Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 1st Sep 2005 14:47 UTC
Some prominent figures in the Linux community believe that as enterprises increase their use of Linux on the desktop, Microsoft will be forced to consider offering a version of Office for Linux. "When the [Linux desktop] market share gets to a certain point, Microsoft will, just as it did with Apple in the past, make Office available on Linux," CEO Stuart Cohen of OSDL said in an interview. My take: Mr. Cohen is forgetting two important things: Excel was first released for the Mac (1985) and Word wasn't popular until MS ported it from DOS to Mac (1985).
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The entire desktop Linux discussion is silly. I work for a company trying to push desktop Linux and OpenOffice and am involved in the sales process. It's astounding the disconnect between the hardcore folks who are completely sold on the OSS community concept and the business folks who only care about getting their work done.
M$-Orifice on Linux won't happen. Fagetabatit. Done. Dead. The ONLY reason that M$FT is still supporting Orifice on the Mac platform is to keep the semblance of competition alive. If Apple were to achieve a significant percentage of desktop installations M$FT would no longer have to even play that game.
Forget about Orifice on Linux.....Hell, while you're at it, forget about desktop Linux. Don't waste any more electricity on the subject.
Cheers!