__/ [ nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ] on Thursday 18 May 2006 22:23 \__
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> IBM has just given Microsoft another 125 million reasons to worry about
> the future of its one of its two biggest money spinners, Microsoft
> Office. Big Blue has announced that the next version of its Groupware
> suite Lotus Notes will include the three main applications of the MS
> Office suite, a word processor, a spreadsheet and a presentation
> program.
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> What's more, IBM has stated that not only will the office productivity
> applications be compatible with Microsoft Office as well as the ISO
> standard Open Document Format (ODF), but the existing 125 million Lotus
> Notes users will be able to upgrade to the new version for free.
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I wonder if we are yet to see Sun Microsystems going head to head with
IBM. Sun have liaised with Google and Microsoft vowed to compete with IBM
directly, so this could become intersting.
There is plenty of money to be won in this market which can appeal to
merely any computer user (e.g. not servers) in the world. These rich
environments definitely need some corporate backing, which is why projects
like KOffice are somewhat of an OO.org compromise, which integrate better
into the desktop environment and offer great speed because they are
native. The UI is more familiar, too.
Best wishes,
Roy
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