[SATLUG] IBM jumps behind OpenOffice

[Borries Demeler]

In today's NYTimes:

I.B.M. to Offer Office Software Free in Challenge to
Microsoft's Line
By STEVE LOHR
The company plans to announce the creation of I.B.M. Lotus
Symphony, free programs for word processing, spreadsheets
and presentations.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/18/technology/18blue.html?th&emc=th

Quote:
"I.B.M.'s engineers have been working with OpenOffice technology for
some time. But last week, I.B.M. declared that it was formally joining
the open-source group, had dedicated 35 full-time programmers to the
project and would contribute code to the initiative."


-Borries