Re: MS Office for Linux

[Sujal Shah <sujal@worldnet.att.net>]

if I believe Linux was headed to the general desktop, yeah, maybe.

I honestly don't though (even though I use it at home for my personal
desktop).  The vaporware strategy would work better with something like
Be or Rhapsody (Intel).  I mean, there I could see someone saying, "I'll
wait until Office is out."  Maybe if engineers need it to use for their
office desktop machine or other users, I could understand the FUD
factor.  

I just think that alterna solutions will beat Microsoft to the punch in
those cases.  WINE (or TWINE now, I guess) is getting there.  Word 95
seems to work fine according to many reports already.

Sujal

Mitch Stone wrote:
> 
> --- From a message sent by Steve Cohen on 3/7/1999 8:37 PM ---
> 
> >I think I'm with you, Sujal.  As I said, if they give it away, they'll open
> >floodgates for IS departments to move from Windows to Linux.   If they
> >sell it
> >at standard prices, they may not be relevant in the LInux market.
> 
> And makes the vaporware strategy all the more attractive, does it not?
> 
> Mitch Stone
> mstone@vc.net

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