[K12OSN] opening the market to alternatives

[glhudso attglobal net]

Breaking Microsoft's lock on office file formats is critical to a
competitive IT environment.

Everyone needs to promote StarOffice, Open Office or open file
formats(HTML,XML).

Get windows users to run StarOffice or Open Office. Every win Office
users that is not using Office2000 or OfficeXP needs to be upgraded to
StarOffice or OpenOffice. Once they have upgraded to OfficeXP there is
little incentive for them to look at alternatives. There are millions of
users that have not upgraded to OfficeXP. This is a tremendous
opportunity for getting people in to alternative options.

Get all the windows home users running StarOffice or OpenOffice and it
will be easier to get StarOffice and OpenOffice into the business and
corporate environments.

Make a OpenOffice CD for all your windows using friends and neighbors.