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In evolutionary terms, the local minimum is important. Climbing out of a local minimum in order to get to a distant and lower minimum cost is difficult. Microsoft's task is to make it just - just - hard enough to deter people. I note that each time Office or WIndows is updated and accepted into an organisation training seems to be involved, and that is the cost to compare to training in operating and maintaining FLOSS solutions to the same problems. Hardware tends to be replaced on a timetable of around 5 years, and therefore the difference in hardware requirements is not a very strong argument. The cost of each generation seems to be similar or lower, and the steady increase in speed is not really a driver for businesses, I think. -- A -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html