On 9/18/07, Bill Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "I.B.M. to Offer Office Software Free in Challenge to Microsoft's Line" > http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/18/technology/18blue.html
The software IBM is offering is not the Lotus office suite, but it's own brand of OpenOffice.org, if I read the rest of the article correctly: "But I.B.M. is taking a different approach this time. Its offerings are versions of open-source software developed in a consortium called OpenOffice.org. The original code traces its origins to a German company, Star Division, which Sun Microsystems bought in 1999. Sun later made the desktop software, now called StarOffice, an open-source project, in which work and code are freely shared." "I.B.M.'s engineers have been working with OpenOffice technology for some time. But last week, I.B.M. declared that it was formally joining the open-source group, had dedicated 35 full-time programmers to the project and would contribute code to the initiative." > It can take years to upseat 500 million Office users In homeroom, the kid next to me tried to upseat the girl in front of me She slapped me! "Upseat," indeed! -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
