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What company will want to pay employees to learn Win8 over 6 weeks? $$$$$$$$ | 443 comments | Create New Account
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What company will want to pay employees to learn Win8 over 6 weeks? $$$$$$$$
Authored by: jjs on Monday, December 31 2012 @ 06:53 AM EST
1. Often they're there, but companies don't want to change.
Most big databases run on Linux, and Libreoffice/et all do
the same as MS Office.

2. Similar problems moving up the MS chain. And you can
PAY someone to do the work on Libreoffice or other
applications - and then gain back your independence.

3. a) No rarer than prioprietary libs / apps that have lousy
documentation

b) Buy from IBM, Red Hat, Canonical, etc - they will provide
support contracts.

I've heard all of these - and they all come down to "No one
got fired for buying Microsoft." Of course, no one got
fired for buying IBM, until someone was ;)

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etc)

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