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Impact of Partnership is with StarOffice and Projity knocking Office
The most useful outcome of this partnership will clearly be less directly financial gain and more on influence. Microsoft's strength due to the monopoly with Office is undeniable. I have been using two beta's recently (StarOffice 8 and Projity for project management) that offer cost effective alternatives that eliminate the need to use Office. If these are successful it will be an enormous blow to Microsoft's plans to leverage this strengh and extend into ERP, CRM and other areas. StarOffice has the word processing, spreadsheet and presentation equivalents. Projity has a project management solution that is a replacement for Project. These solutions open existing files so switching does not take time or effort. If these get out there then Microsoft will be in trouble !

The Google/Sun partnership will be most effective if they can bring Google's great consumer attentive audience to solutions like StarOffice (http://www.sun.com ) and Projity ( http://www.projity.com ). StarOffice 8 is out of beta and the Projity solution I think is coming out of beta. If Microsoft gets knocked in these areas it will become much more difficult to extend into other areas. That my friends may ultimately be the outcome of yesterdays mumbled, opaque announcements......
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Impact of Partnership is with StarOffice and Projity knocking Office  linuxbeatsms@... | 10/05/05
re: the promise  DanaBlankenhorn ZDNet Moderator | 10/05/05
I think the problem is they didn't want tip their hand to Microsoft.  DonnieBoy | 10/07/05
What did he promise?  Anton Philidor | 10/05/05
Maybe no broken promises, but certainly disappointment  george_ou | 10/05/05
Interesting Point  DanaBlankenhorn ZDNet Moderator | 10/05/05
Are they acting or *re*-acting?  Nigel Johnstone | 10/05/05
Nigel's excellent question  DanaBlankenhorn ZDNet Moderator | 10/05/05
They are busy executing on their strategy and keeping their cards close to  DonnieBoy | 10/07/05

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