Mozilla (Re: [H-GEN] What can i use instead of SSHD?)

[Anthony Towns]

On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 04:53:45PM +1000, Raymond Smith wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Jun 2002, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 11:56:55AM +1000, Raymond Smith wrote:
> > > Me too! Do you have a good come-back to the 'desktop support' issue?
> > Have you had a look at the differences between Office 97 and [...]
> This issue is rather tangential to my original question which, rephrased,
> was "what arguement may be made against large organisations specifying
> particular applications?". I wasn't thinking about Microsoft Products at
> all.

Oh, right. Personally, I wouldn't make one against it: by and large it
seems a sensible thing to do to me. Having one secretary running Star
Office on Solaris, another running Abiword on Red Hat, and another couple
running different versions of Word on different versions of Windows or
MacOS doesn't seem particularly attractive: it means you have to pay
attention to security advisories from a raft of different vendors, that
you have less negotiating power when you're trying to get bulk discounts
for your licenses, that your secretaries can't move from one machine to
another and work to their capacity as your business needs might dictate.

You can take this too far of course, it's be pretty silly to stop your
top engineer from using vi because your secretaries use emacs, eg.

And at other times mixing and matching can be beneficial: bulk-licensing
Open Office for your engineers and management, and giving Word to
your secretaries might be effective, and substantially cheaper than
bulk-licensing Word, even counting any extra administrative hassle.

Cheers,
aj

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