Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: codawg who wrote (29102)	9/3/1999 4:17:00 PM
From: Reginald Middleton	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

When you say it is not prohibitively high, it can be guaranteed that management will definitely look to that number when the business cycle turns down. And one of us are off in our math. The cost of the Office license alone is more than $104 per user per year. The cheapest you can license MSFT Office for is $249 per user retail upgrade (about 125 per user per year). Add in a discount for bulk purachses, and you are at about $104 give or take. Add in all the rest and you have nearly tripled the price. Now (I'm the CFO/COO/CTO talking here), instead of firing you workforce and pairing down benefits and perks when times get rough revenue-wise, how about taking a look at that free Office suite?