Google: Media Play or IT Investment?
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| In my opinion (as well as others'), its office productivity software
| lacks the breadth and width of the market leader. Schmidt hinted at
| Google's preference for open source software [OSS] so maybe it can
| come up with some better way parlaying Sun's OpenOffice than last
| year's PRware (OpenOffice still falls short of Microsoft's
| ubiquitous products).
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http://biz.yahoo.com/seekingalpha/070307/28878_id.html?.v=2
IBM and Cisco Unveil Platform for Developing Unified Communications and
Collaboration Solutions
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| Based on open technologies such as Eclipse and OSGi, the platform
| will accelerate application development by enabling developers
| to easily include a rich set of communications and collaboration
| capabilities in their solutions.
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| [...]
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| The Lotus Sametime collaboration capabilities are built on IBM's
| Lotus Expeditor, which contains open technologies from OSGi and
| Eclipse.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/iw/070307/0223736.html
Yesterday:
ProSyst and Eclipse Open Source OSGi technology.
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| In addition to our commercial OSGi implementation, an enhanced Open
| Source OSGi Distribution from ProSyst is now available for free.
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http://www.automatedbuildings.com/releases/mar07/070307022950prosys.htm
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/
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
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