[Info-vax] [OT] Word processing, was: Re: OT: Rob Short: Operating System Evolution

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 04-01-2010 08:17, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2010-01-03, Arne Vajhøj<arne at vajhoej.dk>  wrote:
>> But X based word processors were never a big success and
>> definitely not on VMS.
>
> Hmm, what about OpenOffice on Linux ? :-)
>
> It's been successful enough to have Microsoft worried. (I'm thinking of
> the corporate and public organisations which have decided on a
> non-Microsoft environment.)

If Linux took off it could be a serious threat to Windows.

But we have been waiting 10 years for that to happen. And
it has not happen yet.

Linux is pretty stable <1% of desktop market share.

Arne