From the ‘Goodbye Lotus Symph
ony‘ files:
If anyone had any real doubt, IBM is the one solid reason why OpenOffice still exits. Linux distros big and small have all left for the superior open source experience that is LibreOffice, yet IBM is stuck in the past.
In a blog posting announcing the end of Lotus Symphony, IBM explained that Open Office is the future (as it was the past too for them since Symphony was an openoffice fork)
“Our energy from here is going into the Apache OpenOffice project, and we expect to distribute an “IBM edition” of Apache OpenOffice in the future,” Ed Brill, Director, Lotus Software, IBM Software Group blogged.
But there is a problem – since Apache OpenOffice isn’t quite the same as what Lotus users have been used to in the past.
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