____/ Mark Kent on Tuesday 11 September 2007 14:28 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> IBM Adds Lotus Notes Code To OpenOffice Project
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>>| The stakes are high as an increasing number of government and enterprise
>>| software buyers are insisting that the applications they purchase conform
>>| to internationally recognized standards.
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201805296&cid=nl_IWK_daily
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>> IBM to give OpenOffice the Outlook e-mail killer it needs?
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>>| Has the Outlook killer for OpenOffice finally arrived?
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>>| OpenOffice is the most promising open source alternative to Microsoft
>>| Office that runs on most Linux distributions, Windows, Macintosh and BSD
>>| but to date it has lacked an integrated e-mail service such as the Outlook
>>| client that is integrated in Microsoft Office.
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>> http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1401
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> There's no doubt that we need a good, open,
> diarying/calendaring/synchronisation capability in the open-source
> world. There are a great many projects, but they like an overarching
> coherence. Perhaps the Linux Foundation can provide such a top-level
> view, integrating the various projects in between, in a similar way to
> that which KDE and Gnome have managed for the desktop itself.
They recruit for printing now. As for synchronisation, there's Glide (new) and
with Lotus/Sunbird, there's calendaring as well. KDE has nice facilities as
well and so does Evolution.
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~~ Best of wishes
Microsoft loves competition.
"We should whack them (Dell over Linux dealings), we should make sure they
understand our value."
--Paul Flessner, Senior Vice President, Server Applications Unit
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