Re:Sun Microsystems is in an uncomfortable positio (Score 1)

Then consider switching the entire project team to OpenOffice. It's free (unlike MS-Office, where as a user community you're forced to upgrade when the first team member starts using the MS-Office-du-jour he got "for free" with his new laptop).

I've had consistently bad experience with collaboration using MS-Office because of incompatibilities between MS-Office revisions and the cost of rectifying that situation.