Why OpenOffice.org Failed -- and What to Do About It

Oct 21, 2008, 18:46 (3 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Glyn Mody)

[ Thanks to E5 Rebel for this link. ]

"And here we have an in-depth study of just such a failure of OpenOffice.org:

"we present a case study on the Belgian Federal Public Service (FPS) Economy which considered the use of OpenOffice.org, but eventually decided not to adopt OpenOffice.org as their primary office suite."

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