bumpski - 3:45 pm on Jan 9, 2010 (gmt 0)

Bill

I guess I should have said corporate (vs business) user. Large corporations with IT departments standardize on one and only one software configuration for most corporate PC's. From my history in the large corporate world Outlook was by far the server based mail client standard. (Therefore, so I could put in even more hours, corporations make sure Outlook is set up at home!)

If Open Office would clone that standard, corporate IT managers might start thinking about the (tremendous) cost savings of Open Office.

I use Firebird too, but the same argument applies in the corporate world for Firebird. What's the corporate IT standard?
(Plus Firebird's startup and shutdown times are bad, clearly memory management issues.)