On 09/18/2007 04:11 PM, James Knott wrote: > Fred A. Miller wrote: >> IBM MAKES U-TURN, JOINS OPENOFFICE >> Jeff Kelly, Associate Editor >> >> OpenOffice enjoyed a jolt of adrenaline this week as IBM announced >> Monday that it will join the open source software initiative. >> Analysts say the move should give OpenOffice a significant boost in >> its quest to take on Microsoft Office, but will it be enough? >> http://go.techtarget.com/r/2213079/1461419 >> >> > They also appear to have updated Lotus Smart Suite to ODF and released > it as Symphony, with both Linux and Windows versions. > http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony/home.jspa. It appears > more and more companies are supporting ODF. What about WordPerfect? > They were supposed to support ODF. > >
The links on OOo provide some good/interesting info regarding the IBM announcement: http://www.openoffice.org/ 11 Sep. Interview: Doug Heintzman, IBM 18 Sep. IBM's Symphonic OOo The Heintzman interview is a most interesting read: http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=2007091108390229 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
