I have not followed the entire thread on this issue but I did a search through the discussion and could not find anyone mentioning the issues with Scientific Word/Workplace.
I have worked with a co-author that insists on using Scientific Word. My experience is that not only is SW/SWP very expensive, I also find it a far inferior product to LyX. It is not easy to import documents from SWP and even harder to export them to SWP even though they are both LaTeX editors. At the university, SWP is available as a standard install on machines but not LyX. I suppose two suggestions might include (1) seemless imports from SWP (I think easier to do than exporting to SWP--I found SWP would balloon in memory and CPU usage when importing my tex documents and needed to be killed and it's closed-source nature makes it difficult to locate the formatting issues which it gets hung up on) as this would allow users to change to LyX easily with documents they have already written and understand and (2) more advertising of LyX with universities (and perhaps some of their software budget donated to LyX as users ultimately move away from SWP reducing licensing costs). Just my two cents. -Ken
