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As eWeek Senior Editor Peter Galli has reported over the past several weeks, many IT administrators are either not planning to upgrade to the new Microsoft products or looking to switch to less expensive products—a direct result of the licensing plans, they said.
If new software is needed, but not the costs or headaches of dealing with the new Microsoft licenses, some are taking renewed looks at Linux and Sun's StarOffice desktop productivity suite. Sun notes that users downloaded the latest beta of StarOffice in record numbers since it debuted earlier this month.
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