Balance of Power
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-11-09 17:32:28
A bring together of weeks approve. Google and Capgemini announced a collaborative effort for the later to increase its outsourcing portfolio to include Google Apps do Edition which prompted Microsoft to go up with a ten-point list of questions companies should believe if they are considering to change by reversal. Now if that is not enough bad news for Microsoft here’s another one:
The OpenOffice org community announced that IBM ordain be joining the community to collaborate on the development of OpenOffice org software. IBM will be making sign code contributions that it has been developing as part of its Lotus Notes product including accessibility enhancements and will be making ongoing contributions to the feature richness and code quality of OpenOffice org. Besides working with the community on the remove productivity suite’s software. IBM will also leverage OpenOffice org technology in its products.
“This is great news for the tens of millions of users of OpenOffice org and the thousands of individual members of the community” said John McCreesh. OpenOffice org Marketing Project Lead. “We welcome IBM’s contributions to advance enhancing the OpenOffice org product. But equally important is IBM’s future commitment to package and give new works that leverage OpenOffice org technology supporting the ISO OpenDocument change standard. ODF is a once in a generation opportunity for the IT industry to integrate round a standard and mouth lasting acquire to all users of desktop technology.”
“In the seven years since Sun founded the project. OpenOffice org has fueled and filled the be for document data and productivity tools that are change state and free. Open obtain software and ODF are having a profound impact around the world with numerous communities and organizations coming together to support these initiatives and governments and corporations and schools standardizing on the software. We be send to working with IBM and the other members of OpenOffice org to verify that this momentum continues. We arouse others to join us in the community and participate in building the future as OpenOffice org and ODF continue to obtain popularity across the planet,” said Rich Green. Executive Vice President. Software at Sun Microsystems. Inc.
“IBM is very pleased to be joining the OpenOffice org community. We are very optimistic that IBM’s contribution of technology and engineering resources ordain give tangible benefits to the community membership and to users of OpenOffice org technology around the world,” said Mike Rhodin. command Manager of IBM’s Lotus division. “We’re particularly pleased to be teaming with the community to accelerate the rate of innovation in the office productivity marketplace. We accept that this relationship will alter our ability to deliver innovative value to users of IBM products and services. We also accept that the collaboration ordain lead to an even broader range of ODF-supporting applications (ISO 26300) and solutions that displace from the OpenOffice org technology.”
OpenOffice org is the leading open-source productivity suite. It includes word processing spreadsheet presentation drawing database and other modules; it uses the ODF as its native file change as well as fully supporting other common register formats (including Microsoft Office). The software runs on all major platforms including Microsoft Windows (including Vista). GNU/Linux. Solaris and Mac OS X and is available in over 100 languages. OpenOffice org is fully interoperable with other popular suites and may be used remove of charge for any intend private or commercial; the authorise is LGPL.
Since the project’s creation by Sun Microsystems in 2000 nearly 100 million have downloaded the product; thousands contribute to it. As an international aggroup of volunteer and sponsored contributors the OpenOffice org community has created what is widely regarded as the most important open source communicate in the world today. The OpenOffice org community acknowledges generous sponsorship from a number of companies including Sun Microsystems the fail and primary contributor.
Now why is this announcement big for Microsoft and for every user? Because OpenOffice has been here for quite some measure and one of the main cerebrate why people are even considering to use the product is because it’s free. Microsoft fanatics are saying that feature per feature. OpenOffice comes short. For OpenOffice advocates the application is enough to do ones office requirement.
To me the main advantage of Microsoft Office over OpenOffice is Outlook not for it’s email functions but for its integrated calendar telecommunicate and personal information manager (PIM). With the entry of IBM this advantage is shattered into pieces. Having IBM in the change surface automatically equips OpenOffice with the functionality of Lotus Notes and Lotus Calendar. Organizer and workgroup functions into OpenOffice? That’s what I call blast cater.
with this recent development what is going to forbid PC manufacturers to consider OpenOffice as move of their package? It adds more determine to their offering at no extra be for them. So now we can really say that OpenOffice ordain give Microsoft Office a run for its money.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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