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A.B. Nelson
While I understand your desire to include the Office CD as part of the update
process it adds significant time to the patch cycle as my clients scramble
around to find where they left the CD. The end result of this is that today
I had a client running Office 2000 make the decision to not upgrade to Office
2003 as per my suggestion but instead switch to Sun's office suite. I had to
tell them that upgrading to 2003 would not improve that aspect of thier
update process. After looking at the Sun product they have now asked me to
convert 20 users.
From my point of view, a 20 user Sun sale is about as profitable as a single
user Microsoft sale, and is really a beating on the 20 user Microsoft sale I
ahd been hoping for. If the requirement for the Office CD continues to be a
part of the update process I expect more of this.
process it adds significant time to the patch cycle as my clients scramble
around to find where they left the CD. The end result of this is that today
I had a client running Office 2000 make the decision to not upgrade to Office
2003 as per my suggestion but instead switch to Sun's office suite. I had to
tell them that upgrading to 2003 would not improve that aspect of thier
update process. After looking at the Sun product they have now asked me to
convert 20 users.
From my point of view, a 20 user Sun sale is about as profitable as a single
user Microsoft sale, and is really a beating on the 20 user Microsoft sale I
ahd been hoping for. If the requirement for the Office CD continues to be a
part of the update process I expect more of this.