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Is StarOffice Ready To Take On Office?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the should-it-even-battle dept.

A reader writes "CNET has an article about: Is StarOffice ready to take on MS Office? A quote: "Bottom line for Sun and StarOffice: If you keep aiming where Microsoft has already been, then your opportunities will be in China. A better tactic is to take aim at where the IT market is going to be and your opportunities will be much wider.""

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  1. Re:Irrational Office Loyalty by geekoid · · Score: 2, Troll

    How about "Learn this or leave"?(for the secretaries, not the wife;)

    fortunatly, my wife doesn't cling to irrationalities. Some would say that her devotion to her husband is the exception. but I digress

    of course you should do a funtionality test to ensure the new software can do what the old one did as easily, if not more easy.
    the loss in revenu from "retraining" will be made up with the money recouped from liscensing.
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