IBM Wants to Port Office to Linux

shfted! writes "OSNews reports: As part of its initiative to put Linux on the desktop, IBM Corp. wants to migrate Microsoft Corp.'s Office suite to Linux. Microsoft said it's not involved and suggests that IBM might do it by emulation."

*ahem*

[Rhinobird]

Big Bleu cheese and WINE?

Cool

[Anonymous Coward]

Last one using windows is a rotten egg!

Does...

[sparklingfruit]

Does this mean we'll finally get clippy?

WOOHOO!

Oh, I see

[Anonymous Coward]

Microsoft needs a way to sell massive mainframes running Linux, so they're porting over the biggest, most resource using, application ever: Microsoft Office.

well....

[xao gypsie]

they certainly wouldn't need to do it by emulation should there be another source leak....*cough*

Hello

[Anonymous Coward]

It looks like you are trying to build your kernel, would you like me to help?

Re:I hope they don't....

[0x0d0a]

I have to agree. WINE is cool, but not a solution for the general public. I don't think it ever will be, just by nature of the project.

Of course, if they do a native release, then they have several widget sets to choose from:

1) GTK/GNOME -- piss off the KDE adherents.

2) Qt/KDE -- piss off the GNOME adherents.

3) Proprietary a la OpenOffice -- piss off everyone and have graphical glitches and be slow.

sourcecode please?

[Anonymous Coward]

Can someone who has the sourcecode to MS Office please post it on the internet? Thanks.

Re:Why ?

[Anonymous Coward]

Does Open Office have Clippy? I think not!

Anyone else notice...

[}InFuZeD{]

These IBM and Microsoft Reps must come pre-made or something... Petterson... Perrson... come on, too many similarities there. They must buy from the same company.

Re:Hoax?

[Troed]

We can actually use "their", "there" and "they're" correctly which means our English skills surpass those of most US citizens ...

Re: Does...

[Black Parrot]

> Does this mean we'll finally get clippy?

"I see you're trying to port me to an unauthorized platform."

Re:Just re-implement it in India...

[Bull999999]

If those Indian programmers are as good as Indian tech support, the Office software they create will be loaded with bugs and full of security holes... That will be a perfect port after all.

Crossover Office problems with Clippy !

[killmister]

Yee, but I cannot live without Clippy. From CodeWeavers site: "One thing that does not quite work though is Clippy. While it runs well enough for a screenshot it will cause Word to misbehave. This is why it is disabled by default."

Re:Oh, I see

[MichaelGCD]

Her name is Monica, you insensitive clod!

lol

[KaizerWill]

ibm will probably just steal the MS office code like they stole that SCO code...

*wink*

Re:*ahem*

[Anonymous Coward]

Besides one can argue, that running things trough wine is not really emulation in the sense of CPU emulation.

It's strange how few people realise that Wine is not emulation. But then there are folk out there that think GNU is Unix, so it just goes to show... er... something.

Re:Why could IBM do better than OpenOffice.org

[Anonymous Coward]

Wait unti you see the IBM Emacs commercials coming out this spring. In 3 years, nobody will even remember vi.

Re:Will Microsoft Sabotage?

[pherris]

Will Microsoft try to sabotage this by "upgrading" Office

Back in the days of M$-DOS and Lotus 1-2-3 there was a saying in Redmond:"DOS ain't done 'til Lotus won't run".

I always wanted to do this

[Anonymous Coward]

kill -9 `ps -ef | grep -i clippy | awk '{print $2}'`

Re:Why could IBM do better than OpenOffice.org

[arose]

1) Escape
2) Meta
3) Alt
4) ???
5) Shift

You found the missing step! Woohoo!

Re:Yes, it does.

[lordholm]

And equally annoying!

Astronomy 1&1: Size of Sun

[benja]

"It suits us fine the Microsoft and Sun fight about office application suites. We stay away from that. The reason we don't collaborate with Sun is that they're too small," said Pettersson.

Astronomy 1&1: The sun only looks so small, because it is so far away.

In fact, it's rather large!

Re:Why ?

[77Punker]

Make a port with KDE integration and we can enjoy Klippy!

Re:Why ?

[villy]

FoxPro!! (ducks for cover...)

Re:I always wanted to do this

[The Whinger]

"You seem to be trying to kill me - can I help?"