IBM needs a young Bill Gates at its helm to take a gamble like offering the Lotus email smart suite - enterprise solution free as part of the free offer, offering free training for new users, no licenses and then charging for support.
That strategy is just a repeat, history repeats itself - remember Windows 3.1; it was so free and used anywhere , those days we compared it to PC DOS ?? warmest regards Shem Nnaggenda Kanabi-Nsubuga Head Business Planning, CB Projects, Business Process Re-Engineering CONSUMER BANKING ~ SCB UGANDA Standard Chartered Bank, 5 Speke Rd, P. O. Box 7111, Kampala, Uganda Office Tel: +256 41 258211/5, 349505/9 ext 4268; Direct +256 41 237784 or +256 312 294268 Cell: 256 71 2 533 096 AEN: 256 4268 "Whoever is first in the field and awaits the coming of the enemy will be fresh for the fight. Whoever is second in the field and has to hasten to battle will arrive exhausted" ________________________________________________________________________ ___ ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kiggundu Mukasa Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 10:35 AM To: Linux Users Group Ug. Group Ug. Subject: [LUG] IBM offers it's flavour of Open Office for free http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=42476 IBM ANNOUNCED in New York City yesterday that it will offer a complete set of office productivity applications as free downloads. Branded as IBM Lotus Symphony, the office suite will include word processing, spreadsheet and presentation programs. Implementing the XML based file and display formats of the ISO standard Open Document Format (ODF) specification, Lotus Symphony will be based upon software written by the Open Office coalition, which IBM has joined along with Sun, Google and others. Last week IBM announced that it has dedicated 35 developers to contributing code to Open Office. The rest of IBM's Lotus line of email, messaging and work group collaboration applications, led by its flagship Lotus Notes product, are proprietary. IBM has invested significant resouces in Lotus for over a decade, ever since it bought Lotus for $3.5 billion in 1995. But its Lotus SmartSuite line of office applications failed to gain traction in attempting to challenge Microsoft Office during the late 1990s. By offering its flavor of Open Office under the Lotus banner, IBM may be hinting that it will add features to Open Office to integrate its applications with preexisting Lotus software................. -- Acta Virum Probant -- ---- Kiggundu Mukasa KYM-NET LTD. Plot 80 Kanjokya Street P.O. Box 24284 Kampala, Uganda Tel: +256 772 972255 +256 414 571779 Fax: +256 312 262122 http://kym.net This email is confidential. If you are not the addressee tell the sender immediately and destroy this email without using, sending or storing it. Emails are not secure and may suffer errors, viruses, delay, interception and amendment. Standard Chartered PLC and subsidiaries ("SCGroup") do not accept liability for damage caused by this email and may monitor email traffic.
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