Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 5th Oct 2005 17:43 UTC
Microsoft has rejected porting its Office productivity suite to Linux anytime soon, despite the growing popularity of open source on the desktop. Speaking at the LinuxWorld conference in London on Wednesday, Microsoft's head of platform strategy, Nick McGrath, said that the software maker had no intention of porting Office to any of the Linux desktop distributions.
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2005-08-06
I can see Microsofts standpoint here because of some real serious issues.
Surely there are a lot of Linux users (I would assume so anyway).
But from Microsofts point of view you have to divide them into 3 groups
1. Linux users who did the switch because they don't wanna use MS -- will NOT buy Office
2. Linux users who simply don't wanna pay - will NOT buy office
3. Linux users who don't mind paying - Might buy office
Putting it like this makes the userbase probably very small. Let's make a comparison here...
MySQL targets all 3 groups, they're still like a tiny winy company with small income despite that they have thousands of users.
This is only through a simple sales perspective which should be put in relation to the technical obstacles of making office for Linux which lacks standards between distributions etc...