Re: reflections on LJ's reader's choice awards

[Chema Celorio <chema ximian com>]

On Mon, 2001-10-15 at 04:06, Alan Cox wrote:
..
> > See those high numbers for Star Office? That means *real honest to
> > goodness people* are using Linux. Those Star Office votes are probably
> 
> The star office beta is making waves. I get a continual stream of we are
> consideirng star office feedback from people I meet. They are staring at MS
> office prices and Gartner's predictions and trying to reconcile them with
> slashed IT budgets. Interestingly many of the people I talk to now are
> much more interested in SO on windows than going the full leap just yet.

Which is great, they don't have to change all of their system just yet.
We create a migration path from Win+SO to GNOME+SO. Switching your
office suite is hard, switching your OS is a lot harder. But if they are
already using SO in windows, the migration cost to GNOME is smaller.

Chema

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