From: "Dave Ings" 

Office is a fact of life, and it will take a serious "disruptive"
technology to displace it. Open source folks had better just get over this.

At this point Microsoft's biggest Office problem seems to be competing with
itself - everything I read suggests most customers are perfectly happy with
Office 2K and Office XP.

The comment below is beyond silly, if the quote is accurate. When IBM
acquired Lotus, it acquired for Notes and SmartSuite was already on life
support. The spokesperson must be an industry newbie with no memory.
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Regards,
Dave Ings,
Toronto, Canada

"Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
news:3f48322a{at}w3.nls.net...
> from http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/32461.html
>
> IBM dismisses OpenOffice as child's play
>

>
> What does Sun think of IBM's dismissal of OpenOffice?
>
> "I think that is pretty funny coming from a company that led the office
> suite revolution with Lotus 123," said Peder Ulander *, a director of
> marketing at Sun. "That product basically doesn't exist anymore. They had
> their shot at the office suite and didn't make it."
>

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