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OpenOffice 3 launch timed perfectly but will Sun, IBM exploit opportunity?

Sun and IBM could not have asked for better timing for the launch of OpenOffice 3, a major upgrade of the open source office suite. Both vendors are preparing to ship commercial offerings of StarOffice and Symphony based on the new OO 3 release and have a...

Tags: Desktop, Sun Microsystems Inc., Microsoft Corp., Training, IBM Corp., Symphony 1.2, Conversion Tool, OpenOffice, StarOffice, Open Source, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-10-13

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Microsoft Office still owns the desktop, future of StarOffice unclear

Since the Oracle acquisition of Sun, there’s been no official word yet on the road map for Star Office. Oracle says it’s vision is to deliver an integrated system from applications to disk, ostensibly a commitment to an OpenOffice.org productivity suite. Yet, that’s not a foregone conclusion. Star Office was just...

Tags: Desktop, Oracle Corp., Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., OpenOffice.org, StarOffice, OpenOffice, Office Suites, Software, Sheri McLeish

Blog posts 2009-05-26

More on Sun vs. IBM

More on Sun vs. IBMRip Sun's head off and suck it's guts out!If this goes ahead It will be interesting to see what IBM retains. Adding SPARC to its x86/64 & POWER line up is not really viable. I was sorry when HP axed Alpha for sucky Itanic. Thanks Carly!...

Tags: Linux, UNIX, Operating systems, Servers, OPEN SOURCE, Sales force management, IBM Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Solaris

Discussion threads 2009-03-26

Microsoft is as troubled as the rest of us

Microsoft is as troubled as the rest of usYou can make money from open-souceBut you have to be making COMPLETE products, not just doing piecemeal pieces of applications and software packages.Unfortunately, you have to either be a big name Microsoft to do that, or have a lot of time on...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Corp., open source

Discussion threads 2009-03-25

Do we care if IBM buys Sun?

Do we care if IBM buys Sun?Not bad, but one key ingredient missingIBM and Sun have fought tooth and nail for years, for the a core motivation technology - over the supposed java-based Media framework, mainly the codecs. For some time in the early days, everything was cool with...

Tags: OpenOffice, Leadership, OPEN SOURCE, Java, Operating systems, IBM Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-03-19

Free and freer: Lotus Symphony could be your unsung hero

Everyone knows that if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Or is it? With its free productivity tools suite Symphony, IBM/Lotus is looking to shake things up a bit, putting even greater pressure on Microsoft's Office margin and besting Google and Zoho as the lowest-cost alternative....

Tags: Google Inc., IBM Corp., Lotus Symphony, Change Management, Productivity, Microsoft Office, Leadership, Tools & Techniques, Management, Office Suites, Software, Sheri McLeish

Blog posts 2009-01-27

WebEx goes mobile on iPhone; Notes 8.5 ships on Macs

MacWorld held two important announcements for collaboration professionals, especially those interested in multidevice future: 1. Lotus announced that Notes 8.5 is shipping on Macintoshes, specifically on the new Leopard version of OS X. And its open source office productivity suite, Symphony will be available in a few...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Macintosh, WebEx Communications Inc., Collaboration, Mobile, IBM Lotus Notes, Cisco Systems Inc., WebEx Meeting Center, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Ted Schadler

Blog posts 2009-01-07

IBM Linux-OpenOffice Desktop offering - history repeating

IBM Linux-OpenOffice Desktop offering - history repeatingOS/2 was the best OS...ever written at the time. It would still compete with anything MS has ever written. It was fast and you couldn't crash it. Even if you tried.You mention XP has its limitations. What are they?If anybody is planning on encroaching...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, desktop, IBM Corp., Linux, distro

Discussion threads 2008-12-09

Sun adds Apple native support to StarOffice 9

Sun adds Apple native support to StarOffice 9Or, Or, OrYou could wait for Symphony 1.2 final to be release and get it for free OR you could use OpenOffice.org 3.0 right now!

Tags: StarOffice 9, StarOffice, Sun Microsystems Inc., Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-11-17

What OpenOffice site crash means

What OpenOffice site crash meansSo, I should pay for free software so I don't pay Microsoft?It's not for everyone. However, the reason Microsoft has more robust features is because they spend more money on it. That money is funded by higher prices for their software. If you or your company...

