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by Red Rat on Thu Sep 15, 2005 at 10:35:36 AM PDT

three years ago when I first read about I thought that I never really understood what the benifits were to the customer, they sounded sort of ethereal to say the least. But then I am not a financial expert, did not get rich in the stock market boom either, so I thought I was a bit slow on the uptake. Well, after your comments and those who did bite, I guess it was indeed what I originally thought, and ethereal pile of you know what. Still don't see the reason to buy into it. Training vouchers? Why not just buy a book on how touse MS Office? Not much has changed in the office suite. If indeed Office 12 is going to be this major revision (probably hype) then there is going to be a very steep learning curve. A training session from MS is not going to reduce your cost that much. The real cost during a learning curve is the cost of the employee's time that continues well after the training sessions. You might lower the curve a small bit, but most training sessions because they are of a short duration, only reduce learning time in a minor fashion. I doubt that training vouchers or whatever they give out will be worth it. I guess I must be pretty slow to see where the bennies are in this offer.


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