“However, a few ideas have survived the drive to reduce
total cost of ownership. Sun Microsystems’ hybrid productivity
application, StarPortal, has some promise…“
“The way Steve Ballmer, president of Microsoft, put it, “We will
be adding Office services and Exchange services, and those things
will have a price that reflects the value we are currently
delivering to our customers.”
“Loosely translated, this means: “We’re going to make sure you
pay us the same amount of money whether you buy Microsoft Office
and run it on Windows or rent it and run it on something else.”