OpenOffice Is Dying (And IBM Won't Help)

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Submission + - OpenOffice Is Dying (And IBM Won't Help) (itworld.com)

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jfruhlinger

on Thursday October 13, 2011 @11:40AM

jfruhlinger writes: "OpenOffice.org, now separate both from corporate sponsor Oracle and the Document Foundation's LibreOffice, is in trouble, with Team OpenOffice putting out a dramatic press release detailing the organization's trouble. One missing player in all this is IBM, who has backed OpenOffice.org in the past. One possible reason for Big Blue's silence is that it might be a prelude to the killing of Lotus Symphony, its OpenOffice-based suite."

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