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To: cheryl williamson who wrote (49055)5/17/2002 8:12:01 PM
From: richanfamus  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 64865
 
""For $18M we'll hire our own programmers to solve that."

Now that's some way to run a company !

The COO of BA decides to go into the business of office file format conversion by hiring programmers - instead of tending to whatever business BA (Boeing ?) is actually in.
Just to potentially save a few million dollars - and loading up with new people and new office sapce and new computers and new benefit packages and probably waiting a year or two to find out that the new people need a lot more new people until they burn through $18 million and saddle BA with incredible overhead in an area that isn't germane to their own business.

Now that is real FOCUS.



To: cheryl williamson who wrote (49055)5/18/2002 4:49:16 AM
From: Steve Lee  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 64865
 
To continue with your example...

Can you name a company that has bought 40,000 MS Office licences at $500 apiece? Or figures within 20% of those parameters?

BTW, did you know that corporate customers of IBM desktops get offered SmartSuite for $4? So tell me why those customers, on the whole, just format the hard disks and install MS Office?

BTW2, SmartSuite caters for automated installs much better than StarOffice, but not so well as MS Office.


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