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ZDNet: Clearing the Air on IBM Workplace-OpenOffice.org Connection

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Apr 29, 2005

“Yesterday’s blog entry by Joe Brockmeier about why he found the
comments reported to have been made by Sun officials to be petty
politics has drawn a response from Sun’s Simon Phipps as well as a
clarification to a blog I wrote on the issue from Open Source Diva
Danese Cooper (formerly of Sun, now with Intel). It has also
flushed out some clarity over a connection that exists between
IBM’s Lotus Workplace and OpenOffice.org (OO.o)…”

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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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