[ILUG] openoffice.org

[Hunt, Bryan]

<rant>
> Unfortunatly some companies walk around blindfolded: "We use Microsoft
> because it industry standard", 

1) Its an industry monopoly based on little else other than incompetent/lazy

sys admins/support staff who are too dumb to handle anything other than 
point and click.

> "its proven in industry", 

2) It's proven to be slow, buggy, a breeding groud for macro viruses 

> "its well supported"
3) Has anyone ever gotten tech support from Microsoft?  Even IBM and people 
like that never had a clue what was wrong with MS systems that they shipped 
with their machines.

--B
</rant>
<disclaimer>
 PS: I'm tring to give up cigarettes.... 12 days now :-) So excuse the rants
</disclaimer>






-----Original Message-----
From: Gavin McCullagh [mailto:gavin at fiachra.ucd.ie]
Sent: 01 February 2002 17:05
To: Ilug (E-mail)
Subject: Re: [ILUG] openoffice.org


On Fri, 01 Feb 2002, Smith, Graham - Computing Technician wrote:

> Unfortunatly some companies walk around blindfolded: "We use Microsoft
> because it industry standard", "its proven in industry", "its well
> supported"
> and other nonsense... 

Well now this thread makes up about 20% of threads on this list.

Gavin


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