IBM Translates Lotus Symphony for a Globally Integrated World
,----[ Quote ]
| Lotus Symphony is a suite of software tools for creating text, spreadsheet
| and presentation documents -- the most frequently used desktop tools -- based
| on OpenOffice code. It supports the OpenDocument format (ODF), Microsoft
| Office and Lotus SmartSuite formats.
`----
http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/marketwire/0350350.htm
Microsoft's Lotus FUD Tools
,----[ Quote
| It's Lotusphere in Orlando, Fla,, and Microsoft just can't resist playing
| spoiler to IBM announcements—software-as-a-service offerings for SMBs, new
| forthcoming Domino and Notes features, and software collaboration agreement
| with SAP.
`----
http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/messaging_collaboration/news_briefs_12208.html?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535
Yesterday:
The Standard Trolls
,----[ Quote ]
| It is hard to resolve the pecking order of posters in the Microsoft blogger
| echo chamber. So let's just remark that all the usual suspects assisted in
| this one: Doug Mahugh, Stephen McGibbon, Oliver Bell, Gray Knowlton, etc. Mix
| together, shake, repeat, turn the crank and presto! Out comes news.
|
| [...]
|
| By analogy to patent trolls, what we're seeing here is the behavior of a
| standards troll -- defining a conformance clause so vague that everything in
| the world is considered to support it, and then searching through
| competitor's web sites in hopes of finding some place where they stumbled
| into supporting it, and then trying to extract some advantage from it.
|
| The point should be to look for examples of where OOXML is supported to the
| highest degree, to point out the best examples of high-fidelity interchange
| that your standard allowed. You would think that with so many people at
| Microsoft with "interoperability" in their job titles, that this would be
| obvious. I guess not. But don't be sad. You can always count
| on "supportadmin3" to cheer you up!!!
`----
http://www.robweir.com/blog/2008/01/standard-trolls.html
IBM Offers Collaboration Support for Ubuntu
,----[ Quote ]
| IBM today announced that it will offer an integrated Open Collaboration
| Client Solution with support for Ubuntu, a Linux-based operating system from
| Canonical Ltd. that is especially popular for desktops, laptops and thin
| clients.
`----
http://www.ebizq.net/news/8847.html?rss
Related:
Free IBM Software Is Bid to Challenge Microsoft Office
,----[ Quote ]
| The IBM package, called Symphony, can be downloaded free of charge. The home
| edition of Microsoft's Office lists for $120 on Internet retail sites. IBM
| will also give away the Symphony software to customers who buy the latest
| version of its Notes collaboration software, which costs $145 per user.
`----
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119007597680930576.html
IBM to lift lid on its OpenOffice plans next week
,----[ Quote ]
| It’s not in the plan for OpenOffice 3.0 or future versions of the open source
| desktop, said John McCreesh, Marketing Project Lead of OpenOffice.org, in an
| e-mail exchange.
|
| “There’s nothing about that in the IBM statement,” McCreesh said, referring
| to the possibility of contributing Notes colaboartion code to the open source
| projects. “It’s not in the roadmap. It’s much more likely that we would do
| co-operative work with one or more open-source email client projects to
| integrate OpenOffice.org more closely with their software.”
`----
http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1406
|
|
