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2006: Time to plan your company's escape from Microsoft
By Jan Stafford
02 Feb 2006 | SearchOpenSource.com

This is the year to plan your company's great escape. The window of
opportunity to fly from Microsoft's proprietary cage is open wider than
ever before. 

Two facts lead me to this conclusion:

     1. Microsoft Corp. (MS) is releasing a slew of product updates,
        including a new client operating system and Office 12, this
        year. Generally, those products will be more complex and
        expensive than their predecessors.
     2. Escaping vendor lock-in is number one reason IT managers switch
        to Linux and open source software (OSS) and the primary barrier
        to Linux/OSS adoption, according to a new SearchOpenSource.com
        survey of almost 150 IT managers.

By my calculations, one plus two equals an opportunity to break free of
Microsoft's proprietary applications and operating system.

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