IBM Policy Switches From MS Office To OO.o

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."

Comments

Ooo's

[ironicsky]

All these Oo.o's remind me of family guy

Peter: Oh my God, Brian, there's a message in my alphabets... it says Ooooo!
Brian: Peter those are Cheerios.
Sound Clip

Microsoft Bob reborn?

[ClosedSource]

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

[TheRaven64]

Was this the result of a focus group reporting that OO.o was too fast?

Re:Symphony vs OO

[zlogic]

It uses 200+ megs of RAM just after starting. Take that, Firefox!

Re:Symphony vs OO

[zlogic]

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.