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- Impact of Partnership is with StarOffice and Projity knocking Office
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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...... - Posted by: linuxbeatsms@... Posted on: 10/05/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
Impact of Partnership is with StarOffice and Projity knocking Office
linuxbeatsms@... | 10/05/05
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re: the promise
DanaBlankenhorn  | 10/05/05
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I think the problem is they didn't want tip their hand to Microsoft.
DonnieBoy | 10/07/05
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What did he promise?
Anton Philidor | 10/05/05
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Maybe no broken promises, but certainly disappointment
george_ou | 10/05/05
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Interesting Point
DanaBlankenhorn | 10/05/05
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Are they acting or *re*-acting?
Nigel Johnstone | 10/05/05
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Nigel's excellent question
DanaBlankenhorn | 10/05/05
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They are busy executing on their strategy and keeping their cards close to
DonnieBoy | 10/07/05
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What do you think?
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