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No wonder their budget was modest: how much did they have left to spend after
buying all those licenses for Windows and Office on top of that? They should
talk to that guy from the Largo gvt...
Russell
On Wednesday 24 April 2002 09:59 am, you wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Economic Development Council - Sue Lathrop"
> <slathrop@manateeedc.com> To: "patrick grantham" <pwgrant@cssi-fl.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 12:53 PM
> Subject: re: must be IE
>
> > Patrick,
> > Although we are not ready to boycott Microsoft products, I can understand
>
> your frustration and apologize for any inconvenience experienced by you and
> those who agree
>
> > with your stance on Internet Explorer.
> >
> > When we reviewed our options for a new web site we were looking for
>
> features that would provide a seamless delivery of information to our
> potential clients, provide office integration within our organization, and
> incorporate some unique features such as the dynamic generation of PDF
> files. In order to achieve our goals we were faced with much higher
> programming costs to provide cross browser and interoffice software
> compatibility, or decide on a single platform. We reviewed the latest
> browser statistics and saw that Netscape had much less than ten percent of
> that market. (
>
> > http://www.thecounter.com/stats/2001/December/browser.php ) Consequently
>
> with that information and our VERY modest budget we decided to develop the
> web site and later provide a Netscape version with fewer features.
>
> > >> What a wacky decision to shut out browsers other than MSIE.
> >
> > Sue Lathrop
> > Economic Development Council
> > Phone: (941) 748-4842 ext. 125
> > E-mail: SLathrop@ManateeEDC.com
> > Web Site: www.ManateeEDC.com
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