Punditry, and how to make it pay :-) (was Re: moving from Sco to Linux)

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 06:15:25PM -0400, William Randall wrote:
> > By "anything like", (hopefully) clearly, I mean "operating system
> > effective monopoly with a ridealong almost-monopoly market share in
> > office and browser software".  For my purposes, the measurable item is
> > unit shipments of software, since, clearly, they get an unfair
> > advantage over F/OSS if you measure it in terms of money.
> 
> I just recently installed Sun's OpenOffice and am very happy to be out from
> the overhead of MS Office.  All my existing documents and spreadsheets
> appear to work flawlessly.

I revved a client from 1.0.1 to 1.1.1 last month... *2 days* before
1.1.2 came out.  :-)  They seem quite pleased with it, overall, though
there are a couple things...

We may be about to do Major Transplant Surgery over there, though, so
I'm putting off the 1.1.2 upgrade.  It will be a RH7.3 to S90Pro
crossgrade; I'll take notes for y'all.

Cheers,
-- jra
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