Laura DiDio
Laura DiDio
add complexity help layer supposed together tools users
You put all these tools together and what is supposed to help users is going to add a big layer of complexity and expense.
afford best companies few tools
They are getting better on tools and things, and they can afford the best and the brightest. They're one of the few companies that has not had layoffs.
driven extreme fighting giants industry merely value
AOL's value is driven to the extreme merely because you had two industry giants fighting for it.
feels group hard hit
This group feels that they are particularly hard hit and that they don't have much leverage.
great microsoft potential thinks
Some things that Microsoft thinks will be great do have the potential of being annoying,
last marketing product strategy year
Novell has had a new product or marketing strategy every year for the last 13 or 14 years.
work
Novell doesn't want to do more work than they have to,
books learn line microsoft office support technical totally turn
Office 12 will not be so totally different that you can't learn as you go. And there are always the Dummies books and the Microsoft technical support line to turn to.
ought ready six
After six years of development it ought to be ready by now.
actively customers gone looking microsoft people percentage replace windows
The percentage of customers who say they are actively looking to replace Microsoft has gone up. When it comes down to it, some people aren't going to be able to do it (migrate off of Windows and Office). But where Microsoft can be replaced, it's become a real fashionable thing to do.
allow bang businesses running small technology
I see more and more small businesses running servers, even one-person offices. They allow you to get more bang for your technology buck.
basic brings question security
It brings us to the basic question of usability vs. security,
add benefits customers folks free microsoft mingle talk time training valuable value
I think that the training benefits are the most valuable to customers because that's something that has been slashed out of budgets. Any time these folks can get out and mingle and talk to professionals and have it bundled in as a free service, that really does add to the value of a Microsoft license.
environment linux major operating software system undergoing
The metamorphosis of Linux from a free, hobbyist software environment to a major revenue-producing operating system is occurring with the same surety and swiftness of a neighborhood undergoing gentrification,