IBM To Support OpenDocument Next Year 107
An anonymous reader writes "IBM announced this weekend that early next year it will begin supporting the OpenDocument standard in its WorkPlace line of products. They're planning on pushing this widely accessible format and their products in developing nations." From the article: "Rather than create an analog to Microsoft Office, IBM is offering editors for creating documents, spreadsheets or presentations within a Web browser. Documents are delivered via a Web portal and stored in shared directories. Access control and document management tools allow people to share and edit documents with others. Until now, Workplace supported the formats from open-source product OpenOffice, from which the OpenDocument was derived. Workplace Managed Client software also can read, write and edit documents created with Microsoft Office."
Yeah (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Yeah (Score:3, Funny)
Do you by chance work for Microsoft?
Re:The legacy of saving everything in MS Office (Score:2, Funny)
I too prefer an abacus. Though I get weird looks walking around the grocery store carrying my shopping list and my abacus......
Re:Strategy (Score:3, Funny)
Not really. I regularly open documents written in Wordperfect 5.1 in Word.
Re:Are open documents really an issue? (Score:1, Funny)
Then you will have no problem implementing a
Re:The legacy of saving everything in MS Office (Score:3, Funny)