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> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> ____/ Matt on Friday 11 Sep 2009 21:37 : \____
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>>> Here is a story in English referring to the original German article in
>>> Handelsblatt:
>>>
>>> http://www.h-online.com/open/Report-says-IBM-is-switching-from-Microsoft-
>> Office-to-Lotus-Symphony--/news/114216
>>>> Microsoft Office will then only be installed at IBM with prior approval.
>> The
>>>> instructions from the end of August stipulate that Symphony has to be
>>>> installed on all company computers within ten workdays. 330,000 employees
>>>> have reportedly already switched. The goal is apparently not to save
>> money.
>>>> Rather, IBM wants to make sure that all information will remain available
>> on
>>>> all IT platforms and on the internet.
>>
>> This ought to make it easier for them to move to GNU/Linux. 2 years ago 6% of
>> IBM's employees used GNU/Linux, reportedly.
>
>
> That would be a major step along the usual path to Linux.
>
> Let's just hope it's true. I would believe it sooner if we were hearing
> leaks from the hundreds of thousands affected. I would think we'd be
> hearing a lot of complaints just because a lot of people would be upset
> over any major change of software such as this. Really I wouldn't put
> it past people on either side who might think it would be good to make
> up a lie like this, if it is a lie.
It's like intra-network effect. IBM employees will be pissed off to receive
.DOC, so there'll be peer (colleague) pressure.
> BTW, HPT beat me to these links, but he threw them in with a couple of
> old related links, and I didn't follow the newer ones.
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