Competition for Microsoft & Co.: Mindquarry Forms Up With an Open Source Team
Software
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| Launch for a user friendly and easy to use teamwork software: since
| Feb. 28th 2007, Mindquarry offers the first Open Source alternative
| to Microsoft's Sharepoint Server or IBM's Lotus Connections.
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http://www.pr-inside.com/competition-for-microsoft-amp-co-r58135.htm
Sharepoint is a Windows/Office lockin that has a viral nature in the
enterprise, much like the use/corruption of Web standards, or
network/protocols for exchange and sharing.
Related:
Microsoft: An unfortunate return to its roots?
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| All I wanted was to visit a website and click-through to read customer
| case studies. Perhaps these would automatically load up in Word 2007 if
| I had it (but I don't, because Microsoft will be a bit slow in
| delivering Office for the Mac). And perhaps that would be really
| cool. But today it just feels annoying - like a basic "right" has
| been taken from me so as to extend Microsoft's dominance of the
| desktop to the web.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2006/12/microsoft_an_un.html
OpenOffice extension rivals SharePoint
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| The O3OSpaces server is a J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition) application,
| built on top of Apache Tomcat and the PostgreSQL database server. The
| web client uses AJAX, while the Assistant client program is a Java Web
| Start application.
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| Besides StarOffice and OpenOffice.org, companies can use O3Spaces with
| Microsoft Office documents. "While O3Spaces is developed for use with
| OpenOffice.org/StarOffice, it can handle Microsoft Office documents
| equally well," stated O3Spaces B.V. CEO Rob Mentink. "This is crucial
| for companies and users that work in mixed environments."
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http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS3513176830.html
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