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Sun wants people to pay for StarOfficeSun wants people to pay for StarOfficePosted Sep 22, 2004 11:42 UTC (Wed) by markhb (guest, #1003)In reply to: Sun wants people to pay for StarOffice by lolando Parent article: OpenOffice: A legal Trojan horse--but for whom? (ZDNet)
I believe that, in most companies (especially the larger ones), "well-managed" is defined as "whatever makes the sales force happiest." ANYTHING proposed by the IT staff which gives them cause to complain is usually frowned upon by the top-level management (many of whom probably came from sales to start with). MS software is entrenched at such companies because a) it's compatible with what their clients are using (again, MS software) and b) the sales force already understands it. Give the sales force a choice between making IT fight the occasional virus fire, and losing the fancy bells-and-whistles provided by the Outlook / Exchange combo, they'll happily accept the viruses.
Remember too, that for publicly-held companies, "well-managed" is also defined as (in preference to the above) "has a rising stock price." Wall Street isn't going to punish companies for outbreaks of MS-related viruses, because the analysts and large purchasers have already accepted them as part of the accepted standard (i.e., "no one ever got fired for buying Microsoft") for doing business.
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