NZ Outfit Dumps Open Office For MS Office

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday July 17, 2007 @07:38AM from the pull-of-the-dark-side dept.

(Score.5, Interestin writes "The NZ Automobile Association has just announced that it is dropping Open Office and switching back to MS Office. According to their CIO, 'Microsoft Office is not any cheaper, but it was almost impossible to work out what open-source was actually costing because of issues such as incompatibility and training.' In addition, 'you have no idea where open-source products are going, whereas vendors like Microsoft provide a roadmap for the future.'" About 500 seats are involved. MS conceded to letting Office users run the software at home as well.

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Re:Sniff, sniff... by Anonymous Coward · 2007-07-17 08:45 · Score: 0, Redundant

Is it so hard to believe that a productivity suite might just be worth spending money on?
That the money spent is somehow offset by the quality of the product?

I spend a few hours a day using a particular productivity suite. I don't have time to use software designed by amateurs and/or hobbyists.