Stephen O'Grady
Stephen O'Grady
ability asking choice compete control customers looking microsoft opportunity
There's a confluence of events. You have customers like Massachusetts asking for choice and the ability to play vendors off each other, and at the same time, you have vendors looking at an opportunity to compete on a Microsoft control point.
choosing fighting fights-and-fighting ibm ride
is about IBM not fighting the open-source tide, but choosing to ride it.
attacking helpful hiding problems products staying
Staying on message, hiding problems and attacking other products is just not helpful with this audience.
competing merits nice office support technical
Office 12 is a very, very nice package. If they were support ODF, they'd do very well just competing on technical merits of applications. It's very nice package. That's the shame. It doesn't have to be an anti-Microsoft thing,