As Punishment for OOXML Scandals Looms, Microsoft Starts Playing Politics | Linux Today

As Punishment for OOXML Scandals Looms, Microsoft Starts Playing Politics

Written By
RS
Roy Schestowitz
Jun 5, 2008

“The pressure is up for Microsoft Office to cope with. Yesterday
we wrote about the press release from IBM, which covered the latest
swing at Microsoft Office and Exchange. Now comes this article
which sheds some more light on these moves from Big Blue.

“Dubbed the IBM Lotus Foundations Start, this is a turnkey
solution running on Linux that can get a business’s infrastructure
up and running within 30 minutes, according to the company.

This comes at an interesting time and probably not by coincidence.
IBM’s Lotus Symphony has just hit the important 1.0
milestone…”

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Roy Schestowitz

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