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$50M vs. $5M

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Bob_Robertson

Nov 01, 2005
9:54 AM EST 		The IT office of Massachusetts said they did a quick study to determine the approx. cost of going with Office 12 (which will run only on Vista, says MS) and the various applications which already support ODF.

The MS-Office-12 migration would be at least $50M, since it will require upgrading all software, some hardware, etc.

To outfit and train every state employee with OpenOffice: $5M Max. No OS upgrades, no license fees, just training and compliance checking.

The audio recording of that Massachusetts meeting is 2 hours long, but it doesn't drag. Microsoft comes off as a complete idiot.
dinotrac

Nov 01, 2005
4:01 PM EST 		Bob, Bob, Bob...

It's easy to look at $5,000,000 and think that it's less than $50,000,000, but that ain't necessarily so.

Say, for example, you were using Excel...
jimf

Nov 01, 2005
4:48 PM EST 		Gee Dino,

I don't think I'm speaking out of turn if I tell you that Bob and I will be be happy to each give you our $5000 for your $100000. Heck, I'll even throw in a bootleg copy of Excel.. :)
dinotrac

Nov 02, 2005
12:49 AM EST 		jimf -

If we're talking personal checks here, I'm pretty sure that your $5,000 is worth a whole lot more than my $100,000!

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