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IBM Donates Lotus Symphony Code To OpenOffice

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eWeek Europe; By Tom Jowitt 		Mail this story
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IBM is donating the source code of its Office suite (Lotus Symphony) to the OpenOffice project. IBM is looking to accelerate the development of open source software by donating the IBM Lotus Symphony source code to the Apache OpenOffice project. According to the IBM announcement, this is intended to provide this open source community with new capabilities, “further accelerating the development of the OpenOffice platform.”

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Fettoosh ·
Quoting:Last month a poll of eWEEK Europe UK readers found that most still favour Microsoft Office, though open source office suites made a atrong showing – as did the cloud-based Google Docs.


The way I understand most is "The majority of; nearly all of". But this chart shows otherwise

http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/poll...

http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/news/microsoft-office-still-rul...

21% compared to 32% is not bad at all for a product that is trying to unlock many users who have been under MS Office control for many years. If OOO/LO had decent marketing resources, MS Office wouldn't enjoy the higher percentage.

Beside, this is a poll in a country where BillyG was knighted by its queen. I say it is not bad at all especially when LO has made strong improvement over OOo in a very short time already.



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