Open Source and Microsoft Free
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| For companies with huge budgets it might make sense to continue down the
| Microsoft path. For small and medium sized companies with limited budgets,
| startups, and educational or government funded operations, I believe they
| should consider exploring alternatives. The worst thing that can happen with
| a small pilot is that you discover that Linux won't work for your
| organization. At least then you can sleep at night knowing you did your
| homework and made a strategic decision based on real information. One word of
| caution, though. If you take on a pilot, make sure you have a few people on
| the team who are not married to Windows or Linux. Get some folks with an open
| mind who are interested in the overall good of the company and are not
| married to a certain technology.
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http://madgreek65.blogspot.com/2007/06/open-source-and-microsoft-free.html
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A File Format Timeline
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| Like any durable goods monopoly (and few things are as durable as
| software) Microsoft's largest competitor is their own install base.
| Microsoft has made many attempts at moving beyond the binary formats
| in the past, with Office 2000, Office XP and Office 2003. But in each
| case it failed. These were all false starts and abandoned attempts. So
| we should look for signs that OOXML is actually Microsoft's real
| direction and not another false start or dead end.
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http://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/06/file-format-timeline.html
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