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title: "On Open Office as Jacob's Creek"
date: 2005-10-31T23:22:43Z
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Go [Mr. Robertson](http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&entry=3308039926). Tackling the high migration cost argument, with respect to the good enough.

> It’s kind of like the situation that [French wine found itself in recently](http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/04/28/WIGV8CDIGV1.DTL). For a very long time, French wine was perceived to be the best in the world, and sellers were able to charge a premium based on that perception. Over time, various competing sellers popped up with much, much lower costs – Chilean, Australian, and Italian wines, for example. For a variety of reasons (some political, some price based), people started trying out the alternatives over the last few years and discovered two things:
> 
> - The alternatives weren’t worse – they were at least as good
> - The alternatives were a **lot** cheaper

I don’t agree with James that all other wines are at least as good, but then again I don’t drink Chablis every day.