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[News] Linux Office Suite (Symphony) with ODF Goes Beyond Microsoft Office

  • Subject: [News] Linux Office Suite (Symphony) with ODF Goes Beyond Microsoft Office
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 10:23:08 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
IBM to take Lotus Symphony apps 'Beyond Office'

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| ODF is now an international standard and being considered or favored by the 
| large customers, notably national governments concerned with long-term 
| archiving of digital information.   
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9857384-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20


Related:

IBM`s New Linux-Based Notes and Symphony Office

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| IBM opens the door for Linux-based servers and desktops with a new Lotus 
| Notes and Symphony bundle for SUSE, Red Hat and Ubuntu Linux. 
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http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Enterprise-Apps/IBMs-New-Linux-Based-Notes-and-Symphony-Office/


IBM Offers Collaboration Support for Ubuntu

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| IBM today announced that it will offer an integrated Open Collaboration 
| Client Solution with support for Ubuntu, a Linux-based operating system from 
| Canonical Ltd. that is especially popular for desktops, laptops and thin 
| clients.   
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http://www.ebizq.net/news/8847.html?rss


IBM Translates Lotus Symphony for a Globally Integrated World

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| Lotus Symphony is a suite of software tools for creating text, spreadsheet 
| and presentation documents -- the most frequently used desktop tools -- based 
| on OpenOffice code. It supports the OpenDocument format (ODF), Microsoft 
| Office and Lotus SmartSuite formats.   
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http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/marketwire/0350350.htm


Microsoft's Lotus FUD Tools

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| It's Lotusphere in Orlando, Fla,, and Microsoft just can't resist playing 
| spoiler to IBM announcements—software-as-a-service offerings for SMBs, new 
| forthcoming Domino and Notes features, and software collaboration agreement 
| with SAP.    
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http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/messaging_collaboration/news_briefs_12208.html?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535


The Standard Trolls

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| It is hard to resolve the pecking order of posters in the Microsoft blogger 
| echo chamber. So let's just remark that all the usual suspects assisted in 
| this one: Doug Mahugh, Stephen McGibbon, Oliver Bell, Gray Knowlton, etc. Mix 
| together, shake, repeat, turn the crank and presto! Out comes news.   
| 
| [...]
| 
| By analogy to patent trolls, what we're seeing here is the behavior of a 
| standards troll -- defining a conformance clause so vague that everything in 
| the world is considered to support it, and then searching through 
| competitor's web sites in hopes of finding some place where they stumbled 
| into supporting it, and then trying to extract some advantage from it.    
| 
| The point should be to look for examples of where OOXML is supported to the 
| highest degree, to point out the best examples of high-fidelity interchange 
| that your standard allowed. You would think that with so many people at 
| Microsoft with "interoperability" in their job titles, that this would be 
| obvious. I guess not. But don't be sad. You can always count 
| on "supportadmin3" to cheer you up!!!     
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http://www.robweir.com/blog/2008/01/standard-trolls.html

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