[SATLUG] IBM jumps behind OpenOffice

[afcasta at texas.net]

Good to see they're still on the track they started when they agreed to host
development for the postfix MTA.  Most of their entries in
http://www.top500.org , including the fastest supercomputer, are built around
Linux [1].  If they could get Blue Gene/L's level of performance out of AIX,
I'm sure they would have.

[1] http://www.llnl.gov/asc/computing_resources/bluegenel/systemsoftware.html

Al Castanoli

Quoting Victor <victor.trevino at gmail.com>:

> Not too surprising. IBM's been doing open source work for quite a while
> now.
> 
> On 9/18/07, Borries Demeler <demeler at biochem.uthscsa.edu> wrote:
> > 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
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