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A Report from LinuxForum 2006 (Groklaw)

Posted Mar 12, 2006 21:29 UTC (Sun) by stock (subscriber, #5849)
Parent article: A Report from LinuxForum 2006 (Groklaw)

inside the presentation by Andreas Pleschek from IBM recently at
LinuxForum, Copenhagen its reported that another noteworthy action of
IBM's part is the contract cancellation with Microsoft. That's the really
significant thing and shows just how much IBM really is committed to
eating their own dog food, i.e. FLOSS.

The cancellation is sofar not really reported elsewhere, like in
BusinessWeek, eWeek, news.com, CNN, FOX or MSNBC. THAT'S NEWS in
itself. So keep your eyes focused on this one, because, as always the
real news which matter, ain't reported in MainStream press.

IBM dumps MS Office and Windows :

http://www-5.ibm.com/nl/businessforum/presentaties/IBM_an...

http://www.linuxforum.dk/2006/video/LinuxForum-20060303-1...

Cheers,

Robert


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A Report from LinuxForum 2006 (Groklaw)

Posted Mar 12, 2006 21:52 UTC (Sun) by stock (subscriber, #5849) [Link]

SUN and IBM join the ODF (Open Document Format) Alliance :

http://www.odfalliance.org/about.html

This means that IBM has canceled the MS Office contract.

Robert

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