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[News] UK IT Chiefs Prepared to Ditch Microsoft Office (and Choose an ODF Life)

CIOs want to see more of Google Apps

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| Three-quarters of silicon.com's 12-strong CIO Jury IT user panel
| said they would consider using the enterprise version of Google's
| software in their corporate IT infrastructure.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6162629.html

This could be the end of a de facto standard. Sun and Google are working on
healthy(ier) interoperability between OOo and Google Apps. More below.


Related:

Google manager: Google Apps replaced Microsoft Office at 100,000 businesses

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| Google's newly released online productivity suite Google Apps has
| already replaced Microsoft Office at more than 100,000 small to
| medium enterprises and has been deployed at two of the largest
| companies in the world, according to the search leader's
| enterprise product boss.
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http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/9889/53/


Dumping Office for Google Apps

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| Google has a friend in Disney, and that could leave Microsoft screaming
| like a jilted lover.
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http://videos.webpronews.com/2007/02/07/dumping-office-for-google-apps/


100,000,000 OpenOffice.org fans can't be wrong

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| Simon's official response explained the business rationale behind
| offering support for OpenOffice.org: "OpenOffice.org has becomep
| henomenally successful, Sun alone has shipped more than 70 million
| copies of OpenOffice.org 2.0," he said. "Out there, there
| are maybe 100 million copies of OpenOffice.org. It would be
| senseless to ignore that opportunity."
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http://www.businessreviewonline.com/os/archives/2006/11/100000000_openo.html


My Family Photos - and ODF

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| [Sun CEO:] "we're working with Google to ensure interoperability 
| between Google's office documents and OpenOffice documents -
| leveraging ODF as an exchange mechanism. Any document created
| in Google's office can be trivially exported to (and soon
| imported from) OpenOffice.
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http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/microsoft_vista_microsoft_office_and

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