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To: cfimx who wrote (20162)	9/23/1999 2:07:00 PM
From: Charles Tutt	Respond to of 64865

It doesn't make sense if I have to hire dozens more administrators to keep things running than I would need using an alternative that can read those same files. Nor does it make sense to saddle my users with administrative tasks outside their job description when administration could be centralized and simplified. Even Microsoft seems (finally) to be admitting that their customers are clamoring for something like this. Consider it as just a logical extension of the recognized trend toward outsourcing IT. JMHO.

To: cfimx who wrote (20162)	9/23/1999 2:21:00 PM
From: QwikSand	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

I don't think the horizontal office app will remain the lone occupant of center stage. Most of what a business does, from payroll to performance appraisals to customer information to manufacturing and inventory control, contracts, field organization data, etc. etc. in addition to the more mundane accounting things will end up on the web (intranet) in the form of specialized web applications, not in the form of a bunch of Excel spreadsheets and Word documents. Some IT guys may resist change, but not for long. The Conventional Wisdom is overturned not by better ideas, but by circumstances for which it can no longer account. The Conventional Wisdom is Word and Excel documents on fat clients having a stranglehold on the desktop. The overturning circumstance is the migration of most corporate information to an inter- or intra-net structure and migration of applications to exploit that structure. Regards, --QS

To: cfimx who wrote (20162)	9/23/1999 6:02:00 PM
From: Prognosticator	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Hello Twister. I see you need my help again. How many version of incompatible .doc files have Microsoft got out now? 4, 5, 10? Every time I get a .doc file from somebody, I have to go out and install the latest and greatest .doc format file reader, and hope that installing it doesn't mess up my system. StarOffice at least attempts to deal with all the weird formats. What's so hard about making .doc files compatible: nothing, but Microsoft really wants you to be stupid enough to go out and buy office xxxx when they next muck about with the format. That's a really productive and compelling stranglehold to want. P.