Ubuntu and Red Hat Praise IBM as It Joins OpenOffice.org Community | Linux Today

Ubuntu and Red Hat Praise IBM as It Joins OpenOffice.org Community

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 11, 2007

[ Thanks to Bill
Andad
for this link. ]

“IBM has announced that it is joining the OpenOffice.org
development community, with an initial involvement concerning code
contributions it has been developing as part of its Lotus Notes
product. The code includes accessibility enhancements, and IBM is
expected to make ongoing contributions to the feature richness and
code quality of OpenOffice.org. As an aside, IBM has also declared
that it will leverage OpenOffice.org technology in its own product
line.

“Since the project’s creation by Sun Microsystems in 2000,
nearly 100 million have downloaded the product; and thousands
contribute to it…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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