IBM Policy Switches From MS Office To OO.o 331
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timothy
from the let's-see-some-school-districts-do-the-same dept.
from the let's-see-some-school-districts-do-the-same dept.
eldavojohn writes "It's frequent that we hear of a country or city or company switching from Windows to Linux, but it's rare that we hear of one third of a million employees being told to use Lotus Symphony (IBM's OO.o variant) over MS Office, and also to use the Open Document Format when saving files. The change has been mandated to take place in the next 10 days. Of course, they are doing this to illustrate that they actually offer a full-fledged alternative to Microsoft. With i4i stirring stuff up against MS Office and absolving OO.o from litigation, are we on the verge of a potential break from Microsoft's dominant document suite? Hopefully IBM supports OO.o past Sun's acquisition by Oracle instead of concentrating on Lotus Symphony."
OOoh (Score:2, Funny)
Ooo's (Score:5, Funny)
Peter: Oh my God, Brian, there's a message in my alphabets... it says Ooooo!
Brian: Peter those are Cheerios.
Sound Clip [entertonement.com]
Microsoft Bob reborn? (Score:5, Funny)
I guess they felt they should get something from the acquisition of Lotus Symphony so that's what they call their version of OpenOffice. Perhaps Microsoft should offer their own version of OO and call it "Microsoft Bob".
Re:Symphony vs OO (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Ooo's (Score:3, Funny)
Yeah, at first I thought Oo.o is the sound a giraffe makes when it cums. //Not a troll. //Yes, this is a ripoff of an old Russian joke about the letter Ñ.
Re:Symphony vs OO (Score:5, Funny)
It uses 200+ megs of RAM just after starting. Take that, Firefox!
Re:Symphony vs OO (Score:5, Funny)
Perhaps IBM want their regular employees to kick Team Eclipse's ass until they make it fast.
Or make people quit out of frustration instead of laying them off.
Cunning... (Score:3, Funny)
...one third of a million employees being told to use Lotus Symphony...
This is actually an ingenious way for IBM to stress test its hardware - a third of a million internal Symphony bug reports all hitting the server at the same time. Beat that, Oracle.
Re:In my dreams (Score:1, Funny)
In my dreams, Microsoft Word got replaced by a word processor that naturally creates beautiful documents, that lays them out consistently every time you open them (and between versions), and has a simple easy to use interface.
Really? My dreams have naked cheerleaders. I think you need to retrain your subconscious.
Shouldn't that be (Score:3, Funny)
\begin{cough}
\LaTeX
\end{cough}
Re:OpenOffice variant? (Score:3, Funny)
Greetings and Salutations...
Well, as an example of this....QUITE a few years ago, right after college, a good buddy of mine got a job with IBM. The FIRST day on the job he had to copy some documents. Well, he walked to the front of the cube farm and in a loud voice asked "where is the Xerox machine!". It got quiet enough in the cube farm to hear a pin drop...Kind of like that great scene in every Western where the stranger walks into the saloon and even the piano music stops! One of the managers on the floor informed him in no uncertain terms where the THERMOFAX machine was located...
He really thought at first that his career at IBM was going to last about three hours!
Regards
Dave Mundt