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To: Joe NYC who wrote (72018)	2/20/2002 8:48:37 PM
From: pgerassi	Read Replies (2) of 275872

Dear Joe: Pricing aside (and I think you are incorrect as to the cost of Office XP per seat), the big portion of total costs is in retraining and computer upgrades needed to run the newer versions. In many previous upgrades, Microsoft messed up transition software and redid many interfaces causing many well working old templates and programs to fail both directly executed and transitioned to new. The cost of retraining people away from the older version's quirks and methods to the newer version which has different quirks and methods causes far more than a few hundred $. Some users refuse to switch. One of the hallmarks of open source is that things are grandfathered along (programmers who use the code they write or modify hate to relearn without extreme reasons for it). Old code, templates and the like are usually usable as-is on the new version with any exceptions well noted (unlike MS code)(for their rarity). Once learned, many OS tools and popular apps like 'vim' (OS version of vi) or 'emacs' (from older times) still work the same as they did 5 years, 10 years and more. Try writing the same paragraph in Word 1.0 and Word XP or over a longer period, use source that compiled on Microsoft BASIC v5.0 and use it on VB 7.0. Some corporations use software that's over 15 years old. I know of many applications during the Y2K scare that were looked at for the first time after 15 years being written on a COBOL compiler no longer even in existance with the source missing or not complete. Companies hate to retrain because it costs so much. Yes, it may cost them a bit to go with Star Office but, the underlying programs work the same as they did a few versions back and are more likely to work for many new versions in the future. 1 savings of a week's retraining and six months of getting back to speed can pay for 10-20 new versions at a few hundred $ each. MS still has not learned this yet. Pete

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