Exactly as they wrote 24 years ago | Version2

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This article revisits a 24-year-old analysis about switching from Microsoft software to StarOffice/OpenOffice. It argues that open source can deliver immediate savings on license costs and hardware requirements. The piece uses that old conclusion to criticize how slowly the market has acted on the economics of open source. It also includes a subscription pitch for Version2 and frames the publication as a watchdog on IT decisions.

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