Monday, December 5th, 2005, 2:44 am
OpenDocument Embraced by IBM
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OpenDocument may lead the way to Web-based office suites
(TinyMCE is shown for illustrational purposes only)
TAGED acceptance of the OpenDocument standard was discussed in the context of Massachusetts. It was also argued, with timely backing from the media, that corporate Open Source migrations are no longer the exception. Finally, IBM have big plans for OpenDocument, which they can vigorously employ and help spread.
IBM plans to support early next year the OpenDocument standard in its desktop software, a product the company intends to market aggressively in developing countries.
IBM and their occasional Open Source push gets mentioned in an article titled “Is Open Source Really Just as Good”? (Part I, Part II – published today)
While I didn’t say it explicitly, when companies like IBM, HP, Novell, Dell and even Sun are driving the adoption, deployment and support of various parts of the LAMP stack in the enterprise, it’s safe to say that the ecosystem for many open source projects is thriving…
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