____/ Jerry McBride on Friday 20 June 2008 02:19 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> IBM starts to turn away from Microsoft Office
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>> | IBM's management has told 20,000 employees to change from Microsoft
>> | Office to Lotus Symphony, its own open source office suite.
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http://www.heise-online.co.uk/open/IBM-starts-to-turn-away-from-Microsoft-Office--/news/110943
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> Wow... did they just save a ton of money! Also, Lotus Symphony has excellent
> ODF and RTF support... the two most common document types in the World.
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>> Recent:
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>> Lotus Notes 8.5 to fully support Ubuntu Linux 7.0 in mid-2008
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>> | "We're doing pilots with customers now," Satyadas said. "Some of the
>> | requests came from big companies" with as many as 100,000 users that are
>> | interested in
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>> | moving to Ubuntu Linux on the desktop.
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>> | "Linux is cool now," he said. "We use it ourselves. We are able to offer
>> | a secure, rich and cost-effective Microsoft alternative."
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http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=hardware&articleId=9058900&taxonomyId=12&intsrc=kc_top
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> I'm surprised it's not more. Just about everywhere I go now-a-days I see
> Open Office for those that need a full suite and ABIWord or similar for
> those doing simple documents... The days of mega-buck software is just
> about over... The only way Microsoft could save it's Office software would
> be to Open Source it... But then again they are so anal... it'll never
> happen.
The source code would do nothing to help it. It's the excessive margins
Microsoft will /have/ to give up. Documents and spreadsheets are coming a
commodity.
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~~ Best of wishes
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Internet and Open Source projects is not your enemy. It is your friend, the
source of basic research that you can turn into your next generation of
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