:IBM Lotus Symphony Turns Old Ooo Code Into Enterprise Judas Goat
IBM Lotus Symphony Turns Old Ooo Code Into Enterprise Judas Goat Jun 11, 2008, 17 :15 UTC (1 Talkback[s]) (6373 reads) (Other stories by Mayank Sharma)
"Oracle and now IBM seem to have strange ideas about creating a business around open source software for the enterprise. First it was Oracle's Unbreakable Linux program, derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux sans its proprietary bits and supported for peanuts to beat RHEL and similar community projects such as CentOS. Now it's IBM, which has taken old OpenOffice.org code under the now-retired Sun Industry Standards Source License and released it as a proprietary closed source freeware office suite. The first stable release of IBM Lotus Symphony, released last week, has no obvious advantages over OpenOffice.org. The suite is targeted at enterprise customers, at the expense of free and open source alternatives.
"There are three clear giveaways that IBM is gunning for the enterprise desktop with Lotus Symphony..."
