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I agree about setting policy.
When I said second rate apps. I was mostly talking about Star/OpenOffice. The fact it has no colaboration features, very little in the way of automation, and doesn't fit well with the existing paradigm makes them something less than state of the art, or more simply, second rate when compared to the competition.

Should corporations dictate what is and what is not installed? To a point yes, however that also closes the door on new ideas and new ways to gain a competative advantage. Face it, if every company was running these basic apps, installed them all the same way, and controlled every thing about them, there is no difference then between one company and the next. And by default, no competitive advantage over the next guy through the door.

Case in point, I remember very well the first time I seen AutoCad installed on a "corporate PC" blowing the main frame out of the water in both ease of use and speed of work. In fact there are a good number of engineering houses that never would have been able to compete against the big guys if it had not been for AutoCad.
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Misleading  nite_w0lf | 12/22/03
Hear hear!!  NemesisNL | 12/22/03
Did you guys actually read the article ?  GLMarx | 12/22/03
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Desktop Linux Adoption: The Penultimate Goal?  bhartman24 | 12/23/03
More Precisely  Mark Gist | 12/22/03
yes  ryusen | 12/22/03
no linux standards  Joe Blow_z | 12/22/03
I partly agree  NemesisNL | 12/22/03
True  issthatso | 12/22/03
Home users  Joe Blow_z | 12/22/03
And they deserve the opinion.  Damon K | 12/22/03
RE: Home Users  belad@... | 12/22/03
You need a history lesson.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 12/22/03
Your premise?  IT_User | 12/22/03
re: Home Users  ryusen | 12/22/03
Watch out, don't let the arrogance bite !  GLMarx | 12/22/03
Never had a game plan  IT_User | 12/22/03
Overlooking custom applications  wolf_z | 12/22/03
Post doesn't make sense.  libertyaikido | 12/22/03
Wolf, you're in that "left behind" segment  IT_User | 12/22/03
the longer term...  ryusen | 12/22/03
Installation ease,  Update victim | 12/22/03
I agree  nite_w0lf | 12/22/03
Debian  Sagax | 12/22/03
WishFUDfull thinking  jellyclock | 12/22/03
Not true.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 12/22/03
True, $hill. "Thousands" of Win shells?! You're delusional... or a liar.  dicktaurus@... | 12/22/03
windows shells  Joe Blow_z | 12/22/03
Joe, I guess Google is more than he...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 12/22/03
The $hill plays a bad Shell game, LOL... Google THIS.  dicktaurus@... | 12/22/03
Yes, It's true  nucrash | 12/22/03
How many  michael-t | 12/22/03
None of what you wrote is worth a hill of beans !  GLMarx | 12/22/03
Re: WishFUDfull thinking  mbraincell@... | 12/22/03
big f'n deal  dick lechter | 12/22/03
Profits come from volume.  Anton Philidor | 12/22/03
Might hurt some, definitely benefit others  IT_User | 12/22/03
PostgreSQL -- not MySQL  webmstr_dave@... | 12/22/03
Perens will fail ...  George Mitchell | 12/22/03
the problem i see is...  ryusen | 12/22/03
Ultimately, ego will make Linux fragment  marksashton | 12/22/03
Linux and the dumbing down of corporate America.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 12/22/03
Mainframes? User software?  hrlngrv | 12/22/03
I would disagree...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 12/22/03
I agree with you  Michael Kelly | 12/22/03
I leanered AutoCadd on a Main Frame  voska | 12/22/03
I don't believe so.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 12/22/03
Standardization vs. Customization  bhartman24 | 12/24/03
hrlngrv, Interesting how the pedulum swings: Centralized, distributed, ...  Plain Logic | 12/22/03
These aren't second rate  IT_User | 12/22/03
I agree about setting policy.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 12/22/03
Collaberation in Office products is overrated  voska | 12/22/03
Only to those that can't or won't use it.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 12/22/03
That's an understatement!  IT_User | 12/22/03
Not true.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 12/22/03
So you did  IT_User | 12/22/03
Why is it ....  oxymoronx@... | 12/22/03
Good post!  No_Ax_to_Grind | 12/22/03
OK - Up to a point  Sagax | 12/22/03
What a rant  voska | 12/22/03
My, aren't we full of vitriol!  IT_User | 12/22/03
You are uneducated  mslicker | 12/22/03
Why is it ....! Because  nite_w0lf | 12/22/03
Talkback-ers  pschroeder@... | 12/22/03
Because they are direct competitors  Michael Kelly | 12/22/03
Not much else thay can do really.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 12/22/03
Now that's funny  voska | 12/22/03
Well, that's one opinion.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 12/22/03
Quality != License  IT_User | 12/22/03
All depends what you want I suppose.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 12/23/03
You ever use K3B?  Damon K | 12/22/03
Don't believe so.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 12/22/03
You haven't use Mozzilla  voska | 12/23/03
On the topic of IE  voska | 12/23/03
it's always funny how...  ryusen | 12/22/03
Yeah, right bitty  NoB$ | 12/22/03
Wouldn't be a party  voska | 12/22/03
This is a comedy club?  No_Ax_to_Grind | 12/22/03
Because Zdnet inspires nothing else  FilledOut | 12/23/03
Fighting  pschroeder@... | 12/23/03
I agree  FilledOut | 12/24/03
Choose Your Desktop  TuxSolution04 | 12/22/03
Why not just leave it up to the admin?  Suicida| | 12/22/03
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Objectivity  nyabdns | 12/23/03
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Standards  gsteele531@... | 12/23/03

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