Letters

ABSTRACT

I just read “MOXIE: Microsoft Office-Linux Interoperability Experiment,“ (Hal Varian and Chris Varian, ACM Queue 1(5), July/August 2003). Thanks for running the study.

With the exception of my wife, my family has run OpenOffice on Linux for some time. My wife’s work forces her to use the Word doc format far more than the rest of us. Because of chronic Windows instability issues, she recently became the last of the tribe to make the move to the OpenOffice.org suite (again, on Linux).

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  K. Computing Milieux
  K.1 THE COMPUTER INDUSTRY
      Subjects: Suppliers

Additional Classification:
  D. Software
  D.4 OPERATING SYSTEMS
      D.4.0 General

          Nouns: Linux

General Terms:
Management, Standardization