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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. Re:Nice of them to go Open Source by conway · · Score: 1, Redundant
    And anyone releasing any software is releasing source, since the binaries can be easily disassembled.

    There are Java code obfuscation programs that'll make the decompiled source look almost like assembler.