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To: Grainne who wrote (68794)	12/27/1999 4:40:00 AM
From: nihil	Respond to of 108807

Christine, if you think business is going to spend billions to retrain workers to use some Office Product other than Microsoft Off you need to wake up. Office is sunk training costs. It was hard as hell to get the clerks and professors to learn it. Even law offices have abandoned Word Perfect and move to Word. In our class room computers you must use Office or your work doesn't run or count. We did Word Perfect for years, and now it won't even run. Every IT guy I know loves Unix and hates Microsoft. Students of business at least hate Unix and will not consent to use anything but MSFT. Not to mention that is the one stock that everyone starts off his investing by buying. I started using Unix 26 years ago. It had the best author's software I had ever used. nroff. It had phototypesetting programs. It was wonderful. It still is. It is still exactly the same code. That's progress for you.