Tags: OOA/OOD/OOP, object-oriented, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., OpenOffice, free software, Open Office Writer

Discussion threads 2008-10-14

From the vault: Lisa demo

From the vault: Lisa demoLisa @ Phoenix show 1983The Lisa was the Apple feature in the Phoenix Civic Center February 1983. Awesome .. until PRICE !! So, bought a 128 Mac (about $4,000), loved it 'til IBM 286 introduced in August with 6 Mhtz speed. Lotus...

Tags: Desktops, Lisa, Apple Macintosh

Discussion threads 2008-10-13

Singapore Radio 24 Stations 1 (Windows)

Introducing the Singapore Radio gadget with 24 stations of streaming digital radio. Simply click on the radio station you desire and play the live Internet stream. Don't pay for Web radio, when you can listen for free. BBC Asia, Bollywood, Capitol 95.8, Class 95, Club Play, Cruise, Chinese Evergreens, Gold...

Tags: Radio, Microsoft Windows, Sidebar Gadgets, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-10-10

Taking a Bott beating

My colleague Ed Bott, who writes the Windows column for ZDNet, takes issue with the problem solving approach that I used when I went about migrating my friend Christine's old PC over to Vista. From the nature of the talkbacks to that original post, I would...

Tags: PC, Ed Bott, USB, Christine, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Desktops, Hardware, Storage, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-09-23

From Chapter Two: The appliance computing culture

From Chapter Two: The appliance computing cultureOverbroadYou wrote:[The appliance computing culture's interactive] applications model drives almost everything, from processor and OS evolution to appropriate management structure - and even the conflicts with traditional business systems experts whose internal model of "automatic data processing" is broadly unrelated to the needs and...

Tags: Mainframes, Operating systems, Processors, business systems expert, appliance computing culture, mainframe, best practice, Windows PC

Discussion threads 2008-09-05

Office Ultimate 2007 for $16,014,000,000,000

Office Ultimate 2007 for $16,014,000,000,000termsThe second part of the terms are likely because some universities give their students lifetime access to their .edu email address. As long as they have graduated.Microsoft is going to find it very hard to keep Office Suite prices northof 50 bucks. Enterprises are not...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, allway, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, OpenOffice

Discussion threads 2008-08-25

Novell-Microsoft interop pact may look sweeter to IT shops these days

Novell-Microsoft interop pact may look sweeter to IT shops these daysOn the outside looking inIt's more like MS is on the outside looking in.Hyper-V is a proprietary lock-in solution. Xen, Citrix XenSource, SUN xVM, VMware all let IT run bare-metal Windows on Linux.It's a whole new ballgame."I am merely...

Tags: OpenOffice, OPEN SOURCE, Strategy, Hyper-V, information technology, Novell Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-08-20

A hard lesson in Internet values, and the Internet's value

A hard lesson in Internet values, and the Internet's valueThe answer is not simple and depends on multiple variables ...If we take all of the information available to us on the internet, and use it wisely (look at multiple resonses to our query, check out validity of those responses,...

Tags: Wiki, Internet, Wikipedia

Discussion threads 2008-06-06

Do we need two open source office suites?

Do we need two open source office suites?That Made Me Scratch My Head, TooMethinks Dana needs to go back and double-check his sources. And, by the way, StarOffice's roots actually go back much further than that: Star Division's StarWriter was first developed back in the mid-80's for CP/M. ...

Tags: OpenOffice, Linux, Word processors, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, open-source office suite, Symphony, StarOffice, Novell Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-06-05

Do we need two open source office suites?

Update: More on this story and the strikeouts here. The good people at IBM are proud that their IBM Lotus Symphony has hit Version 1.0. You can download it from here. It's free. There's free online support, and a host...

Tags: Corel WordPerfect, IBM Corp., Current Open Office, OpenOffice, Word Processors, Open Source, Office Suites, Software, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-06-05

Questioning IT

Questioning ITSome grammarYou have quite the run-on sentence (Basically if your organization ... — skills mismatch disaster.)You also need to remove negative words like fail (Windows skills don't carry forward to Linux, mainframe skills cause Solaris to fail.), and replace them with "pleasant sounding euphamisms" like "have difficulty" or "be...

Tags: Corporate governance, Strategy, information technology, corporate board, Enron Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-04-11