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IBM To Publish Java Office Suite

Posted by timothy on from the what-if-the-network's-down dept.

prostoalex writes "The Big Blue will bundle J2EE-based word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation graphics applications in its WebSphere portal. What's more interesting is that the package is server-side, with functionality of the application being delivered to the user over the network. Both CRN (linked above) and The Register considered that a major move against MSFT."

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  1. The computer is the network... by product+byproduct · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    and when the network is down, your computer is down too. Why does IBM have to jump in the same broken bandwagon as Sun?

  2. This is a return to 1980 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Terminals and central mainframes were king in those days. IBM told bussiness users that centrally managed systems were cheaper to operate and less complex then thousands of pc's. They in return switched to pc's.

    First it was dumb terminals then network computers and now this. Its dead give it up.

  3. Wonderful. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The bloat of any even semi-featureful office suite, combined with the horrible, piggish slowness and ugliness of a Java app.

    I'll bet this suite is going to be a great-looking, absolute SPEED-DEMON.

    And what about MS Office compatibility? Hmm? Even Openoffice/Staroffice has this, so IBM damn well better have it too, especially since they're bigger than Sun or the parents'-basement hacker community ever could be. And some 95% of the world uses MS Office for their office work, so this is an absolute must.

    And XML. That's the buzzword of the last 3 years, so regardless of whether it's just the crappy vastly-overhyped format that it really is, IBM's office suite must have it too.

    (/me is pissed IBM didn't hire him)

  4. this is going to be fast!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    the speed of java! holy crap!!