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- schestowitz, on 10/10/2007, -2/+38Although it might not be formal, it's likely that everyone (with the exception of Microsoft Corp.) praises this move.
- daftman, on 10/10/2007, -2/+25Since both the title and the summary mention Red Hat, it's safe to assumed that you're a moron who have hidden agenda against Ubuntu. What worse than having Ubuntu fanboy is having an anti-Ubuntu fanboy.
- Trigon15, on 10/10/2007, -0/+22Having IBM help Open Office can only be a good thing, this move will make Open Office a better product. Lets hope that more companies join the open office team.
- Alex2, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12Back in the 90's, I really liked the look of Lotus Notes.
Hopefully they will bring things that fix the usability issues of OO.
Now, to only get the people in my company to switch from Office 97. (seriously) - jshabad00, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12comment makes it sound like OOo is called OO. buried.
- toggo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5What are YOU talking about?
- ubuntuedgy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Me thinks MS is in trouble in a few more years. Google free online office solutions, free OS's that are getting more functional and easier to use every day (Ubuntu, Fedora, etc.), a new generation of people growing up that are certainly more tech savvy that their parents...
I don't want to make predictions, but the coming years should be curious to watch, technology wise. - macewan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4This is a good thing in helping decision makers recognize legitimate software options. Rural areas like Washington, NC recognize names like IBM whereas Sun might not ring a bell.
- airstrike, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Digg this up if you don't!
- flashingcurser, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3This is a fine example of how open source business model works. With a small (by comparison) amount of development money, they can have a product that will meet their "office" needs. Far less than the price of licenses for MS Office for each employee. Think of it this way, for large companies that are not in the business of selling office suites, if they all "pitch in" some development cost they can have an excellent product for a fraction of the price of a commercial product. They also get a large number of very technical beta testers which, for the most part, are happy to help improve the product because they didn't pay for it. One last benefit, if the beta tester is a programmer he not only can send in a bug report, but he can also send in the patch to fix it. I don't see how IBM can loose.
- KIERANMULLEN, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Meanwhile Sun the originators of StarOffice (where openoffice came from) goes buddy buddy with Microsoft
Sun to ship Microsoft Windows Server on its hardware
http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9777043-7.html
"Longtime rivals and occasional collaborators Sun Microsystems and Microsoft announced on Wednesday that Sun will ship 64-bit servers with Microsoft's Windows Server 2003 operating system." - schoate09, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Good, maybe with some corporate help, OOo won't suck as much, and will be able to compete with Microsoft Office. I'd love OOo to be as god as MS Office, so their monopoly on that can end, but it has a LONG way to go.
- sdigroup, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2great news. more power to open source
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Neo Office?
- mancubus220, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I dunno about back then, but I can't stand Lotus Notes as it is now.
- airstrike, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1no it doesn't?
- UltraMegaFilms, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Anyone want to talk about IBM's poor business tactics and employee relations, or are we just talking about MS? While MS is responsible for a startling amount of charity, IBM outsources and gets rid of thousands and thousands of American jobs. You would think that reputation would be bad news for the OO community.
- phytonix, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2OOo does not even really support Mac. At least M$ Office have REAL Mac version. No wonder OOo is not gaining much for all these years.
- phaed, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1You forget. IBM was what Microsoft is now.
- djauto23, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Well, actually I do, I just couldn't stop myself from making that comment.
- jamesmaxwell, on 10/10/2007, -2/+0Will OO get even better? everyone already uses office but this will run beside and is 90% transparent with office, its free! i do hope it does not loose the open source ethics along with the merge.
- tokenring3, on 10/10/2007, -2/+0This test is for digg.com, not Open Office - which I admire for the most part.
- tokenring3, on 10/10/2007, -3/+0Documents like a resume, corrupted out upon trial. Ver. 2.0.0
And, not mine. You want honesty or BS, take your pick. I'm all old school with text and all. - talgo, on 10/10/2007, -4/+1Up until September 2007 IBM has contributed absolutely nothing to OpenOffice and supported Microsoft Office..
- tokenring3, on 10/10/2007, -4/+0Testing, as always, a thing I do.
- tokenring3, on 10/10/2007, -6/+0Good for them. About time M$ had some serious competition. Now if it could only open XML and save documents in something like Microsoft Office and cost nothing, it would be perfect. OpensMS documents? Yep. Nice office pack... Does math too. Very tempting.
- tokenring3, on 10/10/2007, -6/+0Always taking testing a step further. Sorry, it's one of the things I do.
- EserVerx, on 10/10/2007, -10/+0should have kept a small partition with vista on it so they wouldnt know >_>
still, i agree thats ***** up. - djauto23, on 10/10/2007, -11/+0The irony: Everyone uses M$ Office.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -36/+1description makes it sound like OO is only distributed with ubuntu. buried.
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