microsoft Windows platform, a weakened market for Office also threatens the Windows product franchise too, in turn threatening the other half of Microsoft's profit base." Full Story |
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