RE: RE: MIcrosoft Blackmail

Then there's OpenOffice. Very nice. http://www.openoffice.org - I use it regularly and have had no problems.

Scott Shafer
San Antonio, TX
210.581.6217

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dgoulet_at_vicr.com [SMTP:dgoulet_at_vicr.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 4:28 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: Re:RE: MIcrosoft Blackmail
>
> Dennis,
>
> Actually migrating to StarOffice is pretty simple. We would have done
> so a
> year ago, but the mail package we're using would not budge. Damn Lotus.
>
> Dick Goulet
>
> ____________________Reply Separator____________________
> Author: DENNIS WILLIAMS <DWILLIAMS_at_LIFETOUCH.COM>
> Date: 9/26/2002 12:37 PM
>
> Yeah, I saw that one and thought "how hard can that be?". Just raise
> license
> fees again. What are corporations going to do? Switch to StarOffice? Do
> that
> and all the users will insist that they much have pure MS.
>
> Dennis Williams
> DBA
> Lifetouch, Inc.
> dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 1:57 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
> Speaking of R&D, what about the eWeek article about how M$ is going to
> pump
> $3,000,000,000.00 into MS Office? They want to achieve $20,000,000,000.00
> per year in revenue on MSOffice alone. Seems like they want to dominate
> the
> desktop with more that just the O/S and browser. Can't anyone slay this
> beast?
>
> It's an evil world in which we live...
>

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